7:55 AM
Many ways to backup a Gmail account, one with the normal method used backup method called POP3. Here are some tips to download, install, configure and Mozilla Thunderbird for mem-backup Gmail messages.
Gmail settings
* Login to Gmail. Click "Settings" in the upper right corner.
* Click the tab or link "Forwarding and Pop."
* Click "Enable Pop for all mail."
* Click on the window that any steps No.2, and click "Keep Gmail's copy in the inbox" from the drop down menu.
* Click "Save Chages." This will tell Gmail to send email from your Gmail account to another mail client
, including the Thunderbird. Do not worry, the confidentiality of your email remains protected by a password and username of your account.
Installing Thunderbird
* Download the Thunderbird in http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
* Double click on Setup Thunderbird X. XX (X is the version number)
* Screen is the first welcome screen of the setup Thunderbird setup, click Next.
* Read the agreement in the next screen, click "I accept", click Next. Click next again.
* Click Finish
* If you use Microsoft Outlook on your computer, then you will be given the option to import existing settings, select "Yes" if you want a new mail client with the same settings with the previous, and then click next.
* Select Next and scary at the end of the screen. You do not need to change the default settings and RSS mail, unless you want to use Thunderbird for regular mail and RSS reader.
Setting Thunderbird
* Entrance to the Thunderbird mail, click Tools> Account Settings. Add Account and the left. Click Email Accounts, and click Next.
* Enter the name and complete address with Gmail, click Next.
* Select POP and type pop.gmail.com for the incoming server. You do not need to fill the outgoing server as a backup of your use of Gmail. Click Next.
* Type your Gmail email address in the address of incoming and outgoing email you, and click Next. Click Next and Finish.
* Click left pane section titled "Server Settings".
* On the right, select the type and SSL port 995 for you and your other options are semi-optional.
* I get mail from Thunderbird. Hundreds of messages will acquire up to full backups, and backups will stop when you close Thunderbird.
Gmail settings
* Login to Gmail. Click "Settings" in the upper right corner.
* Click the tab or link "Forwarding and Pop."
* Click "Enable Pop for all mail."
* Click on the window that any steps No.2, and click "Keep Gmail's copy in the inbox" from the drop down menu.
* Click "Save Chages." This will tell Gmail to send email from your Gmail account to another mail client
, including the Thunderbird. Do not worry, the confidentiality of your email remains protected by a password and username of your account.
Installing Thunderbird
* Download the Thunderbird in http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
* Double click on Setup Thunderbird X. XX (X is the version number)
* Screen is the first welcome screen of the setup Thunderbird setup, click Next.
* Read the agreement in the next screen, click "I accept", click Next. Click next again.
* Click Finish
* If you use Microsoft Outlook on your computer, then you will be given the option to import existing settings, select "Yes" if you want a new mail client with the same settings with the previous, and then click next.
* Select Next and scary at the end of the screen. You do not need to change the default settings and RSS mail, unless you want to use Thunderbird for regular mail and RSS reader.
Setting Thunderbird
* Entrance to the Thunderbird mail, click Tools> Account Settings. Add Account and the left. Click Email Accounts, and click Next.
* Enter the name and complete address with Gmail, click Next.
* Select POP and type pop.gmail.com for the incoming server. You do not need to fill the outgoing server as a backup of your use of Gmail. Click Next.
* Type your Gmail email address in the address of incoming and outgoing email you, and click Next. Click Next and Finish.
* Click left pane section titled "Server Settings".
* On the right, select the type and SSL port 995 for you and your other options are semi-optional.
* I get mail from Thunderbird. Hundreds of messages will acquire up to full backups, and backups will stop when you close Thunderbird.
11:14 AM
Tables can be embedded in emails easily. If a Thunderbird user receives an email that contains a table he is up for a problem though. It does not matter how he tries to copy the table or selected parts of it because the end result will always be that the formatting is lost. There is no way to copy a table from Thunderbird into Microsoft Excel or similar applications and retain the rows and columns of that table.
Table 2 Clipboard is a Thunderbird extension that adds this much needed feature to Thunderbird. The extension can be used to copy a table or part of it to the clipboard retaining the format of it. Pasting that data into a spreadsheet will put the data into rows and columns just like the original data was.
The add-on has to be downloaded from Mozilla and installed using the Tools > Addons menu in Thunderbird. A click on Install in that menu will open a file browser where the downloaded extension has to be selected.
The extension adds two entries to the right-click context menu. The first is always available which will copy the whole table to the clipboard. The second is only available when CTRL-selecting table cells to copy only those selected cells to the clipboard. A shortcut CTRL Shift C is also available to copy selected table cells to the clipboard.
The Thunderbird extension could be useful for Thunderbird users who regularly receive tables in their emails that are embedded in the message’s body and not attached in separate files.
Table 2 Clipboard is a Thunderbird extension that adds this much needed feature to Thunderbird. The extension can be used to copy a table or part of it to the clipboard retaining the format of it. Pasting that data into a spreadsheet will put the data into rows and columns just like the original data was.
The add-on has to be downloaded from Mozilla and installed using the Tools > Addons menu in Thunderbird. A click on Install in that menu will open a file browser where the downloaded extension has to be selected.
The extension adds two entries to the right-click context menu. The first is always available which will copy the whole table to the clipboard. The second is only available when CTRL-selecting table cells to copy only those selected cells to the clipboard. A shortcut CTRL Shift C is also available to copy selected table cells to the clipboard.
The Thunderbird extension could be useful for Thunderbird users who regularly receive tables in their emails that are embedded in the message’s body and not attached in separate files.
2:22 AM
This is a list of the most common keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird
General Thunderbird Keyboard Shortcuts
F8 Toggle the message pane's visibility
F2 Rename current folder
F5 Send + Receive
Ctrl+U View current email's source
Ctrl+M Create blank email
Ctrl+N (Also works)
Del Delete selected email
Ctrl+Q Exit Thunderbird
Email Organization Keyboard Shortcuts
J Mark selected email as "junk mail"
Shift+J Mark selected email as "not junk"
M Toggles the selected email's "Read" status
Ctrl+Shift+C Marks as "Read" all emails in current folder
G Group-sort your emails
i Toggles the selected email's "Flag" status
1-5 Assign a label to the selected email
0 (zero) Un-label the selected email
* Expand all threads
/ Collapse all threads
Ctrl+A Select all emails in folder
Ctrl+Shift+A Select all emails in thread
Email Formatting Keyboard Shortcuts
Ctrl+B Bold
Ctrl+U Underlined
Ctrl+I Italic
Ctrl+L Insert Link
Ctrl+A Select All
Ctrl+X Cut selected text
Ctrl+C Copy selected text
Ctrl+V Paste
Ctrl+K Check spelling
9:03 AM
In Mozilla Thunderbird, you can easily send Bcc: copies of all mail to any and every email address you like. Invisible to other recipients, these copies can create a trail of the mail you send, or just act as a secondary Sent folder.
To automatically send a Bcc: copy of all mail to one or more email addresses in Mozilla Thunderbird:
* Please select Tools | Account Settings... from the menu in Mozilla Thunderbird.
* and go to Copies & Folders under the desired account.
* after that Make sure Bcc these email addresses: is checked.
* And type the desired address or addresses.
o Select multiple addresses by comma.
* Click OK.
When you compose a new message in Mozilla Thunderbird, the automatic Bcc: addresses have already been entered. If desired, you can selectively remove them, of course.
To automatically send a Bcc: copy of all mail to one or more email addresses in Mozilla Thunderbird:
* Please select Tools | Account Settings... from the menu in Mozilla Thunderbird.
* and go to Copies & Folders under the desired account.
* after that Make sure Bcc these email addresses: is checked.
* And type the desired address or addresses.
o Select multiple addresses by comma.
* Click OK.
When you compose a new message in Mozilla Thunderbird, the automatic Bcc: addresses have already been entered. If desired, you can selectively remove them, of course.
2:22 AM
First, you will need to create a file with which Thunderbird can work. Thunderbird will not accept Microsoft Word or PDF files, (even if Word files are saved as RTF, Rich Text Format.) You can create a signature in Notepad (or any plain text editor), or supply an HTML file.
Create an HTML Email Signature in Thunderbird
HTML is the formatting language that is used to create web pages like this one. Unlike plain text signature files, using HTML signature files allows you to define colors, text formatting (bold, italic…), and insert email or website links.
Attaching an Image to Your Email Signature
Thunderbird allows you to include a graphic file in your email signature; to make sure that the image will be embedded in your email, and appear to recipient, you do need to set the proprietary "moz-do-not-send" attribute to "false" inside the HTML tag.
This will ensure that Thunderbird does in fact include the image file in your email signature; if the moz-do-not-send attribute is set to "true", or omitted alltogether, Thunderbird will ignore the image. A big thanks to Vick for raising the issue!
To attach the signature to your email account, go to Tools and click Account Settings…. Highlight the email account for which you want a signature.
Click the Choose… button, and navigate to the file you just created, and click Ok to dismiss the Account Settings dialog.
From now on, each email you send using this email account will automatically contain the
Create an HTML Email Signature in Thunderbird
HTML is the formatting language that is used to create web pages like this one. Unlike plain text signature files, using HTML signature files allows you to define colors, text formatting (bold, italic…), and insert email or website links.
Attaching an Image to Your Email Signature
Thunderbird allows you to include a graphic file in your email signature; to make sure that the image will be embedded in your email, and appear to recipient, you do need to set the proprietary "moz-do-not-send" attribute to "false" inside the HTML tag.
This will ensure that Thunderbird does in fact include the image file in your email signature; if the moz-do-not-send attribute is set to "true", or omitted alltogether, Thunderbird will ignore the image. A big thanks to Vick for raising the issue!
To attach the signature to your email account, go to Tools and click Account Settings…. Highlight the email account for which you want a signature.Click the Choose… button, and navigate to the file you just created, and click Ok to dismiss the Account Settings dialog.
From now on, each email you send using this email account will automatically contain the
5:45 AM
Thunderbird is open source software, meaning that anyone has the right download and use the program for free, and view and modify the source code under the terms of the license.
To download Thunderbird, go to mozilla.com.
1:48 AM
Thunderbird is a free, open-source and cross-platform mail client for most operating systems including, but not limited to, Windows, Linux and Macintosh. It is based on the Mozilla codebase. It is a robust and easy to use client, similar to competing products like Outlook Express, but with some major advantages such as junk mail classification. Read more about the mail client at the Product Page.
