Tame Your Email With Thunderbird
No More Identities
In Outlook Express you’d need to create a different identity if you wanted to separate your email addresses completely from each other – otherwise you’d need to create separate folders and filters. With Thunderbird, you can choose not to store your email messages in the local folder and a new folder will automatically be created with the name you choose during its creation.
This makes it easier to customize when and how each individual email address is checked and you don’t have to worry about mixing all your messages in just one inbox.
NOTE: the order that you enter the accounts into Thunderbird will be the order the folders appear in the sidebar. The very first email address you enter will become your default. However, there is an extension which lets you work around this.
May 21st, 2005 at 9:17 pm
okay, okay! I’ll try it!
May 23rd, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Don’t forget to let us know how you get on with it
May 27th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Fantastic Teli
Personally I love thunderbird, and had only recently found the crossover theme, the only problem I had was that it didn’t work with the calendar extension, and so ended up downloading Sunbird instead, but otherwise it’s fantastic, especially for sorting your mail and it’s junk filter, definitely better than OE. There’s one thing you forgot to mention, on the fly plain text to HTML viewing through the view menu, it’s so much more flexible than OE’s rigid one or the other approach, I would give it 10/10
May 27th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Thanks Phill,
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I’ve heard a lot of people say that about the Cross Over theme, that it’s not compatible with the Calendar, but it works just dandy with mine (maybe he upgraded the plugin when I wasn’t looking
And you’re right…the plain text to HTML viewing on the fly is much better than OE.