Hands On Review of Thunderbird 3 | Linux Today

Hands On Review of Thunderbird 3

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 16, 2009

“New features

“The first thing that you will see when running a fresh install
of Thunderbird 3.0 is the prompt to set up your email accounts.

“Adding your Hotmail or Gmail account is very easy. You just
need to enter your username and password and it will do the rest of
the configuration. You don’t need to know any IMAP, SMTP, TLS
settings, the wizard will check a database and find the right
settings for your account. It also supports IMAP by default, so you
can sync your online account with Thunderbird easily. Tabbed
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“Thunderbird 3 comes with tab support so you can open your
emails in tabs. Search results are automatically opened in new tabs
so you can return to your mailbox easily.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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