Changing default font: Mozilla ThunderBird

      What, currently, is your favorite font?

      It's not "Times New Roman", you say? You're not too happy with the default Mozilla Thunderbird presents to you whenever you start a new email, are you?

Fortunately, you can change Mozilla Thunderbird's mind and make your favorite email font the default font with which you start composing messages. Of course, you can change your mind mid-message — or change your mind more radically and choose a different default font again. It's easy. Yes that what we are going to learn in this article that is how to change the Default Mozilla Thunderbird Message Font

Steps to set your own default font for composing new messages in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Make sure each account is set to composing with HTML formatting.

 
    * Select "Tools" | "Options" from the menu in Mozilla Thunderbird.

 
    * Go to the "Composition" category.

 
    * Make sure the "General tab" is selected.

 
    * Choose the desired font, font size and colors under HTML.

 
    * Click "Send Options"....

 
    * Make sure either "Ask me what to do", Send the message in HTML anyway or "Send the message" in both plain text and "HTML" is selected under When sending messages in HTML 

 
    * Click "OK".

 
    * Close the configuration dialog.

These steps can be followed for Mozilla ThunderBird installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Email priority in Mozilla ThunderBird

                      Some people's mail is more important than all the other junk in the Inbox. In Mozilla Thunderbird, you can assign high priority to all messages from one sender automatically. As in this feature will help you in sorting out mails easily according to your convenience.

In this article we are going to learn the same, that is how to set priority for mail's from particular person in Mozilla ThunderBird. This steps are easy to perform and quickly set the feature.

To set up such a top priority filter in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Select "Tools" | "Message Filters"... from the menu.

    * Click the "New"... button.

    * Give the filter a meaningful name ("Office --> Top Priority" for example).

    * Select Sender from the Subject search criteria drop-down menu.

    * Leave contains untouched.

    * Enter the top priority "person's email address".

    * Under Perform these actions:, select "Change the priority to".

    * Make sure highest is selected.

    * Finally, click "OK".

If you have multiple filters, make sure the top priority filter is above any other filter that takes action when a message from your important sender arrives.

These steps can be followed for Mozilla ThunderBird  installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Quick way to add Cc and Bcc contacts

 

            Is it easy to type email addresses? Is it easy to remember email addresses?

Fortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird remembers them, and when you start typing a name (or address), it is completed automatically. Still not ideal for adding 20 recipients to an email you forward — and you don't want to set up a group?

Mozilla Thunderbird has a trick up its toolbar for this situation, too: the Contacts sidebar. And if you're missing an Add to Bcc: button, turn to the context menu. This exactly what we are going to learn in this article that is Adding To, Cc and Bcc Recipients Easily in Mozilla Thunderbird

Steps to add recipients quickly in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Click "Contacts"  from message's toolbar in Mozilla ThunderBird.

 
    * Optionally, select the desired "address book" or use search to locate the desired recipients.
          o Note you can only search one address book at a time. 

 
    * Highlight all "people" you want to add.

 
    * To add them to the To: field:
          o Click the "Add to To:" button. 

 
    * To add them to the Cc: field:
          o Click the "Add to Cc:" button. 

 
    * To add them to the Bcc: field:
          o Click on one of the "recipients" with the "right mouse button".
          o Select "Add to Bcc field" from the menu

These steps can be followed for Mozilla ThunderBird installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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attachment reminder in Mozilla ThunderBird

 

                 How many times have you sent or received an email which promised a file that was never attached? The Thunderbird reminder scans your email text then prompts you before the message is sent.The new attachment reminder looks for the word attachment (and other words like file types) in the body of your message and reminds you to add an attachment before hitting send in Mozilla ThunderBird.


Steps to be followed:

• Click on "Tools" Tab and select "Options".

       

• Now, Select "Advanced" tab, under which select "General"

       

• Select "Config Editor" and Then search for sting "Filter on mail.compose.attachment_reminder_keywords "

• Right click oon the string and select "Modifiy"

 

• Now you can add keywords or remove keywords.

 

 

  These steps can be followed for Mozilla ThunderBird installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Inserting picture into Email body in Mozilla ThunderBird

 

           Sending images as attachments is fun, but sending them inline in the message can be even more fun. To do this, you need not even include the image in your mail directly. It's enough to point to the image somewhere on the Web.

Of course, you can also copy the image location in an Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera window. Now you can include the image in an email message in Mozilla Thunderbird:

To insert a picture in the body of an email so it will be sent inline with Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Create a new message in Mozilla Thunderbird.
    * Position the cursor where you want the image to appear in the body of the email.
    * Select Insert | Image from the menu.

    

    * Use the Choose File... selector to locate and open the desired graphic.
          o If your image is larger than some 640x640 pixels, consider shrinking it to more handy proportions. 


    * Click OK.

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Adding Signature in Mozilla ThunderBird

             Creating a signature in Mozilla Thunderbird isn't as simple as typing one into the program, but it's not hard to do. Follow these steps to create and upload a signature into Mozilla Thunderbird so you can share it with all of your contacts. 

Steps to be followed:
   

1. Decide on your signature's content. Many people like to include links to their business and personal contact information like title, address, phone number and instant messenger username. While the options are limitless, a simple closing with your name also works.
   

2.Launch the Notepad application or any other text editor.
   

3. Type your signature in the text editing program. To create a simple signature, type your content as you want it to appear. Code it in HTML if you want a more dynamic signature. Be sure to include all the appropriate tags.
   

4.Save your new signature. If the signature file contains only a plain signature, save it as a text file. Save HTML signatures as HTML files.
   

5. Open Thunderbird. Select Tools and Account Settings from the program's menu. Click on your account's email address. Check the Attach This Signature option, click Choose, browse your hard drive for your signature file and attach it by pressing Open. Click OK in the Account Settings panel to save your changes.
   

6.Test your signature by sending an email to another email address. Checking that your signature works before using it with your contacts is a sensible safeguard.

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Mozilla Thunderbird Add-on: Contacts Sidebar

Mozilla Thunderbird Add-on: Contacts Sidebar

       This is a handy addon that lets you display all available address books in Thunderbird sidebar. This lets you easily access all your contacts from the main window, quickly edit contact details, drag’n drop files on top of a contact to send it as an attachment and more.

Contacts Sidebar displays all available address books in a sidebar in the 3-pane-window of Thunderbird. It makes all your contacts easy accessible from the main window to quickly write messages, or to edit the properties of a contact card.

Feature highlights

* Collapsable address book selection and search field to save space for contacts and 

   accounts.
* Quick search contacts. Search your contacts with different search criteria modes and 

  multiple search terms
* Write message to selected contacts. Add the recipients to the To, Cc or Bcc field of 

  the new message.
* Forward Contact, to send contact info as a vCard attachment.
* Drag & Drop files and messages to a contact to easily add attachments to a new 

  message to this contact.
* Automatically populate LDAP address books with a user-defined search query (see 

  Contacts Sidebar Options).
* Toolbar button, F4 key and a menu item "View | Layout | Contacts Sidebar" to toggle the display of Contacts Sidebar.

This add-on can be installed for Thunderbird running in any windows O/s version like Windows Xp, Windows 7 etc

Click to Download Contacts slider

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How to manage Mozilla ThunderBird

How to manage Mozilla ThunderBird

Thunderbird flies! The free email program from the makers of Mozilla Firefox shines with easy to use yet powerful features — and you can make it fly faster and fly farther.In Thunderbird you can find similar features which are in Microsoft office outlook where in you can manage Emails, Contacts, Meeting request, Flagging, Massage rules and etc. Calender feature was missing in Thunderbird but now you can download add-on where you can manage Calender as well.

     

This information in video can be used to manage Thunderbird on Windows Xp and Windows 7

To Download Calender feature add-on click on this link 

Calender add-on for Mozilla ThunderBird

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Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export

Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export

      If you have created filter for your profile to move the specific incoming emails to the desired folders or the locations and you either changed the computer or you have reinstalled the Thunderbird. You must take backup of all your emails; however the filters (Rules) will not be copied to the backup file.

  You can separately take backup of the Thunderbird filters (Rules) and import them later where ever required.

By default Thunderbird does not have such option available however you can download an Add-on from Mozilla Thunderbird and install it to the existing Thunderbird application to get Import/Export menu option under tools menu.

Download the Message filter import/export addon from the below link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2474/  and save the add on on your desktop.

Steps:

1). Open Thunderbird and click on Tools.

2). Select Manage Add-Ons and click on Install button.

3). Select the location where you saved the above downloaded Add-on and click 
      on OK to install it.

4). Restart the Thunderbird.

5). Click on Tools, you see Message Filters menu option is added.

6). Select on Message Filters option and click on Export Filters and save 
      the file whichever location you want to save it to.

7). Now the Message filter file is saved and ready to export to any location.

8). To the import to the new location repeat the steps from step-5 and s
      elect import instead of export filters and proceed with the wizard.

NOTE: By importing filters all existing filters will be replaced. So make sure you don’t have existing filters in you account or else be ready to lose them.

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How to create Filters in Mozilla Thunderbird

Creating Filters in Thunderbird

          

      Having a big flow of e-mail's dropping in your inbox can be time consuming to read, to deal with this and save yourself some time, and be able to read the right e-mails first, you might want to add a filter so Thunderbird can place the different mails in different folders. In this article I will try to show you how to make such a filter.

 

 

First thing you need to do is create a new folder, I will use the folder "Techsupp247" as the target mail folder.

As you see I've highlighted "Local Folders", right click in "Folders" menu and choose "New folder", you will now get this window.

Name your folder (I used "Techsupp247", choose whatever you like), choose where it should be located and press "OK".  If things are done right, you should now have a new subfolder under "Local folders". You can also choose to make a new folder during the setup of making a filter, but I found it more easy to make the folder first.

To setup a filter in Thunderbird, go to Tools, and click "Message Filters". The "Message Filters" window will pop up. Click New, and the Filter Rules dialog will open.

Make sure you type a descriptive Filter Name that you'll remember in six month - "TechSupp247" is not ideal, for example.

The best way is to explore a bit on your own for what settings you want. I made a filter which filters mail with comes to the mail address "emailtexpert@techsupp247.com", and place them in the folder "TechSupp247 and labels it as Important (gives it a bright, easy to spot color).  When you are done, press "OK", and you'll get this window:

Massage rules or filters is also available with other email clients like Microsoft office outlook etc

This above steps can be followed on Windows Xp and Windows 7

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How to setup Email account on Mozilla ThunderBird

Configure Your POP or IMAP E-mail Address with Mozilla Thunderbird

      This steps will assist you set up the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client to work with your e-mail account.






To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Mozilla Thunderbird

   1. In Mozilla Thunderbird, from the Tools menu select Account Settings.

   2. Select Email account, and then click Next.

   
3. Enter your name and e-mail address.
 

   4. Select POP or IMAP as the type of incoming server you are using. Click Next.

   5. Enter your e-mail address for the Incoming User Name, and Outgoing User Name. Click Next.

   6. Enter a name for your email account and click Next.

   7. Verify your account information and click Finish.

Please follow same steps for Windows Xp and also Windows 7

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