Disable send progress window: ThunderBird

            You don't know how often you have already seen the dialog that shows you how fast Mozilla Thunderbird delivers the message after you click Send, but I'm sure that you wished it was not there every single time. Fortunately, there's a way to turn the send progress dialog off in Mozilla Thunderbird.
 

Exactly that is what we are going to learn in this article , That is How to turn Off the Send Progress Dialog in Mozilla Thunderbird. This article will provide you with simple and basic steps which you can perform on your own.

Steps to disable Mozilla Thunderbird's send progress dialog when it delivers an outgoing message:

    * Select "Tools" | "Options"... (or "Preferences"...) from the menu.

 
    * Go to the "Advanced tab".

 
    * Make sure the "General" category is open.

 
    * Click "Config Editor"....

 
    * Type "show_send_progress" under Filter:.

 
    * Double-click mailnews.show_send_progress (under Preference Name to make sure false appears in the Value column.

 
    * Close the configuration editor and the options dialog.

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

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Protecting your Email's: ThunderBird

                    I guess you don't want other people who have access to your computer — legitimate access, of course, because they're family, friends and colleagues, for instance — to have access to the emails it holds as well.

Yes in this article that what exactly we are going to discuss about how to protect your email in Mozilla ThunderBird. This article provides you with basic and simple steps which you can perform on your own

If this is true you have, of course, set up a distinct Windows account for each user so that everybody can have their own wallpaper, and so that emails and documents are kept separate. This is very well and good, but it is not enough to protect your emails.
Keep Your Email Private in Windows

To keep your emails — even as files on the disk — private from the eyes of other users:

•  Locate the folder in which your email program keeps mail.

•  How to Find Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile Directory

• Click on it with the right mouse button in Windows Explorer.

• Select Sharing and Security... from the menu.

• Go to the Sharing tab.

• Make sure Make this folder private is checked under Local sharing and security.

• If this option is grayed out, see below for options.

• Click OK.

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

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Known Issue: Unable start ThunderBird

          

           "Thunderbird is already running, but not responding. To open a new window you must close the existing thunderbird process, or restart your system."

Now in this article we are going to learn How to troubleshoot issue with Mozilla ThunderBird starting . This article is gives you simple and adequate information with basic steps which you can perform on your own.

Which, of course, you have already tried — to no avail. If Mozilla Thunderbird refuses to start and complains about another instance or a profile in use instead, the cause may be a stale profile lock left from a crashing instance of Mozilla Thunderbird, for example. You can remove the file that locks your profile and try to get Mozilla Thunderbird starting again.
Fix Mozilla Thunderbird Not Starting

To help Mozilla Thunderbird start when it displays "Thunderbird is already running, but not responding" or opens the profile manager stating your profile is "in use":

    * Make sure no Mozilla Thunderbird process is running:
          o In Windows, kill all "thunderbird" processes in Task Manager.
          o Using Mac OS X, force quit all "thunderbird" processes in Activity Monitor.
         
    * Open your Mozilla Thunderbird profile folder.

 
    * Windows: (Windows XP and Windows 7)
          o Delete the "parent.lock" file. 

 
    * Mac OS X:
          o Open Terminal.
          o Type "cd " at the prompt.
          o Grab the icon in the Finder's folder title and drag it to the Terminal window, dropping it there; the line will now read something like "cd /Users/me/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default".
          o Hit Enter.
          o Type "rm -f .parentlock".
          o Hit Enter again. 

 
   

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Deleting mail without opening Mail

            As soon as you click on a message in Mozilla Thunderbird, it opens. That's nice and convenient, of course, but it can also be revealing and annoying.

If you want to delete a message, you have to highlight it ,lick on it first. There's no way around that, but you can disable the pane that opens messages as soon as you do that. Without that message pane, it's fast and easy to delete emails sans opening them.
 

Exactly, that is what we are going to learn in this article. that is how to delete a Message Without Opening it First in Mozilla Thunderbird

To remove an email in Mozilla Thunderbird without opening it:

    * Click on the message with the right mouse button (or hold down Ctrl while clicking on a Mac).
    * Select Delete Message from the menu.

To delete multiple messages in one go, you can hide the preview pane:

    * Select View | Layout | Message Pane from the menu so that the item is not checked.
    * Highlight the desired message or messages in the message list.
    * Press Del.

Of course, you can enable the message pane again using the same menu command as above. 

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

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Changing emails view Unread, Recent etc

              Folders are a fine way to organize emails. In Mozilla Thunderbird, you can create as many as you want, and even each account can have its own set.

The more folders, the unwieldier the list of folders, though. Wouldn't it be great if you could somehow limit the list to a few favorite mailboxes — easily accessible no matter how deep down in your folder tree they may be? Or a list of just the folders with unread messages? Or recently visited mailboxes maybe?

Fortunately, Mozilla Thunderbird can do all of that; elegantly. And that was exactly we are going to learn in this article, that is how to view only Unread, Recent or Favorite Folders in Mozilla Thunderbird

To have Mozilla Thunderbird show you only a subset of all your email folders:

    * Select "View" | "Folders" from the menu followed by

 
          o "Unread" for all folders containing unread messages.

 
          o "Favorite" for folders marked favorites and
                + (You can change a folder's favorite status by clicking on it with the right mouse button and selecting Favorite Folder.) 

 
          o "Recent" for folders you recently used.

To return to the full expandable list of folders:

    * Select "View" | "Folders" | "All from Mozilla Thunderbird's main window menu".

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

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Changing sent mail folder in Thunderbird

           Mozilla Thunderbird can automatically keep a copy of every message you send.

By default it will place that copy in the "Sent" folder of the account it is sent from. But you can change this to be any folder in any account. For example, you could collect all sent mail from all accounts in the "Sent" folder of "Local Folders".

 
Exactly that is what we are going to learn in this article, that is how to specify Where Sent Mail Should be Kept in Mozilla Thunderbird.

To specify where copies of sent messages are kept in Netscape or Mozilla:

    * Select "Tools" | "Account Settings"... from the menu.
         
    * Go to the "Copies and Folders" sub-category of the desired account.

 
    * Make sure "Place a copy in:" is selected.

 
    * Choose "Other:".

 
    * Select the "folder" where sent messages should be kept.

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

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Installing Different Language Spell check

          If you compose your emails in Arabic, English, French and Icelandic, but your Mozilla Thunderbird's spell checker only finds fault with your English, that's a pity.

Given how useful spell checking can be especially with languages other than your native, Mozilla Thunderbird should really be able to learn new languages Fortunately, it can. All it needs is the proper dictionary.

That is exactly what we are going to learn in this article, that is how to add a Dictionary to the Mozilla Thunderbird Spell Checker.
 

Steps to install a new language for the Mozilla Thunderbird spell checker:

    * Open Mozilla Thunderbird.

 
    * Select "Tools" | "Add-ons" from the menu.

 
    * Open your browser.

 
    * Go to the "Mozilla Thunderbird dictionaries page".

 
    * "Drag and drop" the desired Install link to "Mozilla Thunderbird's Add-ons" window.

 
    * Switch to the Add-ons window.

 
    * Click "Install Now" in the Software Installation dialog.

 
    * Now click "Restart" Thunderbird.

You can use the new dictionary by selecting it from the Spell drop-down menu (click the down arrow) while composing a message. These steps can be followed in few Mozilla ThunderBird installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Disable spam detection temporarily

              The spam filters in Mozilla Thunderbird can automatically move all the junk messages from your Inbox to the Junk folder.

If you don't want Mozilla Thunderbird to mess with your email, but still don't want to see the spam, however, there's something for you, by using message views, you can hide detected spam temporarily.
 

Yes, we are going to learn the same in this article, that is to Hide Spam in Mozilla Thunderbird.

To move junk mail out of view in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Click on the "View" drop-down menu in the "search bar" (above the message list).
          o If you cannot see the search bar, select "View"| "Show/Hide"| "Search Bar" from the menu in Mozilla. 

 
    * Select "Not Junk".

This will mask those messages whose junk status identifies them as spam. To return display to all emails in the folder, select All from the View: menu in the search bar. These steps can be used for Mozilla ThunderBird installed in Windows XP and Windows 7.

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Search current folder : Mozilla ThunderBird

 

               Unread emails from Friend? New messages with "histrionic" in them? All flagged mail in the inbox? In this article we are going to learn the same, that is how to Search the Current Folder or View Fast in Mozilla Thunderbird. These steps are easy to perform on your own.
Mozilla Thunderbird includes a fast, normally invisible way to find mail in the current folder. You can search the sender, recipient and subject for keywords and phrases, of course, but also narrow results to unread messages or emails containing attachments, for example.
Search the Current Folder or View Fast in Mozilla Thunderbird.

Steps to  Search the Current Folder or View Fast in Mozilla Thunderbird:

To find a certain message fast — by sender, subject, content, status and more — in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Press Ctrl-F (Windows, Linux) or Command-F (Mac).
    * Start typing the sought name, word or phrase.
    * To narrow your search, use the buttons under Quick Filter and Filter messages by:.
          o Make sure only Sender is selected, for example, to find a certain contact's mail.
          o Select the star to include only starred messages in your results.

If you find no result in the current folder, you can press Enter to search all folders with the same search term (but not your narrowing criteria).

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

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Automatic Spelling check: ThunderBird

          Spell checkers are not only useful, their attempts to correct mistakes can also be very funny. So if you're not running the spell checker in Mozilla Thunderbird because you think it will correct your misspellings, run it for the fun in it, and run it automatically.

Yes, that is what we are going to learn in this article that is how to enable spell checker to check spellings automatically. Mozilla Thunderbird can check the spelling of every message automatically before it sends it.

 
Steps to have Mozilla Thunderbird check the spelling of every message automatically right before it is sent:

    * Select "Tools" | "Options"... or "Edit" | "Preferences"... from the menu.

 
    * Go to the "Composition" category.

 
    * Choose the "Spelling" tab.

 
    * Make sure Check "spelling before sending is checked".

 
    * Close the preferences window.

From now on, Mozilla Thunderbird will run the spell checker against every message before delivering it, and maybe deliver some spelling corrections. 

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

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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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Adding image to Signature: ThunderBird

                    What do you have that crisp scalable logo for? If the logo helps people recognize what comes from your organization, why not use it in your emails? — In a classy manner, of course, say in the signature.

Of course, not only logos can appear in your Mozilla Thunderbird signature. You can put your photo or maybe a funny animation in it, too, or just some decorative elements.Whatever the purpose, whatever the image: adding a graphic to your signature is easy in Mozilla Thunderbird.In this article you are going to find out how to do this.

 Steps add an Image to Your Mozilla Thunderbird Signature

To insert an image into your signature in Mozilla Thunderbird:

    * Start with a new, empty message using HTML formatting.

 
    * In the message's body, create your signature the way you want it to look.

 
    * Insert the image.
          o Go to the image insertion dialog's Link tab to link your image to a web page. 

 
    * Select "File" | "Save As" | "File"... from the message's menu.

 
    * Make sure HTML Files is selected under Format:.

 
    * Enter "signature.html" (or something similar) under Save As:.

 
    * Click "Save".

 
    * Close the message window, not saving the draft.

 
    * Select "Tools" | "Account Settings"... from the Mozilla Thunderbird menu.

 
    * For all desired accounts:
          o Go to the account's root item.
          o Make sure "Attach this signature": is checked.
          o Click Choose....
          o Find and highlight the "signature.html" file just created.
          o Click "Open". 

 
    * Click "OK". 

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

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