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 Backup and Restore profile on Mozilla Thunder bird

How to Backup and Restore profile

Locate your profile folder

     * On Windows XP : Profile folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
  
  * Windows 7: Profile folder: C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\

                                      where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.




Backing up your profile
Just follow these steps to backup your profile :

   1. Close Thunderbird completely (All windows)
   2. Make a copy of your profile folder to a CD-RW disc or a separate hard disk you can also folder on existing Hard disk itself for backup purposes.


Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile

It's possible to move the location of a profile folder. This could be useful if you have a backed up profile folder somewhere on your hard drive and want to tell Thunderbird to use that as your profile. This section explains how to do this.

   1. close Thunderbird completely (all windows).

   2. Move the profile folder to the desired location.
               For example, on Windows XP, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. If you are reading these instructions because you want to restore a previously backed up profile, this step isn't necessary. Just note the current location of the profile you want to restore.

   3. Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
       
          *   On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird\
      
        * On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application
          Data\Thunderbird\
         
   4. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved. Change the Path= line to the new location. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you switch from a relative path to a non-relative one, the direction of the slashes may need to change (e.g. in Windows, non-relative paths use backslashes, whereas relative ones use forward slashes).
  
   5. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0.
  
   6. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.

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