In addition to filling out the field in the mail settings, you can insert a picture or html document with the required content. When writing a message, you need to call up the properties of the inserted image (it will be displayed in the text of the letter) and in this window, check the box next to the line “Attach this image to the message.” This will allow the recipient to receive the entire message and not have to download the signature separately.

Antispam filter

This feature is enabled by default in Mozilla Thunderbird and allows you to further filter out useless or promotional emails. The filter has 2 settings levels: for an individual account and general.

In the first case, to gain access to the filter settings, you need to open the “Account Settings” window and go to the “Antispam Filter” subsection.

Here you can enable/disable the filter and configure where to move emails marked by the user as spam.

Access to general settings The antispam filter can be obtained from the same window after clicking on the “Global settings” button. They configure filter training parameters, namely, what to do with flagged emails: delete or move to the Spam folder.

To train anti-spam, when reading useless and advertising letters, you need to click on the “Spam” button located in the upper right corner of the message quick view area. If you do this regularly, then after a while Mozilla Thunderbird itself will move spam from the Inbox to the appropriate folder.

Ban on receiving letters

This task is performed by the built-in message filter. It does not prevent the download of emails from a specific sender, but rather moves them from the main folder to Spam or deletes them. Configuring this option in Mozilla Thunderbird is done using the following algorithm:

To add new addresses to the filter, just open it ( Mozilla menu Thunderbird > Message filters > select the desired one > Edit) and click on the button with the “+” sign. It will add another field for new e-mail addresses.

Managing saved passwords

When you add new accounts, Mozilla Thunderbird prompts you to save their passwords in memory. This is a convenient feature, but not secure because anyone with access to the computer can copy them. To avoid this, there are 2 options in the Mozilla Thunderbird settings.

The first provides access to existing passwords. To get it, you need:

• In the main menu, select the “Settings” sub-item.
• In the new window, go to the “Protection” and “Passwords” tabs.
• Click the “Saved Passwords” button.

In this window you can view passwords (the “Display” button) or delete them.

The second setting allows you to restrict access to the storage using a password. To do this you need:

This password will need to be entered each time the program is launched.

Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird is a fairly simple process thanks to the program's user-friendly interface.

If Thunderbird is specified as your system"s default email application, it will integrate with other applications (such as word processors and web browsers). For example, when you click an email address link (like " [email protected]") on a web page or invoke a mail function (such as "Send to") from a word processor, Thunderbird will launch and open a message composition window.

Unfortunately, there is a great deal of variability among operating systems and applications regarding how the default mail client is specified. If the suggestions on this page do not solve your problem, consult the specific application or operating system"s documentation for instructions on how to set the default email client. Also, see the Default mail client article on the MozillaZine website for more tips.

Force Thunderbird to check if it is the default

Thunderbird can be configured to check if it is the operating system"s default mail client each time it is started.

• If you want to set Thunderbird as the default client for e-mail, newsgroups or feeds, check the corresponding boxes and click OK. When a box is grayed out, Thunderbird is already set as the default client for that purpose.
• If you set Thunderbird to be the default mail client, other applications (such as your web browser or word processing application) may need to be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Set Thunderbird as the operating system default

1. Click the Windows Start button, then click on the Control Panel icon to open the Windows Control Panel.
2. Click the Add or Remove Programs icon to open the Add or Remove Programs applet.
3. On the left side of the Window click the Set Program Access and Defaults icon.
4. In the Access and Defaults window, click on the Custom radio button to expand the Custom category.
5. Underneath Choose a default e-mail program,select Mozilla Thunderbird.

1. Click the Windows Start button, then click the Default Programs item.
2. Click on Set your default programs.
3. Under Programs, click Thunderbird.
4. Click Set this program as default.
5. Click OK at the bottom of the window.

1. Open the PC Settings
2. Select Search and apps from the sidebar.
3. Select Defaults from the sidebar.
4. Email to show your choices.
5. Select Thunderbird.

1. Open the Settings application by pressing and releasing the Windows Start button, then clicking the gear icon.
2. Click the Apps icon, then click Default Apps in the list.
3. Click the icon under the heading Email to show your choices.
4. Select Thunderbird.

The instructions above for making Thunderbird check if it is the default email client should have configured the operating system preference. However, if it isn't working, you can set it manually as follows:

1. Launch the default Mac OS X email application (called "Mail", located in the /Applications folder.)
2. Select Mail > Preferences from the menu.
3. On the General tab, select "Thunderbird" from the Default email reader drop-down list.
4. Close Mail.

Using Gnome as an example, go to Applications > Desktop Preferences > Advanced > Preferred Applications. Select Custom Mail Reader and enter thunderbird %s (If Thunderbird is not in the system"s PATH statement, specify the full path.)

Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 for Yandex.Mail

This setup method is suitable for Thunderbird 3.0. If you use previous version, open the mail collection settings page for Thunderbird 2.0 .

If you want to receive mail using your email clients, enable protocols POP3 or IMAP.

To do this, go to the Settings of your Yandex mailbox, open the “ Mail programs " Select the protocol you want to use by checking the box next to it. Save the result by clicking on the “Save Changes” button.

Read more about the operation of the POP3 and IMAP protocols in this article.

Configure mail collection via IMAP protocol

To set up Yandex collection. Mail in Thunderbird via IMAP, follow these steps:

2. On the menu File(File) select item Create/Account...

3. In the window

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"Recheck configuration"

5. "Create an account", after which you can start working with your mailbox via the IMAP protocol

Right-click on your name account and select "Options..."

In the window that opens, go to the "Server Settings" section. In the line “When deleting a message”, select the “move it to folder” option and in the drop-down list indicate “Deleted” (using “e”, not “e”, otherwise a duplicate folder will be created).

Next, go to the "Copies and Folders" section and specify in which folders the letters and drafts you send should be stored. To avoid creating duplicate folders, in both cases you must specify the name of the account you created.

Configure mail collection via POP3 protocol

To set up Yandex collection. Mail in Thunderbird via POP3 protocol, follow these steps:

1. Launch Thunderbird.

2. On the menu File(File) select item Create/Account...(New/Account...) The Account Wizard will launch.

3. In the window Setting up a mail account Enter your name, email address and password.

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For use changes made you need to click on the button "Recheck configuration". After this, you will be taken back to the completed form.

5. To complete the setup process you need to click on the button "Create an account"

6. After that, in the list on the left you need to go to the account settings records, then in Server settings.

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Which includes a functional email client, it is a solution for business people corporate sector, then the Mozilla Thunderbird mailer is perhaps the most ideal option convenient work with email for ordinary users. For ordinary users who actively use email in everyday life. Convenient, minimalistic in terms of consumption system resources, with automatic account setup email, flexible and customizable - Mozilla Thunderbird brings true comfort to working with multiple email accounts.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a functional mailer that supports IMAP and POP and HTML email protocols, as well as RSS news feeds, news groups and chats (personal correspondence) of IRC, Twitter, Facebook accounts, Google Talk. As for the latter functionality, these, alas, are not the most popular communication services for Runet; for example, popular social networks - VKontakte and Odnoklassniki - are not. Nevertheless, the idea itself is good - to implement personal correspondence from social networks and various services for communication between people in the mailer.

Among the advantages of Mozilla Thunderbird are the efficiency of the program, security when working with e-mail, a simple interface with a clear and understandable organization. Mozilla Thunderbird, like the browser, is absolutely free, cross-platform software product. The email client can be downloaded from its official website.

Adding a mail account

The first thing we see after launching Mozilla Thunderbird is a mailer window with options for adding email accounts and other components supported by the program. Click “Email” to add your mailbox to the software client.

If this is your first time adding an email account to your desktop mailer, be sure to check whether access to mail via IMAP and POP protocols is enabled in your mail service account settings.

And in the Mozilla Thunderbird mailer you will see a welcome window for setting up your email account. Moreover, if someone does not yet have an email account or needs a multi-account, Mozilla Thunderbird offers quick registration an account on mail services with which the program cooperates - on gandi.net and on hover.com. These are English-language email services, but they are far from the most popular on the Internet, so naturally we will refuse the Mozilla Thunderbird offer. In our case, however, probably like in most others, there is a mailbox, so feel free to click “Skip this and use my existing mail.”

Mozilla Thunderbird will automatically select the optimal connection settings that are available in the program database for most popular mail servers. And in the next window, all that remains to be done is to select the protocol - IMAP or POP. The first protocol - IMAP - allows you to work with email without downloading it to local space computer device. This is a more popular type of interaction between mail servers and client E-Mail applications, in which the user can have access to mail data both from the mailer and on the mail service website anywhere in the world where there is Internet. The POP protocol completely removes all mail from the mail server and transfers it locally to the computer. It can be used in rare cases when it is undesirable to leave mail on the server, but at the same time, emails must be stored in some secluded place on the computer or on removable media.

Select the protocol (in most cases it will be, of course, IMAP) and click “Finish”.

If the mailbox information was entered correctly, we will see how Mozilla Thunderbird is promptly replenished with incoming email messages. In just a couple of minutes, all letters from the server will be downloaded, and they will be displayed in the mailer window.

Interface

Don’t be afraid of the poor, ascetic interface of the mailer, with the help of add-ons (extensions), like Mozilla browser Firefox, Mozilla program Thunderbird can also be “dressed up” with a beautiful cover from among the themes presented in the add-on store. Click on the mailer menu and select “Add-ons”.

In the first tab “Get add-ons”, select “Favorite topics” and click the “Show all” link.

Then select the one you like from the catalog of presented covers and click the “Add” button to apply it.

And to change appearance mailer radically, you can apply the so-called full topics designs that completely transform the program interface into a different style - with a different background color, with different fonts, with different icons. To get to their catalog, in the “Get add-ons” tab, select “Other customization methods” and click the “Show all full themes” link.

We get into the catalog of complete topics and select the one that interests you.

So, lovers of dark tones can give Mozilla Thunderbird a techno style in black.

Lovers of positive colors can choose cute themes in warm colors.

In order not to be distracted by the colors of the program interface, you can choose neutral themes with readable fonts.

Sorting

Mozilla Thunderbird is the ideal email application for those who like to collect various junk in their mailbox for years. The table of letters can be displayed by subject, sender, and date of receipt. In addition, the mailer is equipped with internal search and filters, with which you can display messages only unread, only with tags, only with attachments, etc.

Anti-spam and protection

Moreover, the anti-spam filter can be configured separately for each email account.

And also allow the antivirus installed on the system to quarantine suspicious emails.

Sound settings

If you are the leader of E-Mail subscriptions and often receive mail, in the “General” section of the mailer settings you can turn off the sound notification so that it does not annoy you. Or you can, on the contrary, as sound notification set your favorite ringtone (".wav" format) or any other sound from an existing selection in Windows (C:\Windows\Media), changing the preinstalled system sound.

As you can see, Mozilla Thunderbird has plenty of functionality to comfortably work with incoming mail. What about outgoing mail?

Sending letters

To send email, click the large noticeable button at the top “Create”. An additional window for creating and sending a message will appear. Here, from the drop-down list, we can select one or another email account from which the letter will be sent.

Mozilla Thunderbird is equipped with an internal spell checker - this is certainly a huge plus for the program. As for the formatting capabilities of sent text, Mozilla’s brainchild, of course, is far from being built into Microsoft Outlook 2013 has the functionality of a full-fledged Word text editor, however, basic capabilities for text formatting are present.

To avoid writing the same letter text to many recipients, you can use Mozilla Thunderbird templates. We compose a universal letter once and save it in the mailer as a template.

What you will need to do in the future is to open it in the templates folder, if necessary, enter certain exact data, enter the recipient and, in fact, press the send button.

Export and import settings

It's a pity that Mozilla Thunderbird is not equipped cloud synchronization data, as is the case with most browsers. And, alas, there is no full-fledged function for importing/exporting settings in the mailer either. It is only possible to import settings from other email clients.

But that's not a problem. Transfer Mozilla settings Thunderbird can be done manually by copying the configured files to a non-system drive or transferring them to cloud storage. And then these files will need to be placed in the Mozilla Thunderbird settings folder after installing the program on a new reinstalled system or on a new device.

Before reinstalling the system or before using Mozilla Thunderbird on another computer device, go to the mailer settings directory:

As a rule, AppData folder hidden and is not displayed in Explorer by default. In order for it and its contents to be visible, you need to set the display settings hidden elements in Windows Explorer.

The contents of the Thunderbird folder are the mailer settings files. We copy this folder with all its contents and place it on a non-system drive or send it to cloud storage on the Internet.

But we install the Mozilla Thunderbird program on a new system or on a new computer, launch it and immediately close it without connecting email accounts. We follow the same path as before - we set the display of hidden elements in Windows Explorer and go to the mailer settings folder:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird

Open the “Thunderbird” folder with the old mailer settings in another Explorer window and drag all its contents into new folder"Thunderbird" Naturally, we replace the files in the destination folder.

Google Chrome or a Chromium-based clone like . Therefore, collecting all your mailboxes into a single, lightweight email client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, so as not to miss an important letter is a productive move. At the same time, no matter from which email service the email is sent, a functional mailer like Mozilla Thunderbird will offer its own tools for creating it, and there will be no need to delve into the peculiarities of the web interface of each individual account.

Mail clients allow you to save a lot of time on checking mail. However, it is not always clear how to use them. Let's look at the example of Mozilla Thunderbird (hereinafter referred to as MT) through all the stages of installation and configuration in order.

First, you need to download the installation package from the official project page. We choose the assembly that suits you - they differ not only in languages, in addition, each OS has its own version. Let's assume that the Russian language is what you need and your OS is Windows (absolutely any, the site will automatically select the right package for you). Click and start downloading.

Attention! If you have already installed this email client, it is strongly recommended to uninstall it.

Run the downloaded *.exe file and click next. You can choose to install MT in standard(checkbox opposite “Normal”) or in custom mode. The second installation method should be chosen if the standard path “c:\program files\mozilla thunderbird\” does not suit you for some reason. Click next.

The installation completes almost instantly, now launch the client. Let's move on to the next point.

2. Setting up MT

When you launch it for the first time, the system integration window pops up. It suggests using MT by default as an email client, newsgroup client, etc. What’s convenient is that you can configure it right away Windows search so that it can search for messages. Choose whatever suits your needs. To prevent this window from bothering you every time you start, uncheck the corresponding box. Click “Ok” and move on.

An account setup window immediately pops up. If you already have an Email, you should not create a new one. Click on "Skip this and use my existing email."

In this window, enter all necessary information. The name can be anything, and the password and address are exactly the same as you specified when registering with postal service(google, rambler, yandex, mail.ru, etc.).

The setup occurs automatically in most cases. Once completed, you are prompted to choose between IMAP and POP3. Here, again, whatever is more convenient for you. If Internet access is stable, choose the first; if not, choose the second. Click done if automatic setting was successful.

If not, resort to manual configuration. All the necessary data can usually be found on the website that provides email services. When finished, click done.

If you have several mailboxes, You can combine them - just click on “Create a new account” and do the above manipulations. Nothing complicated.

If everything went well, the client window will look something like this:

3. Additional settings

You can customize MT for yourself by clicking on “View settings for this account.” They are quite flexible; there is a frequency for checking new messages and ways to store them. You can also include a signature and edit the response form.

The anti-spam filter is already enabled by default, most annoying advertising campaigns will bypass you, but sometimes it’s worth checking the “Spam” tab - no system can be perfect. From time to time, spam filters fail, “burning” messages that are needed.

3.1. Functionality check

To check the client’s functionality, click on the “Inbox” tab, if there are any (even if the account is new, services usually send welcome messages). If there are no messages, you can try sending a letter to yourself. There is a “Create” tab in the upper left corner, feel free to click it.

In the “Create message: %name%” window, fill in the fields as follows:

• To: your address
• Topic: any, for example - test.
• In the field for entering the text of the letter, type whatever comes to mind. Let's say "one two three."
• Click the "Submit" button in the upper left corner.
• If a notification window about a new received message () pops up, you have successfully configured your email client; if not, try repeating all the steps, but this time be more careful.

4. Possible problems. Their decision.

• Problems usually arise if the user installs all sorts of themes and add-ons for the email client. It may slow down very much or not start at all. Then you should “throw away” the recently downloaded updates and try to find a more stable alternative to them.

• Another common problem is an error when starting the program. In this case, reinstalling or rebooting does not help - all efforts seem to be in vain. There is a way out, and it’s quite simple. Find at the root installed client profiles.ini file, right-click on it, run through some text editor, for example Notepad, then press Ctrl+f, find the line “Default=1” and delete it. Save the file and close. The letters and profile will remain in place, and the program will start again. If it doesn’t help, delete the file, but then you’ll have to create a new account.

• It happens that after an update the program stops working correctly - in this case a simple reinstallation will help.

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