Mozilla Thunderbird (mail client)

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 antispam, when reading useless and advertising letters, you need to click on the “Spam” button located in the upper right corner of the area quick view messages. 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 Thunderbird menu > Message Filters > select the one you want > 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 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.

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most popular solutions for working with email correspondence.

• The main income of open source products is advertising, which is also found in Mozilla Thunderbird.

Advice! In the next settings item, we will be asked to create an account on the gandi.net service. This is not the most convenient service, and it does not have Russian-language interface, so select “Skip this and use my existing email.”

• In the next window, we will need to indicate the address and password of an account already registered on any service, as well as enter a name that will be automatically attached as a signature to your letters ( this function may be disabled in the future).

• For most popular services email correspondence Mozilla Thunderbird will automatically select the necessary settings; you just have to choose between IMAP and POP3 message forwarding protocols.
  The difference between them is that when using POP3, copies of emails are stored on your hard drive, which allows you to use the client even when there is no Internet, but this can take up a significant amount of your computer's memory.
  Since Wi-Fi and high-speed Internet are now widespread, it would be more advisable to use IMAP.

• On this basic settings finished. All you have to do is wait a few minutes for the program to download all messages from the server.

Managing anti-spam filter and anti-phishing protection

IN modern internet there are a large number of annoying advertisements and various malware, so the client for working with electronic by Mozilla mail Thunderbird has built-in anti-spam and anti-virus protection that can be activated as follows:

• Click on the control icon (three bars in the right corner of the program control panel), select “Settings”, and then go to the protection tab.

• In the anti-spam tab, you can specify what to do with advertising messages (delete or move them to the Spam folder), automatically mark them as read, and also activate the built-in adaptive filter, which will recognize advertising mailings and place them in the spam list .
• The “Fraudulent emails” section makes it possible to activate a function that notifies the user that the message sent may be phishing.

• And the “Working with antivirus” tab will allow you to give your antivirus program access to scanning emails, which will provide you with an increased level of protection.

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 comfortable 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 tuning accounts 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 last 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 people to communicate.

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 optimal settings connections 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 globe 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, at the same time in some secluded place on the computer or on removable media emails must be stored.

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 as 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 functionality There is plenty of comfort in working 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 possibilities of formatting sent text, the brainchild of Mozilla, of course, is far from the full-fledged text functionality built into Microsoft Outlook 2013 Word editor However, basic text formatting options 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 non-system disk 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 is 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 new system or install the Mozilla Thunderbird program on a new computer, launch it and immediately close it without connecting email accounts. We follow the same path as before - set the display of hidden elements 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, collect all your mailboxes 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.