Thunderbird is flexible to suit your personality, to give you the features you need, and to fit your work style.
Selecting the Archive button or hitting the ‘A’ key will archive your email. If you think you’re going to need an email in the future but want it out of your inbox without deleting it, archive it! Archiving helps you manage your inbox and put your email into a new archive folder system. Your search results are displayed in a tab so you can easily switch back and forth to your search results and other email.
Thunderbird 3 also indexes all of your emails to help you search even faster. The new search interface in Thunderbird 3 contains filtering and timeline tools to pinpoint the exact email you’re looking for. There is also a new Tab menu on the Tab toolbar to help you switch between Tabs. When quitting Thunderbird, visible tabs will be saved and will be restored when you open Thunderbird the next time. Right-clicking on messages or folders will open them in a tab in the background. Tabbed email lets you keep multiple emails open for easy reference.ĭouble-clicking or hitting enter on a mail message will now open that message in a new tab window. Perhaps you’re responding to an email and need to refer back to an earlier email. Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. The integrated RSS feed reader extends these abilities to news. Though not perfect, a scam sensor detects tactics commonly used to fool users.įlexible views, free-form tags and powerful filters, search and virtual folders (which also work fine with IMAP accounts and across email accounts) make it a snap to handle large amounts of mail.
Combine these two aspects of Thunderbird, and you get a sensible feature that automatically sanitizes (potentially dangerous) HTML code and turns off remote images for spam or anything else - worms, viruses - you classify as bad mail. Not only is Thunderbird a secure email client, a sophisticated and very well integrated Bayesian spam filter knocks out most junk mail (after some training). It offers a pretty and streamlined interface to a very powerful email package. It lets you handle mail efficiently and with style, and Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. Note that the same certificate does not have to be used for both options.Mozilla Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure and very functional email client and RSS feed reader.
Select Account Settings from drop down menu.Follow the process above and choose Encrypt This Message.Ensure the recipient has a Digital Certificate and you have assigned the Certificate to their entry in your contacts area.Note: in order to encrypt an email for the recipient you must have the recipient's digital certificate, and their digital certificate must be assigned to the relevant entry in your address book Compose your email and attach files as usualĮncrypting an email ensures that only the recipient may view the email content and any attachments.Signing an email ensures the recipient knows the email has come from you and informs him / her if it has been tampered with since being signed. Once complete the certificate will appear and you will be able to digitally sign e-mails you send out. In dialog box that appears select Advanced tabīrowse to the location of your PKCS12 certificate and enter any necessary passwords.
Thunderbird has it's own certificate store and does not automatically pick up certificates from the Windows certificate store. These instructions assume you have previously followed the instructions to save your certificate to a secure location. Assigning your Certificate to your email account: