Thunderbird is a nice email client available on Linux and Windows. With the Lightning plugin, Thunderbird can support calendar functions well. Exchange is a widely used email and calendar/address book service software. Office 365 provide the cloud version of Exchange named Office 365 Exchange Online. Although Exchange Online provide IMAP for synchronizing emails, it provides…
Thunderbird is powerful and feature rich. But different users have different needs and it is not feasible to include all features into the base software, where a plugin system shines. Thunderbird, similar to Firefox from Mozilla, supports addons/plugins and has a large ecosystems. Here, we will introduce several addons to Thunderbird that make Thunderbird easier…
How to make Thunderbird check for new messages in all IMAP folders? Under “Edit/Tools > Options > Advanced”, click the “Config Editor” button. In the config editor, set the mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new configuration to “true“.
offlineimap actually does “synchronization”—if an email is deleted from the server, the email will be deleted from the local Maildir (http://offlineimap.org). This is good for mail sync. However, for backing up emails,one would like to keep the email even if it is deleted from the server. How to achieve this? You may use `getmail` which…
I have several installation of Thunderbird under Linux to check/send emails using IMAP email servers. I use filters extensively to manage my emails. How to export and import message filters of Thunderbird so that I can synchronize the rules on several installations? About message filters in Thunderbird (More at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)): Filters are account specific, there…
I have a large IMAP email account which contains many emails in a rich structure of directories. How to back up the whole IMAP account to my local computer? The requirements: Automatically downloading these files. There are many directories, and copying-pasting emails will take too much time. Keep the directory structures which are used to…
I have some old emails left in the Evolution local directory (unfortunately not in the mail server’s imap directory). So how to import the Evolution directory which contains some files for the emails to Thunderbird so that I can copy them to the imap directory if needed? You can do this in two steps: First,…
Evolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the…
The software in Nokia E71 already support POP3 and IMAP email box. But we may lead to install Nokia messaging and setting up account of Nokia messaging. Storing our emails in remote servers isn’t a secure way. And why not use IMAP directly if it is supported by the system software? How to set up…