Mozilla Thunderbird is a powerful and fully customizable full-featured e-mail application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. It has built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spellcheck as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments, as well as advanced message filtering. Thunderbird can be customized and extended with a wide range of plug-ins allowing for added performance and security. In this QuickStart! course, author Bobby Rogers will help you install and configure Thunderbird so you can begin using it today. He also goes into the most popular extensions of this popular and completely free email client.
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Introduction
Course Introduction
Introduction to Mozilla Thunderbird
What is Mozilla Thunderbird?
Installing Thunderbird on Linux pt. 1
Installing Thunderbird on Linux pt. 2
Installing Thunderbird on Windows
Basic Thunderbird Configuration
A Tour of Thunderbird
Basic Functions pt. 1
Basic Functions pt. 2
Toolbars & Settings pt. 1
Toolbars & Settings pt. 2
Configuration Options pt. 1
Configuration Options pt. 2
Advanced Configuration Settings
Working with Add-ons
What are Add-ons?
Lightning Calendar & Task Manager
Enigmail
Other Add-ons
Sending Secure E-mail
How Secure E-mail Works
Generating a Public/Private Key Pair pt. 1
Generating a Public/Private Key Pair pt. 2
Receiving & Storing Keys
Digitally Signing E-mail
Sending Encrypted E-mail
Final Thoughts
Conclusion
Thunderbird Resources
Credits
About the Author