CSCF's Unofficial Mozilla Thunderbird User's Guide

Author: Marianne Nguyen, Co-op Technical Writer (with contributions from Jason Testart, Technical Manager, User Support)

Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source e-mail and news client that supports a variety of operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux. This document is based on Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.8

Click here to download Mozilla Thunderbird

Contents

• Email Account Configuration
  1. Adding an email account
  2. Deleting an email account
  3. Setting an account as default
  4. Setting your outgoing SMTP server

• Protecting Against Junk Mail
  1. Activating junk mail detection
  2. Sending junk mail to a designated folder
  3. Automatically deleting messages in junk mail folders

• Appearance
  1. Personalizing the main window
  2. Displaying toolbars
  3. Installing and using Thunderbird themes

• Address Book
  1. Personal addresses vs. collected addresses
  2. Viewing the contact list
  3. Adding contacts
  4. Deleting contacts
  5. Renaming contacts
  6. Searching for addresses
  7. Creating a new address book
  8. Deleting an address book
  9. Adding UWDir as an address book

• Extensions
  1. Installing and using Thunderbird extensions

• Importing Address Books, Messages, and Settings
  1. Learning how to import

• Email Messages: Sorting and Viewing The Message List
  1. Sorting messages using specific properties
  2. Viewing messages defined by specific properties
  3. Viewing messages as threads
  4. Viewing threads defined by specific properties
  5. Deleting messages
  6. Marking and labeling messages

• Email Messages: Viewing Email Messages
  1. Displaying messages in HTML or plain text format
  2. Abbreviating and expanding mail headers
  3. Displaying attachments from received messages
  4. Changing how the message body font is displayed
  5. Viewing a messageFs source information
  6. Going directly to a message
  7. Searching for messages
  8. Moving and copying messages to another folder

• Email Messages: Composing Email Messages
  1. Composing messages from an account other than the default account
  2. Enabling HTML formatting
  3. Displaying the contacts sidebar
  4. Selecting a recipient type from the drop down menu
  5. Forwarding messages as either inline text or as an attachment
  6. Quoting received messages when replying
  7. Pasting text into a message as a quotation or unformatted
  8. Inserting objects into a message while composing
  9. Adding attachments
  10. Using spell check
  11. Saving a message as a draft or as a message to be sent at a later time
  12. Message templates
  13. Attaching signatures to outgoing messages

• Message Filters
  1. Creating message filters
  2. Deleting message filters
  3. Editing message filters
  4. Reordering message filters

• Offline Access
  1. Making messages available offline
  2. Conserving disk space

• Printing
  1. Printing contacts
  2. Printing an address book
  3. Printing messages

• vCards
  1. Editing vCards
  2. Attaching vCards to outgoing messages

Other Resources

• Introduction to Thunderbird
• Thunderbird FAQ
• Thunderbird Tips and Tricks

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Last modified: Tuesday, 31-Oct-2006 11:44:35 EST

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