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How to Import Emails and Contacts From Outlook to Thunderbird

Sometimes it may be necessary for you to import all email messages and contacts from your Outlook to your new Thunderbird email client. If you’re new to Thunderbird and find this job is difficult, here is how you can do that quickly. To import contacts from Outlook: Run Thunderbird, from the main window click on Tools and then Import. Then click on the Address Books radio button, and then click on Next. Choose Outlook and then click on Next. If you get any error messages, launch Outlook and set it as the default mail client. Go back and repeat the procedure once again. It’ll import all the contacts successfully. Click on Finish to return to Thunderbird main window. To view the imported contact information, click on Address Book tab. To import email messages from Outlook: Click on Tools and then Import. Click on the Mail radio button and then click on Next. Choose Outlook and then click on Next. It’ll show a summary of all the messages that were imported. Click on Finish to go back to ...

Backup Emails, Profiles, Address book, Themes, Extensions and more of Thunderbird 3 with TEBE

Thunderbird Environment Backup Extension (TEBE) is a nifty tool that allows you to instantly backup all your installed thunderbird Extensions along with themes, address book, message folders, profiles and more. This new release (beta) for Thunderbird 3.0b1 -3.1 comes with few bug fixes, and allows automatic or manual Backup. You can schedule the backups on daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Moreover it allows uploading the backups to your Box.net account which may help you to synchronize Thunderbird in your Home or Office. Download Thunderbird Environment Backup Extension for Thunderbird 3 ( to install the extension, download the zip file and change the zip extension to xpi and click Tool menu – Add on – Extensions – Install )

Thunderbird 3 Lets Anybody to Setup an Email Account Without Knowing IMAP, POP3, SSL, TLS settings

Mozilla has just released its new, open source email client Thunderbird 3 . Now it is better than ever with a whole new bunch of features like message archiving, tabbed email, new search feature and security. One notable feature of this new release is that anyone can setup an email account without any knowledge of those IMAP, POP3, SSL or TLS settings . Just give your email account and password, Thunderbird 3 will do the rest. With a clutter free and clean interface, Thunderbird 3 is a worthy successor. This new release certainly will change your email experience. You can read complete features here . Download Thunderbird 3 / Portable Thunderbird 3

How to bookmarks important emails in Thunderbird?

Certainly there are a few emails that we need to read again. May be they have important login information or software license keys or you can't attend it right now but want to keep it handy. But with lots of mails nowadays, finding for those important emails can be bit difficult at times. Maybe you don't remember its folder or how to look for it. If you are using Thunderbird for receiving your mails, here is a solution for that. The email book marking tool eMarks for Thunderbird helps you bookmark your important emails. With the eMarks add-on you can add, rename, delete, and order your bookmarks easily. To install the add-on , just download it from here. Open your Thunderbird. Click on Tools - Add-ons and click on ‘Install’ button. Select the downloaded file and install it. The add-on adds a new menu in the menu bar. Click on this to book mark a mail.

How to backup and archive emails from different services into a centralized place?

Archiving and backing up of emails are important in order to find an important data quickly and easily whenever required. Of course you could store your emails in the cloud with services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc or could be archive them with email clients like Outlook, but MailStore Home does all these jobs excellently. It could archives and consolidates all email messages from different cervices in a centralized place. You can imports mails from many different email services (Gmail, Yahoo mail) and software (Outlook, Thunderbird, POP3/IMAP), and offers lightning-fast search. You can find an important data quickly by searching through your archive, even if you use multiple services for your emails. Most important features of MailStore Home are: 1. Easy to use-anyone can configure it, 2. Search all your email within fractions of a second (incl. the contents of attached documents), 3. Integrated CD/DVD burning utility to backup your archives with just one click, 4. To conse...

How to backup Thunderbird settings and messages?

In some situation, for instance when re-installing your operating system, you may be wanted to back up all settings and messages from your email client (e.g. Thunderbird) to restore all its previous settings. Thunderbird Backup utility is an easy to use, powerful backup tool which will backup all your emails and settings from Thunderbird. This tool can backup all profiles from current user. Using this program is simple. Download the software from the official website (freeware, 1.2Mb) and install it. Run it and wait until the searching finishes (below 1 minute). Check the item shown on main window, and then click on ‘Backup” button. A new window popping up, if necessary you add a file name here, clicks on ‘Start backup’, button, that’s all. To restore it, after a fresh installation of Thunderbird, Click on ‘Restore Wizard’ button and follow the simple instructions. Features of the program: Easy to use - Just few clicks you can start the backup process Time stamp - Output filename can...

How to add background image to message in Thunderbird?

In some occasions may be you want to add a background image to your mail message. Here is how to add a background image to your email message in Thunderbird. First of all create a new message in Thunderbird by clicking on the menu ‘Write’. In the new message window select ‘Options’ and click on ‘Format’ and make sure that ‘Auto Detect’ is selected, if not select it. Now click on ‘Format’ from the menu in the message Window. Now click on ‘Page colors and Background’ and in the subsequent dialogue box, click on the ‘Choose file’ button. Select a desired image you want to insert as the background, click ok to save. Remember to change font color and other parameters to suite your background image.