Email-calendar

Okay, so all backed up and ready to move?
Yes, it's time to swoop: Thunderbird.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 is reloaded and more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. Read on.

• Your Mail, Your Way: Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox. Thunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time. It also offers Advanced Folder Views, a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages. You can also set up RSS (remember that?) and newsgroups. It also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar.

• Message Tagging: It allows you to “tag” messages with descriptors such as “To Do” or “Done” or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

• Improved Search: It features a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms. Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store common searches as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.

• Secure and Protect Your Mail: Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. With Phishing Protection, Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defence, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.

• Cutting Out the Junk: Mozilla has updated Thunderbird’s popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird “learns” and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird can also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.

• Open Source, More Secure: At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. The openness and active community of experts helps to ensure these products are more secure and updated quickly.

• Automated Update: Thunderbird’s update system checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small, giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install.

• Outfit Your Inbox: Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbird’s functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons. A Thunderbird add-on can let you manage contacts, place voice over IP calls, listen to music, and keep track of birthdays all from your inbox. You can even change the appearance of Thunderbird to suit your tastes.

And among these outfits, we are choosing - for now:

• The Lightning Calendar extension is tightly integrated with Thunderbird, allowing it to easily perform email-related calendaring tasks. Manage your tasks, appointments, and meetings - irrespective of what email software others use!
  
• The British English dictionary: For those who are fussy about using the Queen's English.

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So, what are you waiting for?

Where can I download the software?
To download Thunderbird, go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
For Lightning, go to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html
For the dictionary, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3366
Or contact Rakesh Kumar (Bangalore); Richa ( Mumbai); Nitin Kale (Gurgaon). They can share their downloaded copy of the software.

Important settings:

You name, email_id, and POP & SMTP settings.

Incoming: pop.rediffmailpro.com
Out going: smtp.rediffmailpro.com

How do I import e-mail messages from another mail program?
Go to Tools > Import, which will bring up a dialog to guide you through the process.
Note: Thunderbird does not support special characters (e.g. / and #) in mail folders. If you receive the following error: Unable to import mailboxes, cannot create proxy object for destination mailboxes, open Outlook (or Outlook Express) and rename your folders. Then try importing again.

How do I import my address Book from your ibexi mail account?
Instructions are attached. (File: How to add address book.zip)

Need more help?
Install: http://learn.pcc.com/thunderbird/tbinstall.html
Import from Outlook: http://support.real-time.com/tbird/outlook_import.html
Thunderbird configuration: http://learn.pcc.com/thunderbird/tbconfig.html
FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq

And of course, the change champs, who can help you out, if you really need help.
Rakesh Kumar, Dhiraj Tiwary, Anirban Rakshit

Let's go. Reclaim our inbox, and our calendar.

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Regards,
Surajit Basu

www.ibexi.com
Reflecting on the future

"Be the change you want to see"
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi