However, Thunderbird started to decline after Mozilla moved some of its developers to other projects in 2012, and then cut off most funding in 2015 - leaving Thunderbird’s future entirely up to independent donations. Mozilla originally created Thunderbird alongside the Firefox web browser, with both applications serving as a replacement for the older Mozilla Suite. There’s even an Android app in development. Color-coding for emails is expected to arrive in Thunderbird v114, a universal font size setting is in the works, and some icons are being updated. Thunderbird’s developers have also been answering questions and feature requests, though many of the planned improvements won’t show up for many months. Spaces toolbar (far left side) Thunderbird The account setup process and import/export wizard are being revamped, too, and there’s early support for Matrix messaging directly in Thunderbird. Thunderbird is also working on a new (optional) ‘Spaces Toolbar’, which acts like a tab bar for all of the app’s features, similar to Outlook on the web. The address book will have a refreshed design, with related information divided into cards for easier reading. Click ‘Re-test’.The Thunderbird team revealed its plans for version 102 in a blog post earlier this month, with the update expected to arrive by the end of June 2022.

In ‘Username’ -field write down your entire email address e.g.

if you want Thunderbird to save it and automatically enter it each time you log in.

In ‘Outgoing: (SMTP)’, write your service providers outgoing mail server address. Mozillas open-source, cross-platform email client, Thunderbird.

In ‘Server hostname – Incoming:’, write incoming mail address:.With this you have to be careful with your mailbox filling up and you have to manually erase old messages. This allows you to read your mail from anywhere. IMAP: This protocol shows you messages from your serverside mailbox, and doesn’t erase them.Good thing about this is, that the serverside mailbox will never fill up, but the downside is that you can’t read your messages from anywhere else, but your own computer.

POP3: If this is chosen, the program will automatically download all incoming messages to your PC and erase those messages from server.Choose from ‘Incoming:’ -dropdown list the protocol you wish to use:.

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