With every release, Thunderbird has become better and better as a personal email client. But over the last few releases, it definitely feels like as its getting better at personal email handling its getting worse for mailing list traffic. I am on a fe… more »

So, the 20th Sept 2009 build for Thunderbird enabled Faceted search, by default. Quite nice. However, when you have nearly 17 GB of email- it can take a long long time to actually build the sqlite index's it needs to carry out this sort of search. La… more »

Over the last few months, I've started using my proper laptop a lot more, and at work as the exclusive desktop interface and moved the 'Desktop' into a VM host. The only issue being that while the Desktop had 8G of ram, the laptop has 'only' 1G. And my e… more »

I totally subscribe to the idea of email being a fantastic communication tool, way better than anything the web has put out as yet, and because its async and works with priority tagging its automatically better than any form of synchronous communication.… more »

I've just had my first ever gpg signed spam email. Yes it is gpg signed, and its signed correctly with a key that seems to not be mentioned anywhere ( or atleast papa google does not know about it ). These guys are still getting better and wiser. Whats n… more »

One new feature I really like in the upcoming Thunderbird 3 tree : thread summaries in the message view pane. Here is an example: Click the image above for a full size view. What makes it even more cool, is that since Thunderbird can already reco… more »

Would someone *please* write an Ignore Thread option for Thunderbird ? P L E A S E ? ? -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [ Music : Snoop Dogg - Drop it like its hot ] more »

So the spammers know when I am likely to be reading email. Now how in the world did they work that out ? or is this just a fluke of somesorts... Here is what's going on - During my waking hours, 8am to 2am, I get between 4500 - 5200 spam + virus hosti… more »

http://cbl.abuseat.org/ -- heard of them before ? I cant work out why they have listed one of my home IP's on their suppression list. The reasons they mention for a listing are : 1. viruses, spyware, adware, open proxies and trojans 2. dynamic… more »

Take a look : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } [Music : Oasis - Keep the Dream Alive ] more »

Looks like something broke with the latest Mozilla Release. ( Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050722 CentOS/1.7.10-1.4.1.centos ), Something that seems to come down from upstream. In some of the cases, you need to select the… more »

Lets start with a simple question. How much spam do you get ? Now split up the real email you get into 3 sections. 1. Real Mail - sent by people, to you, specifically by intent 2. List Mail - sent by people, to a list, of which you are a member 3.… more »