Category: EMail

Dec24

Thunderbird sizing issues

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 24/Dec/2009  ~  Posted in: EMail  ~  2 feedbacks »

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 »
Sep14

Faceted global search for Mozilla Thunderbird

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 14/Sep/2009  ~  Posted in: EMail  ~  5 feedbacks »

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 »
Aug14

Thunderbird, ram and maturity

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 14/Aug/2009  ~  Posted in: Linux, EMail  ~  20 feedbacks »

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 »
Jul29

spam and training spam

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 29/Jul/2009  ~  Posted in: Linux, Internet, Software, EMail, Spam  ~  4 feedbacks »

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 »
Jun15

Gpg signed spam

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 15/Jun/2009  ~  Posted in: Linux, EMail  ~  5 feedbacks »

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 »
Jun13

Thread summaries in thunderbird 3

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 13/Jun/2009  ~  Posted in: Linux, EMail  ~  2 feedbacks »

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 »
Aug23

Thunderbird and Ignore thread option

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 23/Aug/2006  ~  Posted in: Software, EMail  ~  3 feedbacks »

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 »
Jan21

Sleep cycle and Spam

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 21/Jan/2006  ~  Posted in: EMail  ~  Send feedback »

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 »
Dec05

got listed at cbl.abuseat.org

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 05/Dec/2005  ~  Posted in: EMail, Spam  ~  9 feedbacks »

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 »
Aug09

Webmail in Thunderbird

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 09/Aug/2005  ~  Posted in: EMail  ~  1 feedback »

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 »
Jul25
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 »
Jun10

To Bayes or not to Bayes

Posted by Karanbir Singh on 10/Jun/2005  ~  Posted in: EMail, Spam  ~  3 feedbacks »

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 »