If you’ve just installed Thunderbird on Fedora 13, you’ve probably noticed the Global Search bar is missing. At least, this is one of the first things I noticed. After using Thunderbird 3.x for sometime on Windows I’ve really come to love this feature. It seems the default configuration on Fedora doesn’t enable this feature by [...]
When using email, you should always keep the following rules suggestions in mind. Most of these apply to mailing lists, but could just as easily make any email communication (and maybe even instant messaging) better. First, don’t top post. Not only is top posting counter-productive it is annoying. Also, if the person before you sucks [...]
Google added a “always use HTTPS” setting to Gmail recently. Very nice addition. No more adding https:// myself and even more importantly, no more forgetting to add it. I’d recommend that anyone using Gmail enable this option. While email is plain text over the public Ineternet and shouldn’t even remotly be treated as secure communications, [...]
I was going to post today on why I think email has losts it’s appeal in the last few years. Instead, I’m going to share a very good series of posts with from another blog I’ve been reading lately online… There is a nice series over at 43folders on managing your inbox. The series goes [...]