E-mail privacy is important to you... and if it's not, it probably should be. Think about all the private and personal information that's sent through email. Think too that an email is considered to be as good as a signature in an increasing number of situations and jurisdictions and email security becomes that much more important. Thunderbird protects your email security and privacy by putting you in control.

Spam or other junk mail

is the bane of e-mail users everywhere. It seems that spammers never tire of trying to find new ways to infiltrate your inbox. Thunderbird quickly learns what is and what is not spam to make sure you're not bothered by as much of this email annoyance.

The Thunderbird address book is where you'll keep all your online and offline contacts organized. If you're making the

switch to Thunderbird

from Outlook, Eudora or another email client you can easily

import your contacts and even your mail and settings

from said email client.

Even when you keep your inbox organized with folders, things sometimes go missing. You know you got an email about an upcoming project, but you can't seem to find it.

Searching email in Thunderbird

is a quick way to

recover a lost email

; if you remember a few words, you can punch them into the search box and quickly

find that missing email

.

Folders are a simple way to

organize your inbox

. You can keep all your work emails straight, your personal emails sorted and your other emails organized. Thunderbird offers a variety of folder options that make it easy to

take control of your inbox

and

keep your email inbox organized

.

Whether you get a little bit of email or a lot it helps to have it organized using a good system. Thunderbird makes it easy to tag and filter your email. This way, you can

keep your inbox organized

and

filter email in Thunderbird

.

Whether you get a little bit of email or a lot it helps to have it organized using a good system. Thunderbird is an email client from the Mozilla Foundation, the same folks that produce Firefox. It's loaded with cool features to help you do email with as little fuss as possible. This 10-part series will cover some of the basics.

Most

email clients

have built in some form of

spam protection

. Most anti-virus programs also offer

spam filtering

. This protection is designed to "filter" out unwanted email. While it may not catch all

email spam

, it's a great first step and generally, the least intrusive method for dealing with spam and other junk email.

Spam

. Depending on your tastes it's a a) delicious or b) vile canned meat product from Hormel. If you're a computer user there is no a) / b) proposition; spam sucks. Michael "Doctor File Finder" explains

what exactly spam is

and how to eradicate or, at least, lessen its impact on your inbox. Spam is the plague of the Internet and nearly 90% of all the email that's sent is spam. We'll show you some ways to

reduce the amount of spam

you have to deal with.