#8
/ November 11, 2009 / 3:01 min.
Filtering e-mail in Thunderbird
Filters are a powerful way to keep your inbox organized. You can tell Thunderbird what to do when you receive an email that meets a filter's requirements; label it, move it to a folder, forward a copy to another account, delete it, mark it as junk and more. You'll reach inbox zero in no time!
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show notes
Download Thunderbird and follow along with our series
- Click on Tools and select Message Filters.
- Click on New to create a new message filters.
- Select from the filtering criteria. For example "Subject contains help."
- Click on the plus symbol to add more criteria to your filter.
- Give your filter a name in the text box at the top of the Filter Rules page.
- Under the Perform these actions: heading, select what you want to happen when a message meeting your filter requirements is received: Move the message to a different inbox or folder, forward the message, etc.
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#1
/ November 2, 2009 / 1:02 min.
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.
#2
/ November 3, 2009 / 2:42 min.
Chances are, you have
multiple email addresses
. One for personal, one given to you by the office, one for social networking, perhaps one that's just for family and close friends.
Thunderbird makes it easy to set up and manage multiple email accounts. You can even easily set up your free email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo! and
Gmail in Thunderbird
. Here's how.
#3
/ November 4, 2009 / 2:20 min.
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
.
#4
/ November 5, 2009 / 2:15 min.
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
.
#5
/ November 6, 2009 / 3:22 min.
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.
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
.
#6
/ November 9, 2009 / 3:44 min.
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.
#7
/ November 10, 2009 / 2:34 min.
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.
#8
/ November 11, 2009 / 3:01 min.
Filters are a powerful way to keep your inbox organized. You can tell
Thunderbird what to do when you receive an email that meets a filter's requirements; label it, move it to a folder, forward a copy to another account, delete it, mark it as junk and more. You'll reach
inbox zero in no time!
#9
/ November 12, 2009 / 2:14 min.
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.
#10
/ November 13, 2009 / 1:40 min.
Thunderbird is a powerful email client. However, like it's brother Firefox, Thunderbird has a user community creating tons of great
add-ons to enhance Thunderbird's functionality. Doc shows us where to
find add-ons for Thunderbird
and how to install them.
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