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Top 50 Most Popular Mozilla Thunderbird Tips, Tricks and Tutoria

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Thunderbird flies! The free email program from the makers of Mozilla Firefox shines with easy to use yet powerful features — and you can make it fly faster and fly farther. Find out which tips and techniques have helped others get the most out of their Thunderbird and profit from them, too.

When you're done with the most popular, dig deeper and discover more:

1. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Mozilla Thunderbird

Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.

2. How to Access a Free Yahoo! Mail Account in Mozilla Thunderbird

Download mail from your Yahoo! Mail account into Mozilla Thunderbird and send messages through the former from the powerful desktop email program, too.

3. How to Export Mail from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Other Email Programs

Migrate all your mail from Mozilla Thunderbird to Outlook Express, from where you can further export it to other email programs, if necessary.

4. How to Back Up or Copy Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile (Email, Settings,...)

Copy all your Mozilla Thunderbird data (emails, contacts, settings, filters, junk mail training data and more) to a new computer, different partition or backup location.

5. How to Find Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile Directory

Locate the folder that contains your Mozilla Thunderbird messages, filters, settings and more.

6. How to Make Links Work in Outlook Express, Outlook and Any Other Email Program

When you click the link to a web page in an email, nothing happens? Here's how to make links work again and open happily in your browser; works for Outlook, Outlook Express, and just about any other Windows email program.

7. How to Restore a Mozilla Thunderbird Profile from a Backup Copy

Restore Mozilla Thunderbird as it was — on your old computer, or before your hard disk crashed.

8. How to Access a Gmail Account with Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x

When Mozilla Thunderbird spreads its wings and Gmail opens its doors, you can create an account in Mozilla Thunderbird to send and receive Gmail messages.

9. How to Export Contacts from the Mozilla Thunderbird Address Book

If your contacts are in Mozilla Thunderbird but this is not where they should be, you can save them to a CSV file, which in turn allows you to import the email addresses and other details in another program.

10. How to Import Your Gmail Contacts into Mozilla Thunderbird

If you access your Gmail account in Mozilla Thunderbird, how about importing your contacts, too? Here's how to copy your Gmail address book to Mozilla Thunderbird.

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