Using email. Some relate to the free, open source, multi-platform Thunderbird from Mozilla.
There's a tool for exporting "everything". Of course you should use that need occasionally, or other techniques, to back up your Thunderbird assets generally... it includes your messages. But what if you want to take a copy of just your contacts. Take a copy that you can use in any general app? Easy! Use Tools/ …
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"Lost" a message you put in a folder that has sub-folders? Having trouble finding a setting? I was! Because I just assumed that Thunderbird folders and settings work the way I'm used to such things working... in apps. In fact, Thunderbird quite sensibly does what Windows (and many other systems) have done for a very …
There was a time when ordinary people never wrote words to a computer or smartphone screen. Lines ended where the author decided to end the line. And if he/she wrote... I am no poet I have no art But do my part ... then that STAYED at three lines, each of four words. Which was …
"In the beginning... " all emails consisted solely of "plain text". Then people wanted "more", and the programmers delivered. Then the marketing people started pushing for "give them anything they want... and don't count the cost." So now we can do (almost) anything... and sometimes it works. In The Good Old Days, if I sent …
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