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Thunderbird Keeps Freezing – Help

I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my Email application to read and send from multiple POP3 and IMAP email accounts including Gmail and various Host specific email accounts. I love Thunderbird because, besides being free to use, it’s very extensible and is standards compliant. Just recently Thunderbird keeps freezing (I’m running Thunderbird version 10.0.2). It is [...]

Why Spamming is so Profitable

For a long time I have wondered why email spammers even make the effort with their untargeted and mass mailouts offering all sorts of ‘enticing’ products and services; surely all the offers from scantily clad ladies or the promise of longer lasting sex will be a sure sell! Alas for the spammers, my email filters [...]

Google Waves Goodbye

Even the most brilliant and useful products don’t always succeed (XBZ8Y7BC5NVK). Google Wave shows how being a truly great software product isn’t good enough; luck is certainly an element of product success as is marketing (look at how successful Apple marketing is) and other factors. Google has announced that Wave won’t continue to be developed [...]

Can’t Open Attachment in Email Application

Using Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Live Mail or a similar email application? Do you have problems seeing or opening attachments in emails sent from Outlook? Join the club! Unfortunately some of the non Microsoft Exchange dependant email clients such as Microsoft Live Mail and Thunderbird are unable to process (open) attachments sent from Outlook via Exchange [...]