Reclaim your inbox with Mozilla Thunderbird
Many of us would have not one, but two or three or even more separate email accounts. Is there an easier way to manage them all without logging in to each one of them and checking for new mails one by one?
There is! The magic software is called an email client. And in this post, I’m gonna show you how to use one free, open-source email client: Mozilla Thunderbird.
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PS: This is my first ever video tutorial 
12 comments
Nada said
August 11, 2010 at 2:04 pm (UTC 12)
HEBAT!! THANKS SYAHIR! Oh. Selamat berpuasa!! May Allah bless u with His Hidayah!
Syahir Hakim said
August 11, 2010 at 9:38 pm (UTC 12)
No worries, Nada
Selamat berpuasa jugak. Rindu berpuasa kat Malaysia dengan keluarga…especially makan sahur pagi!
Nada said
August 26, 2010 at 4:13 am (UTC 12)
Sorry lmbt!
Haha. Comel la, Syahir! Sahur mesti la pagiiii! Tak apa. Few more years to go. N u’ll eb free. time flies, kan!!
hafizkarim said
September 15, 2010 at 6:06 pm (UTC 12)
Slm,
syahir, how about filters made in yahoomail for example. Could it also be applied here?
…. What will happen to our message status in the original webpage? If we read it here in thunderbird, will it still remains ‘unread’ in the webpage?
Syahir Hakim said
September 15, 2010 at 8:24 pm (UTC 12)
Salam,
Nope, I’m pretty sure the filters won’t be applied in Thunderbird if you’re using POP connection. Things may be different if you’re using IMAP though, but I don’t have much experience with IMAP. The thing is, the online application that you use to access your email is itself an email client, like Thunderbird. And these email clients connect to the mail server to get the messages, and do all the sorting themselves. AFAIK, the mail server itself doesn’t sort the emails.
But of course, Thunderbird has its own message filter function, that you can use to set your own filters.
As for the status of the message in the web-based email, that depends on what service you use. I know Gmail keeps the message status as unread, but not sure about Yahoo! and other email services.
Masri said
September 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm (UTC 12)
salam..ko de tnjuk pasal hotmail and gmail account kan.. cam ne ngn yahoo mail. POP x leh gune kan melainkan kite bli account yahoo plus..
Syahir Hakim said
September 22, 2010 at 2:26 pm (UTC 12)
Salam,
Yep, Yahoo! mail takleh, unless ko subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus ke ape tah name die. Tapi, kalau ko pakai Yahoo! Mail UK, i.e. @yahoo.co.uk, boleh gune POP. Aku dari dulu memang dah pakai .co.uk punye Yahoo! Mail.
Wany said
November 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm (UTC 12)
Salam!
This is kinda out of the topic but how do u record what you’re doing?
Syahir Hakim said
November 20, 2010 at 5:52 pm (UTC 12)
Salam,
I used Camtasia to record the screen and edit it.
Wany said
November 22, 2010 at 12:27 am (UTC 12)
Thanks!
I’m a bit disappointed tho coz it won’t work with my uni email =.=’ or did I do it wrongly?
Syahir Hakim said
November 25, 2010 at 11:09 am (UTC 12)
If your uni email is using some customised service, you might need to do some extra steps to enable POP or IMAP access to the email.
My uni for example uses customised Google Accounts for email and other stuffs, and the password that I use to login to the email account through the uni’s website is stored in the uni’s database and not on Google database. To use POP to access the email straight from Google, I had to set up (through the uni’s website) a separate password to be used just for this purpose.
In any case, try searching the FAQs or guides or How-Tos on accessing emails using POP in your uni website. There’s a fairly good chance the information is there. Otherwise, email your uni’s support person and asks for the information.
docile said
January 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm (UTC 12)
Dear Sir,
Syahir I wanted to congratulate you on an excellent video, especially if it was your first tutorial. I watched several other videos on Youtube earlier today, but yours was by far the most informative and I enjoyed the special attention to details that you demonstrated!
Docile