Thunderbird Gets Do Not Track Privacy Function – Stops Tracking You Via Email

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The popular email client Thunderbird gets Do Not Track privacy function – a privacy feature available on all major browsers to enable users to opt out of being tracked on websites. Mozilla has already implanted Do Not Track in the latest nightly build of Thunderbird 15, which enables users to set their email client to [...]

Thunderbird 13 Will Have Built In Instant Messaging System

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Mozilla is working on its popular open source e-mail client Thunderbird to make it more usable and feature rich. For example, the upcoming Thunderbird 13 will have built-in instant messaging system that allows you to IM right from Thunderbird. IM chat is already available in the latest nightly builds.

Fix for Avast antivirus 5 e-mail scanning issue

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Avast antivirus is one of the most popular free security software for Windows and Linux that gives a bunch of system protection ranging from antivirus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, rootkit, email and messenger scanning, etc. The Mail Shield in the latest release of Avast 5.x may not scan some incoming and or outgoing e-mails. This is [...]

How to check website links inside your thunderbird?

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Opening website links (received via email messages) directly from email client like Thunderbird or Outlook in your default browser may involve a potential security risk. If you can check the link destination before opening the link in your default browser might be good. For Thunderbird, you can integrate a mini browser in it with the [...]