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Top 50 Most Popular Mozilla Thunderbird Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

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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 Mozilla Thunderbird and profit from them, too.

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

(Updated February 2013)

1. 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.

2. How to Find Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile Directory

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

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 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.

5. How to Start Your Reply on Top in Mozilla Thunderbird

Start composing where you prefer: here's how to have Mozilla Thunderbird position the cursor at the top, above quoted text, when you reply.

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 Add an Image to Your Mozilla Thunderbird Signature

Want your logo, a photo or some other graphic to appear in your signature? Here's how to add an image to your signature in Mozilla Thunderbird.

8. 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.

9. How to Import Mail from Mozilla Thunderbird in Gmail

If you move from using Mozilla Thunderbird for your mail to relying mostly on Gmail, here's how to take all your messages with you in a clean and simple fashion.

10. How to Import Mail from Outlook Express in Mozilla Thunderbird

It's easy, fast and effortless to import all your email messages from Outlook Express into Mozilla Thunderbird.

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