Thunderbird - The ultimate solution for digital scrapbookers to manage multiple email accounts.

Everyone is using Firefox & loving it as a browser! but did you know that there is also an email client (it used to be Netscape)? And it does one fantastic job of arranging all of your emails into a file tree. The email can be coming in from a variety of addresses and when you send out - it appears as if it’s coming from that address. So for example, I have both a DigiScrapInfo.com email address and a gmail address coming in. The first has a signature & the gmail doesn’t - so they act independently. You can create folders & sort your mail in whichever way suits you! And one day I realized that I can drag email from one account to the other.

It’s free! and there are two things involved:

1) Install Thunderbird from here (and we also recommend the Firefox browser too)
2) and to change Gmail into a pop account - meaning that Thunderbird (the email client) reads it and when it’s sent out - it appears to be sent from Gmail too. (if you have Yahoo - you can pay to do the same - but I chose to not send them money… no way). Other email services may work - especially from websites. (I have instructions that are easy to follow).

It only takes about 15 minutes to set up. Tonite I helped someone add a 2nd account that wasn’t gmail and I can post those instructions if you’d like them? And this is a personal issue I have - but as a recipient, it makes me so irritated …to have to scroll down to read replies - please change your preference to put your reply above the quote;

1) in Thunderbird - go to Tools | Account Settings
Composition & Addressing — change the pull down to: ‘Start my reply ABOVE the quote’
There is also a blog reader that can be added. This is a huge timesaver if you love reading digiscrapping blogs! You can subscribe to them & see when they’re updated.

And finally, someone had wanted Thunderbird to sort their email as it came in into folders. So here are those instr’s.

Enjoy!

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