This means the Thunderbird 6 Easy-Email Guides are valid for newer versions of Thunderbird as well.

Should this change we will release a new version of the guide and anyone who has purchased a Thunderbird 6 Advanced Guide will be entitled to a free upgrade.

We have updated our guides so you can setup Easy-Email without any problems.

When you subscribe to our list you will now get links to both version 3.x and version 5.x of Thunderbird.

Many of the updates to Thunderbird are ‘behind the scenes’. They have updated the engine that runs the user interface, but they have kept most of the layouts and dialog boxes as they were before.

We have taken the opportunity to make a few other minor updates to the guides, so they are now better than ever

Have fun!

Anders

Copying Thunderbird 3 settings from Windows to Windows is really easy.

There’s a free download that you can use called MozBackup. The link is at the bottom of this article.
Steps:

• Install MozBackup on your main computer.
• Backup your Thunderbird profile.
• Copy the backup to your secondary computer.
• Install MozBackup on your secondary computer.
• Restore your profile from the backup.

If you would like step by step instructions please refer to the Appendix in the Thunderbird 3.0 Essential Guide.

If you want to copy your Thunderbird settings between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux there are a couple more steps involved but it’s not complicated.

I’ll refer to the computers as main computer – the one you’ve set up – and second computer – the one to which you are copying the settings. The menus shown are for copying settings from Windows to Mac OS X, but the steps are the same regardless of which operating systems you use.

Important! All the settings and email stored in Thunderbird on the second computer will be removed. This guide is designed with a new installation of Thunderbird in mind. If you have emails and contacts you wish to keep on your second computer you have to setup an account to synchronize with Gmail, copy your old emails to your Gmail account, and synchronize your contacts with Gmail before you continue. For details on how to do this please read the Thunderbird Essential Guide.

The key steps are:
1. Find the location of your Thunderbird profile on your main computer.
2. Copy your profile from your main computer to a USB drive.
3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to your second computer.
4. Verify paths to mail folders and signatures.

1. Find the location of your Thunderbird profile
The location of your Thunderbird profile folder depends on the operating system you use. If you are unsure of the location you can verify it in Thunderbird.

• Go to the Tools → Account Settings… window (Edit → Account Settings… on Linux).

• Select the Server Settings tab on your account.

• Click the Browse button to verify the location of your mail folder for this account.
Make a note of the folder location.

• Now click on the Local Folders tab.
Then click on Browse.

• Make a note of the location.

2. Copy your profile from your main computer to a USB drive
To copy your profile on to a USB drive simply shut down Thunderbird and go to the folder where your profile is stored. Your name will be different.

Note: You may have issues with hidden folders in Linux and Windows. Tips on how to find them are in the Thunderbird Essential Guide.

Make sure you have enough free space on your USB drive before you copy the profile folder.
Now copy the xxxxxxxx.default folder to your USB drive.

3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to the second computer
On your second computer we will copy the contents of the profile folder from the USB drive.

• Install Thunderbird

• Start Thunderbird for the first time so the profile folder gets created.

You do not need to create an account since we are going to overwrite all the settings anyway.

• Shut down Thunderbird.

• Navigate to the profile folder.

Notice how the profile name is different to that of the old computer.

• Open the yyyyyyyy.default folder and delete all the contents of the folder.

Do not delete the yyyyyyyy.default folder – only the contents of the folder!

Important! This will remove all email and settings you have stored on Thunderbird if you already have Thunderbird on this computer. Only do this if you do not wish to keep the old emails.

• On your USB drive open the profile folder from your main computer.

• Copy the contents of the xxxxxxxx.default folder on the USB drive into the yyyyyyyy.default folder on your second computer.

It is important that you do not change the name of the yyyyyyyy.default folder.

4. Verify paths to mail folders and signatures

If you find that the email folders do not appear correctly you will need to verify the folder locations.

• Start Thunderbird again.

• Go to Tools → Account Settings…

• On the Server Settings tab verify the location of your email folders.

• On the Local Folders tab verify the location of your local folders.

• Click on the My Mail IMAP tab.

• Verify that your signatures are set up correctly.

If your signatures are stored in external files you will need to copy these from your main computer too. If you entered your signature in Thunderbird it should be set up correctly.

Full instructions on how to set this up can be found at ThunderbirdSync.com where you can get your free copy of the Easy-Email Essential Guide to Thunderbird.

To download MozBackup go to
Mozbackup.Jasnapaka.com

www.thunderbirdsync.com. The Gmail Thunderbird combination is very powerful. You can set up Thunderbird to sync with Gmail so you can access all your email, online or offline via Thunderbird on your own computers and also access your email anywhere using Gmail. With this easy email solution you can sync your laptop with your work computer, your home computer, your mobile devices and any other computers you like. All your email is perfectly and automatically synchronized on all your devices. You can even setup Thunderbird to sync with another email client via Gmail – on PC or Mac! At the Thunderbird Sync site you’ll find more videos showing how to do this, plus a free guide with clear instructions and screenshots.

I currently have a hotmail account which is set up on my iphone, and set up on thunderbird (the same account). However, when i read my emails on my iphone, they are marked as new still on my thunderbird account (visa versa). Is there anyway to sync my email with my iphone, so that when i get an email and i read it, it has been opened and read on my thunderbird account
.

Thanks,

Best answer:

Answer by AndersVinther
Yes, this can be done. You will have to use a technology called IMAP (as opposed to POP), which allows you to leave email on the mail server and have multiple devices (your thunderbird and iphone for instance) access the mail (and get the same view of read/unread, sent emails, folder etc).

Unfortunately Hotmail cannot be accessed using IMAP, so you will have to do work around this.

It is actually not that difficult.
1. Create a free Gmail account (you do not have to send email using this account, and you can still send and receive from your hotmail address).
2. Enable IMAP on your Gmail account.
3. Setup Gmail to send and receive email from your hotmail address. You can also import all your email from hotmail to your Gmail account, so it will be availabe on Thunderbird and your iPhone).
4. Setup your thunderbird and your iPhone to access your Gmail account.

You can see a video here that explains how it works: http://www.easy-email.net/thunderbird/thunderbird-sync/thunderbird-sync
And instructions for setting up your iPhone are here: http://www.easy-email.net/mobile-devices/mobile-devices-setup/mobile-devices-setup

You can also download a step-by-step guide, which explains the procedure on http://www.Easy-Email.net

Add your own answer in the comments!

Steps:

Sync Thunderbird with Gmail-imap

You

1. Enable IMAP in Gmail.
2. In Thunderbird v.2.0 and higher (in summary):

- Choose IMAP (logic)
- Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com
- Port: 993
- Security: SSL

Sync Thunderbird with Gmail-imap

You

- Check the 2 boxes “Check the mail to launch” and “Check for new messages every …”.

- Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
- Port: 587
- Security: TSL
- Do not forget to check the “Use a user name and password.

See link above for more details with pictures.
Configuring Thunderbird using Gmail-Imap

The advantage of IMAP over POP3 is that all possible changes that you made in the Thunderbird will be also made in Gmail. The corresponding folders in thunderbird to Gmail labels. So you work directly on the gmail server and not local and you can also download to your pc the messages contained in a / the file (s) (read (s)).

Steps:

1. Enable IMAP in Gmail.
2. In Thunderbird v.2.0 and higher (in summary):

- Choose IMAP (logic)
- Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com
- Port: 993
- Security: SSL
- Check the 2 boxes “Check the mail to launch” and “Check for new messages every …”.

- Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
- Port: 587
- Security: TSL
- Do not forget to check the “Use a user name and password.

See link above for more details with pictures.
Configuring Thunderbird using Gmail-Imap

The advantage of IMAP over POP3 is that all possible changes that you made in the Thunderbird will be also made in Gmail. The corresponding folders in thunderbird to Gmail labels. So you work directly on the gmail server and not local and you can also download to your pc the messages contained in a / the file (s) (read (s)).

Steps:

1. Enable IMAP in Gmail.
2. In Thunderbird v.2.0 and higher (in summary):

- Choose IMAP (logic)
- Incoming Server: imap.gmail.com
- Port: 993
- Security: SSL
- Check the 2 boxes “Check the mail to launch” and “Check for new messages every …”.

- Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
- Port: 587
- Security: TSL
- Do not forget to check the “Use a user name and password.

See link above for more details with pictures.
Configuring Thunderbird using Gmail-Imap

The advantage of IMAP over POP3 is that all possible changes that you made in the Thunderbird will be also made in Gmail. The corresponding folders in thunderbird to Gmail labels. So you work directly on the gmail server and not local and you can also download to your pc the messages contained in a / the file (s) (read (s)).

tech-buzz.net – Thunderbird is undoubtedly the best email client around, but the only thing missing out of it is a simple calendar. With a combination of Thunderbird, Lighting and Provider for Google Calendar it would be a Outlook Killer!

Best answer:

Answer by TienChieh Lim
You need to go to Thunderbird web site to check if it is possible.

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If you need to transfer all emails from one computer to another, from one email client to another or from one operating system to another you can easily get a simple and easy guide needed to transfer your email at http://www.transfer-email.com.

There are probably many perfectly beneficial ways of transferring your email but here are 10 extremely good reasons for working with the transfer email guides:

1. These guides are written particularly with regards to your needs e.g. Thundebird to Outlook 2007 as well as Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail. There’s no guesswork, it really is an accurate match.

2. It truely does work! (typically the obvious here but a good deal advice the user gets for free on the internet doesn’t work or merely offer you a a half answer) When the guide you may need is written it means that it has been tested that’s why it works.

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5. Making use of this system you won’t come upon compatibility issues – even if you’re moving email from a PC to a Mac or Linux to a PC

6. What’s more, it shows how one can move your contacts and signatures

7. There’s a money back guarantee – if you cannot get it to work you get a refund

8. There’s a support forum anytime you need help it’s actually there

9. You won’t waste time shopping around for other solutions that may or might not exactly work (be careful of “free” advice, it may possibly cost you”)

10. Should you use way more than one computer and you want to synchronize your email once you have performed the initial transfer, it’s an easy next step towards the Easy-Email synchronization setup.

The transfer email guides cost just US. Guides are available from Outlook Express to a number of other email clients, from Thunderbird, from Outlook 2003, from Windows Mail…

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www.easy-email.net This is the 4th step in synchronizing your email on multiple computers using Thunderbird. This video also shows how to bring all your old emails from your old pop account into your new imap account. To get all of the videos go to www.Easy-Email.net. The gmail thunderbird combination is really powerful and it is our recommended solution.
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