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Linux.com has another great article up, this time re-reviewing text email clients. You may ask, “Why use a text email client nowadays, when there are so many GUI-based clients available in all distributions?” And I have an easy answer for you: Try running KMail/Kontact/Thunderbird/Evolution over a console-based SSH connection. Doesn’t work ‘cuz there’s no X [...]

Big thanks to  to iSpider.pl for pointing me towards FreeEnigma, a Firefox extension which can encrypt/decrypt webmail messages on the fly:
FreeEnigma brings cryptography to webmail, with an ingenious set of free and open browser plug-ins that work with Yahoo, Gmail, and others. The plugins implement a version of GPG (the free/open version of Pretty [...]

Tetsou’s article regarding the “7 Deadly Sins of Email amused me, because I am guilty of at least a couple of the sins. Email is not my strong point. I prefer to stay in touch with people via email, but I am notoriously bad at actually replying to email. So the seventh sin
7. Failure to [...]

Get in on the Yahoo! Mail Beta right now! Download Squad has step-by-step directions for forcing your way into the Yahoo! Mail beta:
Been dying to try the new AJAXed-out Yahoo! Mail Beta? Well it turns out it only takes a few simple steps to switch your Yahoo! Mail account over to the new hotness.
It actually [...]

Procmail can be either a blessing or a curse. Once you get the hang of the syntax and write a few recipes, it can be a major timesaver. But learning the syntax can be a real pain in the ass. Fortunately, there are a few great tutorials on procmail. And linux.com has a primer for [...]

This looks like a fun activity: hack email headers to mess with Outlook user’s heads!
Microsoft Outlook uses a rectangular bar above the message header to display information and warnings about the message you’re reading. It may report that you replied on such a date, that an attachment was suppressed, or that line breaks have been [...]

Okay. First there was BlogThis! Then there were single-click bookmarklets to add a page to del.icio.us. Now there is GmailThis! - a bookmarklet that allows one-click access to composing via GMail:
GmailThis! is an easy way to make a Gmail email without visiting mail.google.com. Once you add the GmailThis! link to your browser’s toolbar, emailing will [...]

NewsForge is running a nifty little article detailling some Extensions for Thunderbird. Firefox’s email counterpart includes Firefox’s ability to have features added via small program plugins named Extensions. While Thunderbird doesn’t have nearly the number of Extensions as Firefox, it does have some really good ones. My favorite are all listed in this article, including [...]

I don’t know that this visual comparison of Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird accomplishes much, but it does show that the Thunderbird team used OE’s user interface as their blueprint for Thunderbird. Probably not a bad idea, as its easier to get users to switch to something that looks and acts like they expect it [...]

In case you haven’t noticed by now, I like to keep track of small hints and tips that I find in articles, even if the hint or tip wasn’t the main focus of the story. Such is the case with LinuxJournal’s “Ten Mysteries of about:config” article. Sure, there’s a ton of great information on using [...]