Reclaim your inbox the Thunderbird way

October 10, 2008 · Posted in Technology · 2 Comments 

Everyone who has used an email client like Outlook knows that it makes email tasks like composing and formatting messages and even attaching files to your emails enjoyable, quick and easy. The problem is some of us operate on a shoe-string budget, we cannot afford to by Mr Gates’ email client and to pay for a personal email account with  the commercial email service providers.

Well the good news is for starters, as I know we all know, you can open a free Gmail account from Google. Now Gmail enables you to access your email from an easy to use desktop client like Outlook (or even your phone). Ah but we can’t afford Outlook, you say. That’s where open source software comes in. Read more