Most people have more than one email account. For instance one account for work or business and another account for personal or private correspondences.
In most cases, these email accounts are attended to , one at a time by going through the web browser to the provider's web page e.g. Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail accounts. People that can afford it get expensive email clients like the Outlook software that is part of Microsoft Office Suite. There are other email clients that can do the job, some of them are eM Client, Windows Live mail ( for window users with original copy of the software), claw mail. There are a few others that search on Google might reveal, but none does the job as well as Thunderbird email clients ( made by Mozilla Foundation, the same people that made the Firefox web browser
). This software has got to be the best email client for its price (which is free by the way). It does not come with all the functionality of high end email clients like Outlook Exchange ,it is not far off. It is so good that there's been need for comparison. Click on the link Thunderbird & Outlook Compared
Getting Thunderbird is quite easy, just google thunderbird email client and a link to the Mozilla Thunderbird website will show up in your search result. The page should look like the one below
Clicking on 'free download', selects the right software to install according to the operating system of machine. If that fails, clicking on 'Systems and Languages' brings out a page showing languages and operating systems that the software comes, just like the link says. Installation should be fairly straight forward from here on out. The English languge sections will appear just as shown below.
After installation, the next step is adding of email accounts, which is again quite straight foward. Clicking on 'File' will shows options of setting up a 'New Email Account' or an 'Existing Email Account'. The 'New Email Account' is for setting up an email account from scratch, thunderbird provides email accounts to user. The 'Existing Email Account' is for setting up an existing email account, a gmail, yahoo account or a domain email account ( the email account account that comes with a website) for example. The account set up page looks as shown below.
The setup process is simply filling out the the mail account setup form, typing in name your email account and password. The software automatically verifies the mail address and checks the validity of the password and the account is set up. Shown below is what the software looks like with Gmail, Hotmail and a domain mail account added.
Pressing the 'N' key displays the next email. There's a prompt when moving to the next mail account. Sending emails is done by clicking on the 'Write' button, it is possible to send email from any account of the account when the 'Send Mail' page is displayed. Clicking on the 'From' section of the page displays a drop- down box showing all email accounts from which one can be selected as shown below.
There are add-ons to import contacts from Google, for Calendar, for instant messaging from providers like Facebook and Google. Download this software and see what it can do for you.
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