As Web-based e-mail gets more sophisticated, its features come to desktop Thunderbird software

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How To Use GMail for Corporate Email Filtering (Free)

GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime.

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How To Automatically Reply To Email in ThunderBird

Thunderbird 2 added the exciting feature to automatically respond to messages (yeah, I can hear Microsoft Outlook folks shaking their heads in irritation, we had it for years in MS Outlook) with an email template. Let's see how we can set it up.

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Thunderbird: How To Automatically Forward Email in Certain Folders?

I solve this problem in a different way. Normally we write rules to send messages to a particular folder. In that rule I set one of the action as to also forward the email. Remember to use one of the email accounts for specifying your rule, otherwise your forwarding will fail. Read the details on forwarding emails in Thunderbird here.

Solving Failure To Forward Emails in Mozilla Thunderbird by Message Filters; Understanding Thunderbird Account Architecture

I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters. I can normally forward emails. I can also execute other actions in the message filters except forwarding. It fails with a simple error message: "Sending of message failed". The simple solution lies in understanding the design of email accounts & message filters in Thunderbird, as described below in details.

BTW: At one point before solving this problem I even thought about switching to Evolution. And I am not alone. Several people posted the same problem on Mozilla forum without getting any solution.
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