If you use Thunderbird ver 78.3.2, gContactSync extension will not work anymore. To fetch Google Contacts into Thunderbird, use the CardBook extension.
Category: Email
How to save an email in the .eml format
To save an email in the .eml format, follow the steps below: Login to the email accountIf Conversation view is enabled, then disable it. In GMail, this is in the Settings optionDownload the email as .eml format. Once above steps are done, the email is available in the .eml format. In some email services, this … Continue reading How to save an email in the .eml format
Synchronize Google Calendar with Thunderbird Lightning
To synchronize Google Calendar with Thunderbird Lightning, open Thunderbird and install an add-on named "Provider for Google Calendar" by Philipp Kewisch. Follow the instructions after the install to grant permissions to your Google Calendar and synchronize.
Install Lightning Calendar addon in Ubuntu 18.10
Lightning Calendar comes with Thunderbird on Ubuntu 18.10. To enable it, open a terminal window and install the following package: $ sudo apt-get install xul-ext-lightning <enter>
How to display all email in Plaintext only in the Evolution Email Client
After installing Linux Mint, I found that I did not have an option on the Evolution Preferences -> HTML Messages tab, to make sure that all email I received was only displayed as plain text. The option display was as per Figure 1 below. Figure 1Figure 2 If you too do not see the Plain … Continue reading How to display all email in Plaintext only in the Evolution Email Client
Evolution keeps asking for passwords in Ubuntu after updates
After an update, the Evolution email client on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS would not remember any passwords. Each time it tries to retrieve messages, it asks that passwords be entered. Even though the check box to Add the password to the key ring is clicked, it never stopped asking. It neither stored passwords in the key … Continue reading Evolution keeps asking for passwords in Ubuntu after updates
How to use GNU Privacy Guard / GnuPG / GPG / PGP to encrypt email and data
Okay... on this blog post, we explained the finer details of GNU Privacy Guard or GPG or GnuPG or PGP. Activities that are required to be performed were explained in detail with the commands to perform them. However, you would still not be able to connect the dots, without this grand overview of GNU Privacy … Continue reading How to use GNU Privacy Guard / GnuPG / GPG / PGP to encrypt email and data
How to revoke a GnuPG / GPG key in Linux
If your Gnu Privacy Guard or GPG or GnuPG key has been compromised or something has gone wrong, you can revoke your key. Make sure that you generated a revocation certificate and stored in a safe place to do so. To revoke a key, open a terminal in Linux, and enter the following command: $ … Continue reading How to revoke a GnuPG / GPG key in Linux
How to add GnuPG / GPG key ID to the Evolution email client in Linux and use it
We saw how to create a GPG, GnuPG or PGP key pair in earlier posts. Now we need to tell Evolution that we have a PGP key pair that can be used to sign email messages and also encrypt them. To sign, all you need is create a GPG, GnuPG or PGP key pairthe private … Continue reading How to add GnuPG / GPG key ID to the Evolution email client in Linux and use it
How to receive other people’s GnuPG / PGP public key from a key server into your key ring
You will be able to sign emails using your private key by default. This means that people know that it is your email ID that is the originator of the email. However, if you want to send people encrypted messages, you need to have their public keys in your key ring. You need to get … Continue reading How to receive other people’s GnuPG / PGP public key from a key server into your key ring
