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If you're running a recent version of Thunderbird, you might want to have a look at our articles covering Thunderbird 1.5.

An introduction to Thunderbird, part 4

Once in a while, you may need to attach a file to your email message. Part 4 will mainly revolve around editing attachments and what buttons you got on the hotbar in the address book. By now you should be able to navigate fairly well in the Thunderbird user interface, so I'm going to give a few more pointers in this part than the previous :)

How to edit attachments:

The first thing you need to do is open a new message.


Screenshot of Thunderbird


Screenshot of Thunderbird

Having done that, you need to press the attachment button, right next to the attachment button is there also an arrow; you've got 2 choices, either attach a file or a web address. Click on the attachment button, and a window for browsing your folders will appear for your hard drive.


Screenshot of Thunderbird

Locate the file you want to attach from your local directory, and press open. Your mail message has now a file attached. If you want to add more attachments to the same email simply repeat the process. If you want to attach a web page, simply choose "Attach web page" and fill in the URL.


Screenshot of Thunderbird

A short explanation on the address book hotbar:

New card:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

This button will allow you to create a new card in your address book, a new card can be a contact person, business relations etc.

New list:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

This button will open a window where you can create and/or edit an existing mailing list.

Properties:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

Let you edit the highlighted card in your address

Write:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

Will open a new window for writing a message, to the person highlighted in the address book.

IM:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

Chat function, this is not functional yet.

Delete:

Screenshot of Thunderbird

The delete button will delete the highlighted card from your address book.

Hope you have enjoyed this part as much as I enjoyed writing it :)

This is the forth in a series of articles about Thunderbird, if you have Thunderbird related topics you'd like to see covered here, let us know. Comments on this article, thumbs up or flames, can be sent to articles@nidelven-it.no. If you need help using Thunderbird, we recommend using the Thunderbird forums.

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If you're running a recent version of Thunderbird, you might want to have a look at our articles covering Thunderbird 1.5.

If you find these articles useful, you might also want to check out the introduction to Firefox, introduction to Open Office, Plone or the introduction to Gaim. We're always looking for more translators.