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 ==== Overview of Features ====
-Thunderbird is an email client, which does the usual functions of mailing – receiving, sending and storing emails. Mails can be stored in folders and sub folders to categorize mails based on subjects or senders or time periods or a combination of these. Files can be attached and shared with others. Emails can be searched easily by providing information on different elements such as sender, receiver, date etc. Mail ids can be connected to form ‘mailing-lists’ (such as google groups), by which, mail sent to the list id will be sent to all members of the group, this is ideal to create ‘professional learning communities’ of teachers with a common interest or need. Thunderbird  consider one of the powerful tool to manage multiple email accounts and emails include accessing feeds and public channels. The application helps you to manage your office email account (s) to in one place to manage your work and organizing emails based on your priorities and projects.
+Thunderbird is an email client, which does the usual functions of mailing – receiving, sending and storing emails. Mails can be stored in folders and sub folders to categorize mails based on subjects or senders or time periods or a combination of these. Files can be attached and shared with others. Emails can be searched easily by providing information on different elements such as sender, receiver, date etc. Mail ids can be connected to form '''‘mailing-lists’''' (such as google groups), by which, mail sent to the list id will be sent to all members of the group, this is ideal to create '''‘professional learning communities’''' of teachers with a common interest or need. Thunderbird  consider one of the powerful tool to manage multiple email accounts and emails include accessing feeds and public channels. The application helps you to manage your office email account (s) to in one place to manage your work and organizing emails based on your priorities and projects.
 ====Installation====
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 ## Type the following command in the terminal window:  '''sudo apt install thunderbird'''
 ## Press	the '''"Enter"''' key on your keyboard. To initiate the installation	process, you will be prompted to enter your system administrator	password (no text will appear as you type it).
-## Press	the Enter key again to start the installation process.
+## Press	the '''"Enter"''' key again to start the installation process.
 ===== For Windows OS =====

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 === Introduction ===
-Thunderbird (TB) is a “Free and Open Source software (FOSS)” email client tool for managing your emails, new feeds and new mailing groups. This mail client tool will help you to access and store your emails in multiple devices. Generally to access your emails from the mail servers (like gmail, rediff or hotmail) you need an Internet connectivity, with this thunderbird email client you can configure email account to access your emails even when you are offline (without Internet connectivity) as well.  Thunderbird is an powerful email client tool with wide range of features like configuring multiple email accounts, filters, changing themes, add-ons and etc...
+Thunderbird (TB) is a '''“Free and Open Source software (FOSS)”''' email client tool for managing your emails, new feeds and new mailing groups. This mail client tool will help you to access and store your emails in multiple devices. Generally to access your emails from the mail servers (like gmail, rediff or hotmail) you need an Internet connectivity, with this thunderbird email client you can configure email account to access your emails even when you are offline (without Internet connectivity) as well.  Thunderbird is an powerful email client tool with wide range of features like configuring multiple email accounts, filters, changing themes, add-ons and etc...
 ==== Basic information ====
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 |-
 |Development and community help
-|<nowiki>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/</nowiki>
+|https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
 |}

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 By following these steps, you can successfully set up and synchronize the Nextcloud Calendar with Thunderbird, allowing you to manage your events and appointments seamlessly.
-==== References ====
+=== References ===
 . https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/
 . https://www.lifewire.com

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 . In the Thunderbird interface, click on the "Calendar" tab at the top to switch to the calendar view.
-. In the calendar view, select the specific calendar where you want to create the event or task. If you have multiple calendars, they will be listed on the left-hand side of the calendar view. Now click on the Event and Task option from the menu bar and Sselect New Event or New Task as required, both has same template.
+. In the calendar view, select the specific calendar where you want to create the event or task. If you have multiple calendars, they will be listed on the left-hand side of the calendar view. Now click on the Event and Task option from the menu bar and select '''New Event''' or '''New Task''' as required, both has same template.
 . A pop-up window will appear to create the event. Here, enter the event title, start and end times, and any additional details such as location, description, or attendees.
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 ==== Using Add-on ====
-Add-on will enrich your requirement of the mail client. To add the add-on Go to “Tools→ Add-on and Themes” you will get a new window as show in below image, click on the Extension option and search the required Add-on need to you like: Tbsyn, CalDAV and CardDAV, Lightning Calender, Mail Merge.
+Add-on will enrich your requirement of the mail client. To add the add-on Go to '''“Tools→ Add-on and Themes”''' you will get a new window as show in below image, click on the Extension option and search the required Add-on need to you like: '''Tbsyn, CalDAV and CardDAV, Lightning Calender, Mail Merge.'''
 Adding required extensions on thunderbird
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 You will have the toggle option to enable and disable all the installed add-on’s .
-.18 Configure Next-cloud Calendar
+==== Configure Next-cloud Calendar ====
+Similar to Google calendar we have our own Cloud based calender called '''Next-cloud Calendar'''. To integrate the Nextcloud Calendar with Thunderbird mail client, follow these steps:
 . Make sure you have two necessary add-ons, Tbsyn and CalDAV and CardDAV, installed in Thunderbird. These add-ons facilitate the synchronization between the calendar and the mail client.
 . After adding the required add-ons, locate the Tbsyn settings by clicking on the spanner icon. This action will open a new window, as shown in the image below.
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 . A new tab will open, allowing you to enter the account information. Fill in the required details, such as the server address (cloud.itforchange.net), username (your nextcloud username), and password (Nextcloud login password) associated with your Nextcloud account.
 . Once you have entered the account information, click on "Next." The Calendar selection window will appear, displaying the available calendars associated with your Nextcloud account. Select the desired calendars (Blr calendar, your team calendar and etc...) that you want to synchronise with Thunderbird calender.
 . After selecting the calendar, click on "Synchronize now" to initiate the synchronization process.
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 By following these steps, you can successfully set up and synchronize the Nextcloud Calendar with Thunderbird, allowing you to manage your events and appointments seamlessly.
 . https://www.lifewire.com

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		+	=== Introduction ===
		+	Thunderbird (TB) is a “Free and Open Source software (FOSS)” email client tool for managing your emails, new feeds and new mailing groups. This mail client tool will help you to access and store your emails in multiple devices. Generally to access your emails from the mail servers (like gmail, rediff or hotmail) you need an Internet connectivity, with this thunderbird email client you can configure email account to access your emails even when you are offline (without Internet connectivity) as well. Thunderbird is an powerful email client tool with wide range of features like configuring multiple email accounts, filters, changing themes, add-ons and etc...
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		+	==== Basic information ====
		+	{\| class="wikitable"
		+	\|ICT Competency
		+	\|Thunderbird is a free and open-source software email client tool.
		+	\|-
		+	\|Version
		+	\|Latest version is 102
		+	\|-
		+	\|Other similar applications
		+	\|Kmail, Mailspring, Evaluation, etc...
		+	\|-
		+	\|The application on mobiles and tablets
		+	\|Thunderbird is not available on smartphones. There are some other apps available for smartphones such as K-9 mail, Blue Mail, Spark Email, Clean-fox etc
		+	\|-
		+	\|Development and community help
		+	\|<nowiki>https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/</nowiki>
		+	\|}
		+
		+	==== Overview of Features ====
		+	Thunderbird is an email client, which does the usual functions of mailing – receiving, sending and storing emails. Mails can be stored in folders and sub folders to categorize mails based on subjects or senders or time periods or a combination of these. Files can be attached and shared with others. Emails can be searched easily by providing information on different elements such as sender, receiver, date etc. Mail ids can be connected to form ‘mailing-lists’ (such as google groups), by which, mail sent to the list id will be sent to all members of the group, this is ideal to create ‘professional learning communities’ of teachers with a common interest or need. Thunderbird consider one of the powerful tool to manage multiple email accounts and emails include accessing feeds and public channels. The application helps you to manage your office email account (s) to in one place to manage your work and organizing emails based on your priorities and projects.
		+
		+	====Installation====
		+
		+	===== For Ubuntu OS =====
		+
		+	# This application is included in Ubuntu and many other Linux-based operating systems.
		+	# If you cannot find this tool on your Ubuntu computer, you can install the app using the terminal by following these steps:
		+	## Open the terminal by clicking on Applications/Menu → System Tools → Terminal (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T).
		+	## Type the following command in the terminal window: sudo apt install thunderbird
		+	## Press the Enter key on your keyboard. To initiate the installation process, you will be prompted to enter your system administrator password (no text will appear as you type it).
		+	## Press the Enter key again to start the installation process.
		+
		+	===== For Windows OS =====
		+	To download Thunderbird for Windows OS, please follow these instructions:
		+
		+	1. Visit the official Thunderbird website by clicking here.
		+
		+	2. On the website, locate the "Free Download" button and click on it.
		+
		+	3. After the download is complete, navigate to the location where the file was saved. Double-click on the downloaded file to initiate the installation process.
		+
		+	4. Follow the on-screen prompts:
		+
		+	◦ When prompted to select a location, click on "Next".
		+
		+	◦ If asked to choose a layout type, select your preferred option and click on "Next".
		+
		+	5. Once the installation process is finished, you will see a "Done" or "Finish" button. Click on it to complete the installation.
		+
		+	===== For MAC OS =====
		+	To download Thunderbird for mac OS from the official website, please follow these instructions:
		+
		+	1. Click here to visit the official Thunderbird website.
		+
		+	2. On the website, locate and click on the "Free Download" button.
		+
		+	3. After the download is complete, locate the downloaded file and open it.
		+
		+	4. Drag the Thunderbird application icon to your "Applications" folder to install it.
		+
		+	5. Once the installation is complete, navigate to your "Applications" folder and open the Thunderbird application.
		+
		+	6. Follow the on-screen prompts:
		+
		+	◦ When asked to select a location, click on "Next".
		+
		+	◦ If prompted to choose a layout type, select your preferred option and click on "Next".
		+
		+	7. Once the installation is done, a "Done" or "Finish" button will appear. Click on it to complete the installation process.
		+
		+	===== For Smart phones =====
		+	1. For Android phones, please follow these instructions:
		+
		+	1. Unfortunately, Thunderbird is not available for phones.
		+
		+	2. However, you can use an alternative mobile-based FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) tool called K9 on your phone.
		+
		+	3. Click here to download and install K9 on your phone.
		+
		+	Note: Please note that K9 is not available for iOS devices. iOS users can install the BlueMail app (which is not FOSS) instead.
		+
		+	=== Working with the Application ===
		+	After installing the application on your computer, you can open it by following these steps on ubuntu:
		+
		+	1. Navigate to the "Applications" menu on your computer.
		+
		+	2. Go to the "Internet" category and look for either "Thunderbird" or "Mozilla Thunderbird".
		+
		+	3. Click on the Thunderbird/Mozilla Thunderbird option to open the application.
		+
		+	Windows user can search the Thunderbird application from the application list.
		+
		+	To begin using Thunderbird, you need to configure your email account(s) by providing your email ID and password.