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Is there an owner's manual for Thunderbird, preferably in print ?

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Have had Thunderbird for 4 days, after using Outlook Express for years, and the two are different enough that I'm having problems navigating. Is there a printed "driver's manual" that I could acquire that would help me understand how to better use Thunderbird ?

Have had Thunderbird for 4 days, after using Outlook Express for years, and the two are different enough that I'm having problems navigating. Is there a printed "driver's manual" that I could acquire that would help me understand how to better use Thunderbird ?

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There is no official manual. There's quite a good semi-official manual at the floss site, and it's available in various formats, including pdf which should print out to paper quite readily.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/thunderbird/

This manual is a bit dated. It was written before Thunderbird 17, which introduced some drastic cosmetic changes which have rendered most of the existing help on the 'net (including the floss manual!) unfathomable. I'd suggest you re-instate the traditional menu system and the toolbars.

http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/13_Menus_in_Thunderbird.html http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/5_Lost_toolbars.html

Manuals are not good at the philosophy behind the prooduct. I expect that if you set up two or more accounts in Thunderbird, you will be alarmed at how they are presented separately. I recall my reaction to this was to wonder how I could track multiple accounts and be sure I'd seen all the new mail. When you reach this point, please feel free to post here again for some pointers.

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There is no official manual. There's quite a good semi-official manual at the floss site, and it's available in various formats, including pdf which should print out to paper quite readily.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/thunderbird/

This manual is a bit dated. It was written before Thunderbird 17, which introduced some drastic cosmetic changes which have rendered most of the existing help on the 'net (including the floss manual!) unfathomable. I'd suggest you re-instate the traditional menu system and the toolbars.

http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/13_Menus_in_Thunderbird.html http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/5_Lost_toolbars.html

Manuals are not good at the philosophy behind the prooduct. I expect that if you set up two or more accounts in Thunderbird, you will be alarmed at how they are presented separately. I recall my reaction to this was to wonder how I could track multiple accounts and be sure I'd seen all the new mail. When you reach this point, please feel free to post here again for some pointers.