Windows users: (I’m sorry I hopefully am getting a MAC soon so that I can find programs for my mac readers)

If you are a like me and have A LOT of email accounts dedicated to numerous sites and companies you have to manage, having a good pop3 program helps! I myself have over 25 email accounts I have to manage!

Since I goto work and they are cheap, and never give me anything including ANTIVIRUS! I have to find things to compensate. I was on the 3 month trial of MSOffice 2007, I loved it! Outlook 2007 is a great program but a little pricey, if you can afford it get it!

Another program for those of us who like FREE is Thunderbird by Mozilla. Like Firefox, Thunderbird has extension capability. My favourite and only extension to this day is Lightning it is the Sunbird for Thunderbird. Installing it is a little tricky, if you are a Firefox user!

Do not just click download, I had that problem and kept doing it over and over again! Right click save as.
From there open up Thunderbird >> Tools >> Extensions >> Install you find your lightning download and install it! You will have to reboot Thunderbird but it allows you to have the same style calender option as Outlook.

The only drawbacks is it doesn’t offer the days you have items written on in bold.

Now when you are setting up your pop3 if you’re like me and can be a little dense sometimes, I had numerous problems in the beginning with Thunderbird but once I figured it out it is a beautiful program. Sometimes it can go in steps 1,2,3,7,4,5, but once you have them down pat step 7 is easy! HAHA!

When you set up your pop3 you have to make sure you goto SMTP individually. If you don’t it’ll set the first pop3 SMTP as the default SMTP for all future POP3 accounts added into the program.