Restore sent messages properly in folder(Thunderbird)

             You get an error that a sent mail can't be copied to the “Sent” folder, whereas the mail has been sent correctly.

             The problem occurs sporadically when you send messages via an IMAP server. The sent messages must also be transferred to the “Sent” folder on the server, which is sometimes a problem. Usually, this problem can be solved by manually assigning the correct folder.
             Open the “Tools | Account settings” command. To the left, click “Copies & Folders”. The option “Place a copy in” should be activated. Change the option to “Other”. In the relevant combination field, select the mail account and “Inbox | Sent” in it. You can also select a different folder of the account or a local folder. Confirm with “OK”. If the problem is not resolved, click “Server settings” in the same dialog and then on the “Advanced” button. In “Maximum number of server connections to cache”, change the value to “1”. Confirm both dialogs with “OK”. This prevents collisions when accessing the server, but only one folder is monitored this way. You will have to increase this later.

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Automatically extend the list of safe senders(Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010)

               When you write a message to a person, Outlook should enter this recipient automatically in the list of safe senders in order to relieve them of the maintenance of this list.

               You can direct Outlook to gather all the recipients of your message in the list of a certain sender. For this, go to "Tools | options" in the 2003, 2007 version. Under the “Preference” tab click on “Junk e-mail”. In case of Outlook 2010, mark the “Junk e-mail” folder in the navigation bar on the left side of the application. Click a received message classified as junk-e-mail and open the command “Junk e-mail | Junk e-mail options” in the context menu.
                 In both the versions, select the "Safe Sender" tab and check the box next to “Automatically add people I e-mail to the safe sender list" and confirm your selection with “OK”.

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Easily access configuration settings from the menu(Thunderbird, Firefox)

              You regularly perform special configuration settings for Thunderbird. For this, you have to search at first how you can get back to the entries of “about:config”.

               Install the free extension ‘ViewAbout’ and quickly get the desired settings of the extended configurations. Go to “Extras | Add-ons” in Thunderbird and click “Install”. Then navigate to the new XPI file and “Open” these. You get the required permission by clicking “Install now”. Finally, you must “Restart Thunderbird”. In future, you will see a new entry “ViewAbout” in the menu “View”. You now have direct access to all the available “About” pages in its sub-menu. You will be surprised to know how many additional options are hidden there. However, not all of them function in Thunderbird.
Note: The extension ViewAbout can also be installed in Firefox. Although the call up “about:config” is simpler here, it functions still faster via this menu and moreover, you can see which other “about” pages are still available.

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