Adding Thunderbird to 2g eee PC

For whatever reason the 2g eee PC doesn’t come with an email client installed.  Plenty of links to different webmail sites – but no client.

I hunted around and found some super easy instructions for getting Thunderbird on to your eee PC.

First open a terminal window.  To do so hit Control – Alt – T.

In the terminal window type:  sudo synaptic

That will bring up the synaptic manager.  Go to Settings and then Repositories.  On the repository screen you want to change everything that says 700 to read 701.

Save your changes in synaptic then hit reload.  Then exit synaptic.  You should be back to your terminal window.

In the terminal type: sudo apt-get install thunderbird

Next you will need to download an update fix.  After Thunderbird is finished and you are back at the terminal window prompt, type:

sudo apt-get install eeepc-updatepack-20071126 

That’s it.  You will now have a Mail icon on your Work tab.

IMAP for the Masses

It has finally happened.

The guys at Google have embraced IMAP for GMail.

This will allow me to use GMail full time now.  Now if Google would add it to my account – I could get on with life.  I know I may catch some flack and get asked why not just use the GMail web client?  I have several reasons.  I need a client (I prefer Thunderbird but like Mulberry as well).  I like being able to easily backup my own account.  I like being able to read it on the web and have it show up that way on my client and vice versa.