{"id":1449,"date":"2019-05-25T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T10:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2020-11-22T04:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:32:40","slug":"good-habits-regular-updates-update-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Update Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird is my preferred email client. Various email accounts can be included into Thunderbird, basically all IMAP standard following email providers, and it has some powerful extensions like Lightning for calendar, utilizing the open CalDAV standard, and CardBook for contact management with the open CardDAV standard.<\/p>\n<p>Email is one of the key modern-times communication media, so important that for some companies you simply don&#8217;t exist if you don&#8217;t have an email address. Scary but true. So let&#8217;s make sure Thunderbird is up-to-date with all safety and security fixes and improvements so we&#8217;re not suddenly kicked out of existence by some malicious attacker and that we don&#8217;t contribute unwillingly, maybe even unknowingly, to the ever increasing spam issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Open Thunderbird, click on the &#8220;sandwich&#8221; menu <em style=\"font-size: 80%;\">(the 3 horizontal bars symbol)<\/em> on the upper mid-right side of the application window<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1450\" src=\"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-416x265.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and <strong>move<\/strong> your mouse to the menu entry labelled Help &#8211; just <strong>hover<\/strong> there with your mouse, <strong>don&#8217;t click<\/strong> <em style=\"font-size: 80%;\">(you have been warned!)<\/em>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1451\" src=\"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-416x265.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a short while the menu will extend and reveal a submenu. Now <strong>click<\/strong> on the <strong>About Mozilla Thunderbird<\/strong> menu entry at the lower end.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1452\" src=\"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-416x265.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the upcoming small window click onto <strong>Restart to update Thunderbird<\/strong> to, well, let Thunderbird install the update and then restart.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1453\" src=\"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_05b-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_05b-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_05b-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_05b-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_05b-416x265.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll take a moment for the installation to complete and eventually Thunderbird will start up again. Now a quick check via -&gt; the sandwich menu -&gt; Help <em>(remember: hover, don&#8217;t click)<\/em> -&gt; About Mozilla Thunderbird<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1449 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-324x324.png 324w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_02-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-324x324.png 324w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_03-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-324x324.png 324w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_04b-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>and we get confirmation that the latest version of Thunderbird is in use.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1455\" src=\"https:\/\/jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_06-1024x652.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_06-1024x652.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_06-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_06-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thunderbird_06-416x265.png 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! Thunderbird is now up-to-date again and you&#8217;re still in existence and able to manage your emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird is my preferred email client. Various email accounts can be included into Thunderbird, basically all IMAP standard following email providers, and it has some powerful extensions like Lightning for calendar, utilizing the open CalDAV standard, and CardBook for contact management with the open CardDAV standard. Email is one of the key modern-times communication media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,629],"tags":[89,87,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtlk.net\/apps\/base\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}