Thee best email service anywhere. I can’t imagine my life without Gmail anymore. It is awesome in so many ways and has so many hidden features and functionality that I can’t believe it’s free.

Recommended settings and configuration for IMAP

• http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725
• http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892
• https://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358

Thunderbird Add-ons

If you want Thunderbird to check all of your folders for new messages try adding user_pref(“mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, true); to your user.js or pref.js

• Lightning
• Provider for Google Calendar
• Zindus