Since I had some time, I installed Thunderbird 3.3a2 aka Miramar. Upon the first start-up I was prompted to setup my email account. The process went smoothly as like in Thunderbird 3.1, setup should be able to auto-detect the account settings based on the email address you put in. Since all my email accounts are IMAP, I had Miramar synced with Thunderbird 3.1 running on my Windows 7 and Ubuntu machines. Took a couple minutes of playing around in the View menu to get the layout the way I preferred. As you can see from the About screen, Mozilla Messaging…

When an email account is initially setup in Thunderbird, the user is prompted to enter their name which is shown as the from on the mail message. What if you want to have multiple display/from names on the same email account? Thunderbird gives you the ability to create multiple ‘identities’ for an email account: Go to Tools >  Account Settings… (Linux: Edit > Account Settings) At the bottom right of the Account Settings window shall be a button Manage Identities… Choose Add.. Complete at least the first two fields (Your Name, Email Address) Click OK, Click OK, Click OK When…