Sagentic Email Tutorials

Mozilla Thunderbird

This tutorial shows you how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 , but these settings are similar in other versions of Mozilla Thunderbird . You can set up previous versions of Mozilla Thunderbird by using the settings in this tutorial. Here is how to configure the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to use with your email accounts: 1. Open Thunderbird, and from the Tools menu select Account Settings.

2. Click the Add Account button.

3. Select Email Account and click Next.

4. Enter your name and complete email address and click Next. Please make sure to replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name.

5. Select POP as type of incoming server. Incoming and Outgoing Server should both be mail.yourdomain.com. Click Next.

NOTE: "mail.yourdomain.com" is your SMTP server that comes with your web hosting package. In order to use this server to send e-mails, you must login to it using the same account username and password as your incoming server. You can specify this in step 6. If you have trouble withoutgoing email using your SMTP server with your web hosting package, and your Internet Service Provider (ISP) allows it, you can use the outgoing mail server for your Internet Service Provider. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting. For SBC Users the outgoing mail server is smtp.sbcglobal.net. SBC requires you use their outgoing server in most situations. 6. Enter your complete email address in both the Incoming and Outgoing User Name text fields. Click Next.

7. Enter a name for this email account and click Next.

8. You will now see a confirmation screen. If everything is correct, click Finish.

9. Finally, click OK. About Thunderbird: Full-Featured Email Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set. Junk Mail Filters Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird will also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox. Anti-Phishing Protection Thunderbird protects you from increasingly common email scams—also known as “phishing”—which try to fool you into handing over your passwords and other personal information. Thunderbird will tell you when it thinks a message might be a scam. Advanced Security Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features including S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Attachments are never run without your express permission, protecting you from many worms and viruses. Automatic Updates The new Software Update feature makes it easy to get the latest security and feature updates to Thunderbird. Thunderbird automatically downloads these small updates in the background and prompts you when they are ready to be installed. Customize Thunderbird Select new button controls for your toolbars, install extensions to add new features, or change the look of your browser with themes—the way Thunderbird looks and works is under your control.