| 3 | | In Thunderbird (Icedove in Debian Linux), click on the File menu -> New -> Mail Account (see screenshot 1 below). |
| 4 | | |
| 5 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-1.png)]] |
| 6 | | |
| 7 | | The first step in creating a Thunderbird account, is to provide your name and email address. If you are setting up your own email, use your name and addres. If you want mail to appear to come from an organization as a whole, you can put only your organization's name instead of your own. Press "Continue" when you are done. |
| 8 | | |
| 9 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-2.png)]] |
| 10 | | |
| 11 | | Next, you will want to immediately press "Manual Config": |
| 12 | | |
| 13 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-3.png)]] |
| 14 | | |
| 15 | | == IMAP or POP? == |
| 16 | | |
| 17 | | Next, you'll need to decide whether you want a POP account or an IMAP account. In most cases, we recommend POP, but if you plan to use webmail frequently or will use multiple computers to check your email, you may want to use IMAP. |
| 18 | | |
| 19 | | '''POP settings are as follows:''' |
| 20 | | |
| 21 | | {{{ |
| 22 | | Incoming: POP |
| 23 | | Incoming server hostname: mail.mayfirst.org |
| 24 | | Incoming Port: 110 |
| 25 | | Incoming SSL: STARTTLS |
| 26 | | Incoming Authentication: Normal Password |
| 27 | | |
| 28 | | Outgoing: SMTP |
| 29 | | Outgoing server hostname: mail.mayfirst.org |
| 30 | | Outgoing Port: 587 |
| 31 | | Outgoing SSL: STARTTLS |
| 32 | | Outgoing Authentication: Normal Password |
| 33 | | }}} |
| 34 | | |
| 35 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-6.png)]] |
| 36 | | |
| 37 | | |
| 38 | | |
| 39 | | '''IMAP settings are as follows:''' |
| 40 | | {{{ |
| 41 | | Incoming: IMAP |
| 42 | | Incoming server hostname: mail.mayfirst.org |
| 43 | | Incoming Port: 143 |
| 44 | | Incoming SSL: STARTTLS |
| 45 | | Incoming Authentication: Normal Password |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | Outgoing: SMTP |
| 48 | | Outgoing server hostname: mail.mayfirst.org |
| 49 | | Outgoing Port: 587 |
| 50 | | Outgoing SSL: STARTTLS |
| 51 | | Outgoing Authentication: Normal Password |
| 52 | | }}} |
| 53 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-4.png)]] |
| 54 | | |
| 55 | | Once your settings are in place, press "Create Account" |
| 56 | | |
| 57 | | You should also look over the other settings and adjust them to meet your needs. Access them from the Tools menu -> Account Settings. |
| 58 | | |
| 59 | | [[Image(thunderbird5-win-5.png)]] |
| 60 | | |
| 61 | | |
| 62 | | The composition settings are optional, but we highly recommend turning '''off''' HTML email, which will ensure that your mail is legible to more readers. We often find that the default reply settings are not to our liking, and you may want to change these as well. |
| 63 | | |
| 64 | | Lastly, if you are using IMAP, we strongly encourage you to enable offline caching, [http://webchick.net/node/12 as explained] on [http://webchick.net/ webchick.net]. That will make it much faster to read your email. |
| | 3 | This page is now the [wiki:email_setup_thunderbird active thunderbird page] and is no longer beta. |
