Thunderbird/C2/Account-settings-and-configuring/English
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Welcome to the tutorial on Account Settings and Configuring Gmail Account | Welcome to the tutorial on Account Settings and Configuring Gmail Account |
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Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn :
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We will also learn to:
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We will also learn to:
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System Requirements
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Here we are using Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. |
Open Thunderbird. | Click on the Thunderbird icon in the Launcher. |
The Thunderbird window opens. | |
Let’s add another folder to this account. | |
From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@GMAIL.COM. | From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE at GMAIL dot COM |
Right-click and select New Folder. | Right-click on the account STUSERONE at gmail dot comand select New Folder. |
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Now, you can move important mails from the Inbox to this folder. | |
Select, drag and drop this mail from the Inbox to the Important Mails folder. | Let’s select, drag and drop this mail from the Inbox to the Important Mails folder. |
You can search for messages using various filter options. | |
From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail.com. | Now, from the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com. |
In the right panel, under Advanced Features, click Search Messages. | In the right panel, under Advanced Features, click Search Messages. |
Point to the Search Messages dialog box. | The Search Messages dialog box appears. |
Let us use the default settings to search for messages. | |
Point to Match all of the following. | The Match all of the following option is selected by default. |
Then, under it, point to the first drop-down box Subject.
Point to second drop-down contains. |
Subject.and Contains are also selected by default. |
In the field enter Ten interesting. | In the next field type Ten interesting. |
Click Search. | Click Search. |
The mails that match the subject name are displayed. | |
Point your cursor on “Save as Search Folder” | You can also save these searches in a folder. |
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Assignment
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Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
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Switch to Thunderbird.
Click the x in the top left corner and exit. |
Let’s close this dialog box. |
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Create a Filter
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Let’s create a new filter for this mail account.
A filter is a rule that you can apply to sort the messages in your mail box. |
Here, we shall move all mails with the subject Thunderbird to the Important Mails folder. | |
From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail.com. | From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com. |
Under Advanced Features, click Manage message filters. | Under Advanced Features, click Manage message filters. |
Point to the Message Filters dialog box. | The Message Filters dialog box appears. |
Click New. | Click on tab New. |
Point to the Filter Rules dialog box. | The Filter Rules dialog box appears. |
In the Filter Name field, enter Subject Thunderbird. | In the Filter Name field, enter Subject Thunderbird. |
Again, let’s use the default settings to set the filter. | |
Point to Match all of the following. | The Match all of the following option is selected by default.
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Under it,Point to Subject and then Contains. | Subject and Contains are also selected by default. |
In the next field enter Thunderbird. | In the next field type Thunderbird. |
Under the Perform these actions field, select the drop-down and click Move Message to. | Next, under the Perform these actions field, let’s change the option to Move Message to. |
Click the next drop-down, browse and select the folder Important Mails. | Click the next drop-down, browse and select the folder Important Mails. |
Click OK. | Click OK. |
Point to the Filter that is displayed in the Message Filters dialog box. | The Filter is displayed in the Message Filters dialog box. |
Click Run Now. | Click Run Now. |
Close the dialog box. | Close the dialog box. |
Click the Important Mails folder. | Now, click the Important Mails folder. |
Point, that the mails are with the subject Thunderbird have been moved to this folder. | Notice, that the mails are with the subject Thunderbird have been moved to this folder. |
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Manage Multiple email Accounts
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Show the “Gmail accounts are automatically”
configured by Thunderbird. Manage Multiple email Accounts. ● Other accounts must be configured manually |
As you know, Gmail accounts are automatically configured by Thunderbird.
Other accounts must be configured manually. |
Manage Multiple email Accounts
● Configure the Yahoo account through Thunderbird
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Let’s configure the Yahoo account, STUSERTWO@yahoo dot in through Thunderbird. |
Manage Multiple email Accounts
● Enabling the POP option in Yahoo mail. |
I have already enabled POP in the Yahoo account. |
How did I do it?
First I logged into my yahoo account.<Pause> | |
Open a fresh firefox browser.
Type www,yahoo.in. Enter User Name: STUSERTWO Enter Password:password123! Click Sign in. |
Next, open a fresh browser and in the address bar type www.yahoo.in.
Now enter the user name STUSERTWO at yahoo.in and then the password
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From the top-left corner, click Options and Mail Options. | From the top-left corner, click Options and Mail Options. |
In the left panel, click POP and Forwarding. | In the left panel, click POP and Forwarding. |
Select Access Yahoo! Mail via POP.
Click Close the tab. |
Select Access Yahoo Mail via POP.
Click Close the tab. |
A dialog box with the message to save changes appears.
Click save. |
A dialog box with the message to save changes appears.
Click save. |
Log out of Yahoo and close the browser. | Now, let’s log out of Yahoo and close the browser. |
Switch to Thunderbird. | |
From the right panel, under Accounts, click Create New Account. | Now, from the right panel , under Accounts, click Create New Account. |
Point to the Mail Account Setup dialog box. | The Mail Account Setup dialog box appears. |
Enter name as USERTWO. | Now, let’s enter Name as USERTWO. |
Next, in Email Address, enter the Yahoo id STUSERTWO@YAHOO.IN
Then enter the password: password123! |
Next, in Email Address, let’s enter the Yahoo id STUSERTWO@YAHOO.IN
Then type the password |
Click Continue. | Click Continue. |
Point to the Mail Account Settings dialog box. | The Mail Account Setup dialog box appears. |
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We select POP3 as we want to check mails offline
and therefore download all the mails to our local computer. | |
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In the Incoming field,
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In the Outgoing field,
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In the User Name enter the name STUSERTWO. | In the User Name field, let’s enter the name STUSERTWO. |
Point to the Create Account button is enabled | The Create Account button is enabled. |
Click Create Account. | Click Create Account. |
The Yahoo account is configured.
Depending on your Internet connection, this may take a few minutes. | |
Select the Yahoo account in the Thunderbird interface. | Notice that the right panel in the Thunderbird window now displays the Yahoo account. |
Click Inbox.
Point to the mails that have been downloaded. |
Let’s click on Inbox.
All the mails from the Yahoo account have been downloaded here. |
You can now use Thunderbird to not only view mails received
from your Yahoo and Gmail accounts, but also mange the two accounts at one go! | |
Now, let’s look at the preference settings that are available for email accounts in Thunderbird. | |
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Set Preferences in Thunderbird You may want to:
the disk space on your computer is full |
You may want to:
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Select the Gmail account. | From the left panel, let’s select the Gmail account. |
Point to the Thunderbird Mail dialog box. | The Thunderbird Mail dialog box appears. |
From the right panel, under Accounts, click View Settings for this account. | From the right panel, under Accounts, click View Settings for this account. |
Point to the Account Settings dialog box | The Account Settings dialog box appears. |
In the left panel, again select the Gmail account. | In the left panel, again select the Gmail account.
Now, click on Server Settings. |
Now, click on Server Settings.
Point to the Server Settings that are displayed in the right panel. |
The Server Settings are displayed in the right panel. |
In the check box Check for new messages every enter 20. | In the check box Check for new messages every enter 20.
Thunderbird will now check for messages every 20 minutes. |
Check the box Empty Trash on Exit. | Check the box Empty Trash on Exit.
All messages in the Trash folder will be deleted whenever you exit Thunderbird.
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Point to the other options in the dialog box. | In the same manner you can customize your server settings. |
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Setting The Options
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In a similar manner, we can also set options to:
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From the left panel, click Copies and Folders. | From the left panel, click Copies and Folders. |
Point to the Copies and Folders dialog box displayed on the right panel. | The Copies and Folders dialog box is displayed on the right panel. |
Point to the default options. | Let’s keep these default options as they are. |
Point to the option. | Notice the option Place a copy in and Sent folder on are already selected. |
From the left panel, select Disc Space. | To set options to save disk space, from the left panel, let’s select Disc Space. |
Now, from the right panel, check the box, Don’t download messages larger than.
Now, in the KB field, enter 60. |
Now, from the right panel, you will see the option To save disc space, do not download.
Check the box Messages larger than. Now, in the KB field, enter 60. |
Thunderbird will not download messages that are greater than 60KB. | |
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Another useful Thunderbird feature is Identify Junk Messages.
You can train Thunderbird to identify junk and non junk messages. |
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Junk Mail Settings
mail manually
mail Based on your selections,
identify "junk" mail
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Based on your selections,
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Switch to TB. | |
In the Account Settings dialog box, from the left panel, click Junk Settings. | In the Account Settings dialog box, from the left panel, click Junk Settings. |
The Junk Settings dialog box appears on the right-panel. | The Junk Settings dialog box appears on the right-panel. |
Point to the checked box Enable adaptive mail junk mail controls for this account box. | Notice that the Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account box is checked by default. |
Under the Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in box, check all the options. | Under the Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in list, check all the options. |
Select the Move new junk message to field and select Junk folder on option. | Select the Move new junk message to field and select Junk folder on option. |
Click OK. | Click OK. |
Now, click on Inbox and select the first mail. | Now, click on Inbox and select the first mail. |
Point to the bottom panel. | The contents of the mail are displayed in the bottom panel. |
Click the Junk icon. | Click the Junk icon. |
Point to the header Junk mail. | Notice that the header Junk Mail is displayed. |
In a similar manner you can set other preferences too! | |
Finally, can we delete a mail account that we configured in Thunderbird?
Yes, we can! | |
From the left panel, select the account. | From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com. |
From the Right Panel, under Accounts select View Settings for this account. | From the right panel, under Accounts select View Settings for this account. |
Point to the Account Settings dialog box. | The Account Settings dialog box appears. |
Click Account Actions and then click Remove Account. | From the bottom left corner, click Account Actions and then click Remove Account. |
Point to the warning message. | A warning message is displayed. |
Point to OK. | If we click on OK, the account will be deleted.
However, for the purposes of this tutorial, we will not delete this account. |
Click Cancel. | So we will click Cancel. |
Click the X button on the top-left corner to exit the Account Settings dialog box. | Let’s close this dialog box. |
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Delete a Mail account Remember, when you delete an email account
the left panel of the Mozilla Thunderbird window
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Remember, when you delete an email account,
the left panel of the Mozilla Thunderbird window.
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Summary
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This concludes this tutorial on Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.2
In this tutorial we learnt how to:
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You also learnt how to:
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Assignment
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