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0:00 Welcome to the tutorial on Account Settings and Configuring Gmail Account
00.06 In this tutorial we will learn :
00.09 How to add new folders to an email account.
00.13 Set advanced filters to search for messages.
00.18 Manage message filters.
00.20 We will also learn to:
00.22 Configure Yahoo account manually.
00.25 Manage multiple e-mail accounts.
00.28 Change account settings for a mail account.
00.32 Delete an email account.
00.34 Here we are using Mozilla Thunderbird 13.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.
00.42 Click on the Thunderbird icon in the Launcher.
00.45 The Thunderbird window opens.
00.48 Let’s add another folder to this account.
00.51 From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE at GMAIL dot COM
00.58 Right-click on the account STUSERONE at gmail dot comand select New Folder.
01.06 The New Folder dialog box appears.
01.09 In the Name field enter Important Mails.
01.13 Click Create Folder. The folder is created!
01.18 Now, you can move important mails from the Inbox to this folder.
01.23 Let’s select, drag and drop this mail from the Inbox to the Important Mails folder.
01.30 You can search for messages using various filter options.
01.36 Now, from the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com.
01.43 In the right panel, under Advanced Features, click Search Messages.
01.48 The Search Messages dialog box appears.
01.52 Let us use the default settings to search for messages.
01.57 The Match all of the following option is selected by default.
02.02 Subject.and Contains are also selected by default.
02.08 In the next field type Ten interesting. Click Search.
02.13 The mails that match the subject name are displayed.
02.18 You can also save these searches in a folder.
02.22 Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
02.25 Search for mail by date and save them in a folder.
02.31 Let’s close this dialog box.
02.35 Let’s create a new filter for this mail account.
02.39 A filter is a rule that you can apply to sort the messages in your mail box.
02.44 Here, we shall move all mails with the subject Thunderbird to the Important Mails folder.
02.52 From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com.
02.58 Under Advanced Features, click Manage message filters.
03.03 The Message Filters dialog box appears. Click on tab New.
03.09 The Filter Rules dialog box appears.
03.12 In the Filter Name field, enter Subject Thunderbird.
03.16 Again, let’s use the default settings to set the filter.
03.21 The Match all of the following option is selected by default.
03.26 Subject and Contains are also selected by default.
03.30 In the next field type Thunderbird.
03.33 Next, under the Perform these actions field, let’s change the option to Move Message to.
03.41 Click the next drop-down, browse and select the folder Important Mails. Click OK.
03.49 The Filter is displayed in the Message Filters dialog box. Click Run Now.
03.58 Close the dialog box. Now, click the Important Mails folder.
04.04 Notice, that the mails are with the subject Thunderbird have been moved to this folder.
04.12 You can manage multiple email accounts with Thunderbird.
04.15 This means, you can receive, send, and manage mails not only in your Gmail but also Yahoo or any other mail account using Thunderbird.
04.26 As you know, Gmail accounts are automatically configured by Thunderbird.
04.31 Other accounts must be configured manually.
04.35 Let’s configure the Yahoo account, STUSERTWO@yahoo dot in through Thunderbird.
04.44 I have already enabled POP in the Yahoo account.
04.48 How did I do it? First I logged into my yahoo account.<Pause>
04.54 Next, open a fresh browser and in the address bar type www.yahoo.in.
05.02 Now enter the user name STUSERTWO at yahoo.in and then the password
05.11 From the top-left corner, click Options and Mail Options.
05.16 In the left panel, click POP and Forwarding.
05.21 Select Access Yahoo Mail via POP.
05.24 Click Close the tab.
05.28 A dialog box with the message to save changes appears. Click save.
05.33 Now, let’s log out of Yahoo and close the browser.
05.39 Now, from the right panel , under Accounts, click Create New Account.
05.45 The Mail Account Setup dialog box appears.
05.49 Now, let’s enter Name as USERTWO.
05.53 Next, in Email Address, let’s enter the Yahoo id STUSERTWO@YAHOO.IN.
06.03 Then type the password .Click Continue.
06.10 The Mail Account Setup dialog box appears.
06.13 In the Incoming Server Name field select POP3 and enter the server hostname as pop dot mail dot yahoo dot com.
06.26 We select POP3 as we want to check mails offline and therefore download all the mails to our local computer.
06.35 In the Incoming field,
06.37 For Port, enter the port number for yahoo, that is, 110.
06.43 In the SSL drop-down, select STARTTLS.
06.48 Click the Authentication drop-down and select Normal password.
06.53 In the Outgoing field,
06.55 The Server Name select SMTP and enter the server hostname as: smtp.mail.yahoo.com.
07.05 For Port, enter the port number for yahoo, that is, 465.
07.12 In the SSL drop-down, select SSL/TLS.
07.17 Click the Authentication drop-down and select Normal password.
07.23 In the User Name field, let’s enter the name STUSERTWO.
07.28 The Create Account button is enabled.
07.32 Click Create Account.
07.34 The Yahoo account is configured.
07.37 Depending on your Internet connection, this may take a few minutes
07.42 Notice that the right panel in the Thunderbird window now displays the Yahoo account.
07.48 Let’s click on Inbox.
07.50 All the mails from the Yahoo account have been downloaded here.
07.55 You can now use Thunderbird to not only view mails received from your Yahoo and Gmail accounts,
08.01 but also mange the two accounts at one go!
08.05 Now, let’s look at the preference settings that are available for email accounts in Thunderbird.
08.13 You may want to:
08.14 Have a copy of the mails sent through Thunderbird stored in the Gmail account
08.20 Quote original messages when replying
08.24 Identify junk messages or,
08.26 Not download certain messages if the disk space on your computer is full
08.34 From the left panel, let’s select the Gmail account.
08.38 The Thunderbird Mail dialog box appears.
08.42 From the right panel, under Accounts, click View Settings for this account.
08.47 The Account Settings dialog box appears.
08.50 In the left panel, again select the Gmail account. Now, click on Server Settings.
08.58 The Server Settings are displayed in the right panel.
09.02 In the check box Check for new messages every enter 20.
09.08 Thunderbird will now check for messages every 20 minutes.
09.12 Check the box Empty Trash on Exit.
09.15 All messages in the Trash folder will be deleted whenever you exit Thunderbird.
09.22 In the same manner you can customize your server settings.
09.27 In a similar manner, we can also set options to:
09.30 create copies of mails,
09.33 save draft mails,
09.35 change the location of the mails saved.
09.39 From the left panel, click Copies and Folders.
09.44 The Copies and Folders dialog box is displayed on the right panel.
09.49 Let’s keep these default options as they are.
09.53 Notice the option Place a copy in and Sent folder on are already selected.
10.00 To set options to save disk space, from the left panel, let’s select Disc Space.
10.08 Now, from the right panel, you will see the option To save disc space, do not download.
10.16 Check the box Messages larger than.
10.19 Now, in the KB field, enter 60.
10.24 Thunderbird will not download messages that are greater than 60KB.
10.30 Another useful Thunderbird feature is Identify Junk Messages.
10.35 You can train Thunderbird to identify junk and non junk messages.
10.41 To do this you must first set Junk Settings and then mark mails as junk and non junk.
10.48 Initially, you must identify Junk mail manually
10.52 By clicking the Junk Mail button for each mail. Over time,
10.56 Based on your selections,
10.59 Thunderbird will automatically identify “junk” mail
11.03 And move it to the Junk folder.
11.07 In the Account Settings dialog box, from the left panel, click Junk Settings.
11.13 The Junk Settings dialog box appears on the right-panel.
11.18 Notice that the Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account box is checked by default.
11.27 Under the Do not mark mail as junk if the sender is in list, check all the options.
11.35 Select the Move new junk message to field and select Junk folder on option. Click OK.
11.44 Now, click on Inbox and select the first mail.


11.48 The contents of the mail are displayed in the bottom panel.
11.52 Click the Junk icon.
11.54 Notice that the header Junk Mail is displayed.
11.58 In a similar manner you can set other preferences too!
12.03 Finally, can we delete a mail account that we configured in Thunderbird? Yes, we can!
12.10 From the left panel, select the account STUSERONE@gmail dot com.
12.16 From the right panel, under Accounts select View Settings for this account.
12.21 The Account Settings dialog box appears.
12.25 From the bottom left corner, click Account Actions and then click Remove Account.
12.32 A warning message is displayed.
12.35 If we click on OK, the account will be deleted.
12.39 However, for the purposes of this tutorial, we will not delete this account.
12.45 So we will click Cancel.
12.47 Let’s close this dialog box.
12.51 Remember, when you delete an email account,
12.53 All the folders and the mails
12.56 Corresponding to that email account
12.58 Will be deleted from Thunderbird.
13.00 Details may still be displayed in the left panel of the Mozilla Thunderbird window.
13.06 However, When you log in again, they will no longer be displayed.
13.12 This concludes this tutorial on Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0.2
13.18 In this tutorial we learnt how to:
13.20 Add new folders to an email account.
13.24 Set advanced filters to search for messages.
13.28 Manage message filters.
13.30 You also learnt how to:
13.32 Configure Yahoo account manually.
13.35 Manage multiple email accounts.
13.38 Change account settings for a mail account and
13.40 Delete an email account.
13.44 Here is an' Assignment' for you.
13.46 Setup an email account manually.


13.49 Change the settings of the account.
13.52 Set a preference to archive messages
13.56 Change preferences for Junk settings
14.00 Delete an email account
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