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Mozilla Thunderbird is a mail client that allows users to retrieve, view, and compose messages from multiple email accounts.
- Adding an email account
- Deleting an email account
- Setting an account as default
- Setting your outgoing SMTP server
To add an email account:
- In the menu, select File > New > Account.
- Select "Email Account" and click "Next".
- Enter your desired outgoing name and email address and click "Next".
- Select "IMAP".
- Enter the name of your incoming server in the field beside "Incoming Server".
- If you are an undergraduate student, the name of your incoming server is
"mailservices.uwaterloo.ca".
- If you a graduate student, staff or faculty member, the name of your incoming server is "mail.cs.uwaterloo.ca".
- Click "Next" twice.
- Enter a name for your new account beside "Account Name" and click "Finish".
- Do not click on your new email account in the folder pane on the left to retrieve messages yet.
- In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings.
- In the left hand menu, click on "Server Settings" in the account you want to edit.
- Make sure the "User Name" is your userid. If your full UWuserid is greater than eight characters long, use the shortened eight-character version.
- Checkmark the "Use secure connection (SSL)" option in the "Server Settings" section.
- Click "Ok" to save your settings.
- In the folder pane, click on the name of the account from which you want to retrieve messages.
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To delete an email account:
- In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings.
- In the left hand menu, click on the name of the account you want to delete.
- In the bottom left hand corner, click on "Remove Account".
- Click "Ok" twice to save your settings.
Note: After deleting an account, Thunderbird may display an alert that reads,
"Failed to remove this account." You should disregard this alert, which
is due to a bug in Thunderbird's system, because your account has in fact been deleted.
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The email account you set as default will appear first in the list of
accounts in the folder pane. In addition, messages you compose will
automatically be sent from your default account unless you specify otherwise
(See "Sending messages from a specific email account").
To set one of your email accounts as default:
- In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings.
- Click on the name of the account you want to set as default.
- In the bottom left hand corner, click on "Set as Default".
- Click "Ok" to save your settings.
To set your outgoing SMTP server, please do the following:
- In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings. (Edit -> Account Settings
on some platforms)
- In the left-hand pane, click on "Outgoing Server (SMTP)".
- Set the "Server Name" to the name you specified in the section
"Adding an email account".
- If your computer is or may be off-campus, set the Port to 587,
otherwise, leave it as the default 25.
- Checkmark the option "Use name and password", and enter your
userid in the "User Name" text box.
- Check the option "TLS" under "Use secure connection".
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Last modified: Thursday, 02-Sep-2010 16:21:12 EDT
