PKI: Installing and
Configuring Thunderbird
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1. Installing Mozilla Thunderbird. You can download it from
www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/. Thunderbird can be used to check both IMAP
and POP accounts. If you are going to use Thunderbird to check a POP
account a third party extension has to be installed which can be found
at http://webmail.mozdev.org/index.html. You must install the web
extension and an optional component, which will be for your specific
email account. Currently, this extension only supports Yahoo, Hotmail,
Lycos, MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL accounts.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install Thunderbird. Upon start up
you will be asked if you want to make Thunderbird the default email
program, which is not necessary. You must only configure it to use the
email account where you will be sending and receiving secure mail. If
you are going to use a POP account you must now install the two
extensions before you can set up an email account. To see the steps to
setup a POP account refer to step 2a.
2. IMAP Email Account Setup. Starting Thunderbird for the first
time you should be viewing the Local Folders account, which will allow
you to manage all email accounts configured for Thunderbird. To create a
new account click the Create new account button.

Then select create an email account.

You will be prompted to enter the name you would like to have appear in
the “From” field of any outgoing message and the email address that
Thunderbird will use.

To use an IMAP account select IMAP and enter the information for the
incoming and outgoing servers.

The remaining set up process requires you to verify certain pieces if
information more precisely the user name for your email account and your
email address that Thunderbird is being configured to check.
2a. POP Email Account Setup. Install the two extensions and
restart Thunderbird to activate them. Before you setup an email account
it is best to check that the WebMail extensions are running. This can be
done by going to the Extension window for Thunderbird, clicking on the
Webmail extension and clicking options. Go to the server menu and make
sure the status of both POP and SMTP is running. Also check the Domain
menu and checking both the POP and SMTP domains, which should include
the domains for the email account Thunderbird will use.
The email account setup is the same as IMAP except when selecting the
type of incoming server choose POP and type localhost as the name of the
incoming server.

The incoming user name has to be the email address username@domain you
are setting up.

The remaining set up process requires you to verify certain pieces if
information more precisely that Thunderbird is being configured to
check.
3. SMTP Setup. To setup the SMTP server select Local Folders in
the Folders menu and select view settings for this account. Select the
Outgoing server (SMTP) option. You can change the server name but it
should already be setup for your email account along with your username
that should be used. If these are not correct make the appropriate
changes.
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