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Thunderbird Help - Tutorials - Managing Thunderbird Mail Accounts by Daniel Wang
Mozilla Thunderbird gives you flexible control over how you manage
mail. You can have multiple mail accounts and identities. (An identity
refers to information on display name, signature, vCard, etc.) You
share mail folders among different accounts. This article helps you
with account and identities management.
Note: this article does not cover importing mail from other programs. For switching mail client, read the Thunderbird 1.0 Getting Started Guide. Note: most of this article also applies to the upcoming Mozilla 1.8. The next article will cover how to efficiently manage mail messages (mail filters, window settings, saved searching folders, etc.) Mail Account Setup In this section: Before Setting Up An Account Before setting up your account, you should know the following information:
If you do not know these, ask your mail service provider. Creating a Mail Account To set up an e-mail account, open the Tools menu and choose Account Settings. Press Add Account. The Account Wizard should open:
Creating additional outgoing mail servers By default, the outgoing server of your first account will become the default and used
for all outgoing messages. Some mail servers verify the To set up additional outgoing servers:
To use a different (non-default) outgoing server for an account:
Getting mail In this section: Receiving mail manually To retrieve new messages in the current mail account, click the Get Mail button.
If multiple accounts are grouped under this account, this will retrieve
mail in those accounts that are Tip: you can also press Ctrl+T to download messages. If you have more than one account folders, you can download all new messages by clicking the arrow of the Get Mail button and choosing Get All New Messages. Note: if an account uses Global Inbox or another account's folder
directory, and it is not Tip: you can also press Ctrl+Shift+T to download all new messages. Thunderbird may ask you for password. Enter the password. Check
Checking Mail Automatically By default, Thunderbird checks your first mail account for new messages on startup, and Thunderbird checks all mail account every 10 minutes. For the settings on when and how often Thunderbird checks for new mail:
When Thunderbird finds new messages, it displays a message box and plays a sound. For settings on new mail prompt:
Global and shared inboxes You can put each POP mail account in its own folder directory, with its own Inbox, Trash, Draft, and other mail folders. Or you can group multiple POP mail accounts under Global Inbox (Local Folders) or a shared folder directory. When you create a new POP account, you have an option to create a new folder directory or use the Global Inbox. You may merge or separate mail accounts afterward. To change the folder directory of a POP mail account:
Managing identities In this section:
Setting sender identity The sender identity is information that helps identify the sender. This information usually includes the display name and e-mail address, but it may also include information like the signature, vCard, and digital certificate. To set your sender identity for an account:
Choosing an identity when writing a message To choose an identity when writing a message, open the From drop-down menu and choose from the list. To choose whether or not to attach a vCard (personal card), click the arrow of the Attach button and choose Personal Card. Managing multiple identities per account You can have multiple identities for a mail account. Each identity can have its own sender name and address, reply-to address, signature, vCard, and other settings. When you write or reply to a mail message, you can choose the identity that best suits the situation. For example, you can have different signatures and display names for messages to customers and messages to co-workers. To add or edit an mail identity for an account:
Troubleshooting Thunderbird cannot connect to the mail server If you have a personal firewall, check if Thunderbird is blocked from using the Internet. It is not recommended that you disable your personal firewall just to allow Thunderbird to use the Internet. Thunderbird reports that the username/password is wrong.Check that you have entered the password correctly, especially the
case (e.g. Also, check your username. On some servers, your username is your entire e-mail address (e.g. danielwang@mozillanews.org instead of danielwang). Thunderbird reports that the sender address does not match.By default, the outgoing server of your first account will be used for all outgoing messages. However, some mail servers verify the sender address (e.g. you cannot send messages as an @yahoo.com user through an AOL mail server). If this is the case, set up the correct outgoing server for your account. Get Mail does not work on a newly created mail account.Click the arrow of the Get Mail button and choose the account. Thunderbird may prompt you for password. After this, mail check should work. ![]() 98 and 2000/XP Lite. Note: Please allow the site to set cookies. This way, referred sales can be attributed to the Mozilla Help Site. $2,300.25 that were generated by 98 and 2000/XP Lite sales through this site have been donated to the Mozilla Foundation so far. Read more about using 98 and 2000/XP lite in this FAQ question. |
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