Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a free alternative (e.g. Outlook Express) email program and makes emailing safer, faster, and easier, it includes features such as intelligent spam filters, RSS reader, quick search, and much more.
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Create Accounts
- Install Thunderbird
- Setup Thunderbird
- Setup a News Account
- Setup a Mail Account
Things to Check
- Mail Account Settings
- News Account Settings
Things to Check
- Leave Mail on the Server
Installing Thunderbird
Make sure you have the latest version of Thunderbird (which you can download from http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/), once downloaded start the installer by double clicking on the Thunderbird installer icon, you should then be presented with a Screen that looks similar to this:
- Read the License Agreement and if you accept it select the option ‘I Accept the terms of the License Agreement’.
- Click Next to continue
- Select the option for a Standard setup
- Click Next to continue
- Tick the box Launch Mozilla Thunderbird 1.x.x now
- Click the Finish button
Setting up Thunderbird
When Thunderbird first opens you will be presented with a variety of wizards, these are detailed below.
- Select the option Don’t import anything
If you have previously used Outlook Express then you can use the alternate option
- Select the option Email Account
- Click the Next button to continue
- Type in your Name, e.g. David Citizen
- Type in your email address, e.g. davidcitizen@eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
- Set the type of incoming sever you are using to POP
- Type in the Incoming Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Make sure that Use Global Inbox is ticked
- Type in the Outgoing Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Set the type of incoming sever you are using to POP
- Type in the Incoming Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Make sure that Use Global Inbox is ticked
- Type in the Outgoing Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Type in the Account Name, e.g. davidcitzen@eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Tick the box ‘Download messages now’
- Click the Finish button
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- If you would like Thunderbird as the Default Mail Program, click Yes
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- Type in your password, and tick the box Use Password Manager…
- Click the OK button to continue
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- Click the OK button to continue
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- You should now be able to see your inbox and any messages you have received.
Setup a News Account
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- Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings
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- Click on the Add Account button
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- Select the option Newsgroup Account
- Click the Next button to continue
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Note: Newsgroups are a public forum, often used for obtaining email addresses and details of people that can be used for sending unsolicited emails. It is therefore suggested that you use an Alias (rather than your real name), and a 3rd party web mail based service, e.g. www.hotmail.com so that your real email address doesn’t become clogged with spam.
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Type in news.eftel.com as the Newsgroup Server
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Type in an account name, e.g. news.eftel.com
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Click the Finish button
- Your Newsgroup Account will now be setup and ready for use
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- Click on news.eftel.com
- Click on Manage Newsgroup Subscriptions
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- Find your desired newsgroup, e.g. 24hoursupport.helpdesk
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- Highlight the appropriate newsgroup and click on the Subscribe button
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- Once subscribed you will see a tick next to the appropriate newsgroup
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- Click on the name of the subscribed newsgroup and you can then view the messages, reply, etc.
Setup a Mail Account
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- Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings
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- Click on the Add Account button
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- Select the option Email Account
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Type in your Name, e.g. David Citizen
- Type in your email address, e.g. davidcitizen@eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Set the type of incoming sever you are using to POP
- Type in the Incoming Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Make sure that Use Global Inbox is ticked
- Type in the Outgoing Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Set the type of incoming sever you are using to POP
- Type in the Incoming Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Make sure that Use Global Inbox is ticked
- Type in the Outgoing Server as mail.eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Type in the Account Name, e.g. davidcitzen@eftel.net.au
- Click the Next button to continue
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- Tick the box ‘Download messages now’
- Click the Finish button
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- If you would like Thunderbird as the Default Mail Program, click Yes
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- Type in your password, and tick the box Use Password Manager…
- Click the OK button to continue
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- Click the OK button to continue
Mail Account Settings
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- Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings
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- Highlight your email address on the Left and click the + sign to expand your settings, as shown above.
- The Your Name section is the name people see when you send them an email.
- Check that your Email Address is correct, e.g. username@eftel.com
- Click on Server Settings to continue
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- Server Type should be set to POP Mail Server
- The server name is the last part of your email address, prefixed with mail, e.g. test@eftel.com means the mail server will be mail.eftel.com.
- Your username is your full email address, e.g. test@eftel.com
- Check that Use Secure Connection (SSL) and Use Secure Authentication are un-ticked.
- Click on Copies & Folders to continue
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- Your settings should resemble those shown above.
- Click on Composition & Addressing to continue
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- Send ‘Text Only’ email by un-ticking Compose Messages in HTML Format (Optional).
- Your remaining settings should be similar to those shown above.
- Click on Disk Space to continue
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- The Disk Space setting can remain un-ticked, however if you want to avoid downloading large attachments you can tick this box and set the size to approximately 50 KB or anything you deem suitable.
- Click on Return Receipts to continue
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- The options here can be altered to suit, however in most cases it will be set to use my global return receipt preferences for this account.
- Click on Security to continue
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- Your settings should resemble the screens shown above.
- Click on Local Folders to continue
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- Your settings should be similar to those shown above.
- Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) to continue
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- The server name is the last part of your email address, prefixed with mail, e.g. test@eftel.com means the mail server will be mail.eftel.com.
- Port should be set to 25
- Un-tick the box Use Name and Password
- Click on the OK button to close the Mail Account Settings window.
News Account Settings
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- Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings
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- Highlight the newsgroup server on the Left (e.g. news.eftel.com) and click the + sign to expand your settings, as shown above.
- In the your name, type in a nick name/alias (refer below).
- The email address you are using for newsgroups should be set here.
Note: Newsgroups are a public forum, often used for obtaining email addresses and details of people that can be used for sending unsolicited emails. It is therefore suggested that you use an Alias (rather than your real name), and a 3rd party web mail based service, e.g. www.hotmail.com so that your real email address doesn’t become clogged with spam.
- Click on Server Settings to continue
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- Server Type should be set to News Server (NNTP)
- The server name should be news.eftel.com
- The other settings should be similar to those shown above
- Click on Copies & Folders to continue
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- Your settings should resemble those shown above.
- Click on Composition & Addressing to continue
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- Your settings should be similar to those shown above.
- Click on Offline & Disk Space to continue
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- Your settings can be customized to suit your needs; however as standard they should resemble the above.
- Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) to continue
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- The options here can be altered to suit, however in most cases it will be set to use my global return receipt preferences for this account.
- Click on the Security tab to continue
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- Your settings should resemble the screens shown above.
- Click on the Local Folders tab to continue
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- Your settings should be similar to those shown above.
- Click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) tab to continue
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- The server name is the last part of your email address, prefixed with mail, e.g. test@eftel.com means the mail server will be mail.eftel.com.
- Port should be set to 25
- Un-tick the box Use Name and Password
- Click on the OK button to close the Mail Account Settings window.
Leave Mail on the Server
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- Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings
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- Highlight your email address on the Left and click the + sign to expand your settings, as shown above.
- Click on Server Settings to continue
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- Tick the box Leave messages on Server and then tick the setting For at most 7 days this will then keep a copy of the message on the server.
- Click on the OK button to close the Account Settings window.
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