Configuring Thunderbird as Email Client

An email program will send mail to a SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server, and fetch mail from a IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) server.

Configuration Steps for Thunderbird

When you Start Thunderbird for the 1st time or navigate to the “Add Account” options. The “Mail Account Setup” dialogue box will pop up. Thunderbird will auto query DigiPen's imap and smtp Servers with the following credentials.

1. Your display name
2. Your email address - username@digipen.edu.
3. Your email account password.

Accepting security certificate

The “Mail Account Setup” will detect what security protocol is used by DigiPen's IMAP and SMTP Servers. It will detect the SMTP Server with no security which is not true and can be corrected later. A warning will pop up when you create the account. Check the “I understand the risks” checkbox and create the account.

Correcting SMTP Security Setting

You need to do this step in order to send out emails.

1. Open Tools -> Account Settings -> Outgoing Server(SMTP)
2. Select smtp.digipen.edu and click the “Edit” button.
3. Optional: Add DigiPen SMTP Server on the “Description” field.
4. Select “STARTTLS” in the drop down menu of “Connection Security”.
5. Click OK twice.

Conserving Space

Thunderbird have the option to delete/detach attachment from a message which will free up lots of space. There two methods to delete/detach an attachment.

• Select an attachment in the Attachments pane, right-click, and choose “Detach”, “Delete”, “Detach All”, or “Delete All”.
• Select a message in the message-list pane, go to “File -> Attachments”, and choose one of the detach/delete options.

Users can monitor their quota usage by the following method.

1. Right Click on inbox
2. Click on Properties
3. Navigate to Quota tab