| Configuring Thunderbird for IMAP
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Article #1056
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If you are
a UC Davis student using DavisMail please see DavisMail
POP/IMAP Access
This article pertains to Thunderbird on Mac OS X, Windows
XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Linux. Due to variances in the operating systems, the look of
the dialog boxes may differ, however the install process is still the
same.
In this article we will be
setting up Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 to access "John Smith's" email
account via IMAP.
His email address is jsmith@ucdavis.edu and his UCD LoginID is
jsmith
- Start by opening Thunderbird
- If anything pops up when you start Thunderbird, click Cancel to close the windows,
otherwise:
- Go to the Tools menu
and select Account Settings...
- Account Settings
- Click on Add Account...
on the bottom left corner of the window.
- New Account Setup
- Make sure Email account
is selected.
- Click Next
- Identity
- For Your Name, type
in your name as you would like it to appear to others on your sent
messages.
- For Email Address,
type in your email address as you would like it to appear to others on
your sent messages.
- Click Next
- Server Information
- Make sure IMAP is
selected
- For Incoming Server,
type in mail.ucdavis.edu
- For Outgoing Server,
type in smtp.ucdavis.edu
- Click Next
- User Names
- For Incoming User Name,
type in your UC Davis LoginID
- For Outgoing User Name,
also type in your UC Davis LoginID
- Click Next
- Account Name
- Make sure the Account Name
is appropriate and click Next
- Congratulations!
- Review the information, and click Finish.
- Account Settings
- On the left hand side, click on Server Settings under the account
you just made.
- For Use secure connection,
select SSL. Make sure the port
number is 993
- Click on the Advanced...
button
- Advanced Account Settings
- For IMAP server directory
type in mail/
- Click OK.
- Account Settings
- On the left hand side, click on Outgoing Server (SMTP).
- Select the existing smtp.ucdavis.edu
account setting and click Edit... if you do not have an
existing smtp.ucdavis.edu account setting, click on Add...
- SMTP Server
- For Server Name,
type in smtp.ucdavis.edu
- For Port, type in 587
- Note: If you are unable to send mail with the SMTP
port
set to
587, try setting the outgoing port back to 25. Some
ISPs block port 25, however, and if you cannot send
mail either way, you should contact your ISP to see if they will enable
one of those ports for your account.
- Check the box for Use name
and password
- For User Name, type
in your UC Davis LoginID
- For Use secure connection,
select TLS
- Click OK
- Account Settings
- If you are brought back to this screen, click OK. You are now done with the setup.
- If you are prompted for your password, type in your password, you
may choose to have Thunderbird Use
Password Manager to remember this password if you like,
otherwise you will be prompted each time you start Thunderbird. Click OK
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| Article last modified 2009-10-28 08:33:02
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