Mozilla Thunderbird is an e-mail program. It was created to relieve the client of the need to use an electronic mailbox using a browser. In order to fully use mail in Thunderbird, the user needs to configure it.
Automatic addition of a new mailbox
When you first start Mozilla Thunderbird, the program itself offers to add a new account. In this case, you can create a new mailbox or enter the data of an existing one. In the first case, she suggests creating an email address. mail with a maintenance cost of $ 15-20 per year or use one of the many free servers. A link to their list is displayed in the same window.
In the second case, when you click on the "Use my existing mail" button, a window will open for entering your login, password and initials. The latter are displayed next to the recipient's subject line.
When entering login and password during mail setup, MozillaThunderbird will automatically download from the server of the developer company all the necessary parameters for sending and receiving emails. This feature requires an internet connection to work.
Manually setting up a new mailbox
If there is temporarily no Internet connection or the parameters of the mail server used are not in the developer's databases, then you can use its "manual" option to configure Mozilla Thunderbird.
To do this, call the "Account Settings" dialog box. You can do this in 2 ways:
- Click on the "Thunderbird Menu" button on the right side of the window and select "Settings" and "Account Settings" in it.
- Right-click in the left separated part of the window and select "Settings" in the context menu
In the new window at the bottom left, click on the "Account Actions" button and select "Add account" in the drop-down menu. mail record.”
In the window for adding an email address. mail to enter the required data. After adding them and clicking OK. Then the server options and the "Manually configure" button will appear at the bottom. After activating it, LMB will open changeable parameters: server address, port, protocol (for incoming messages), encryption and verification methods.
To configure for a specific mail server, you need to change all 5 parameters. The table below shows their values for popular email services.
| Postal nameservice | POP server address | Port | IMAP server address | Port | SMTP server address | Port | Encryption |
| Google.com ([email protected]) | pop.gmail.com | 995 | imap.gmail.com | 993 | smtp.gmail.com | 465 or 587 | SSL/TSL or START/TLS |
| Yandex ([email protected]/ua/kz) | pop.yandex.ru | imap.yandex.ru | smtp.yandex.ru | 465 | SSL/TSL | ||
| Mail.ru ([email protected]/bk.ru/list.ru/inbox.ru) | pop.mail.ru | imap.mail.ru | smtp.mail.ru | ||||
| pop.rambler.ru | imap.rambler.ru | smtp.rambler.ru | |||||
| Microsoft Mail:([email protected]/live.ru/outlook.com) | pop-mail.outlook.com | imap-mail.outlook.com | smtp-mail.outlook.com | 587 | START/TLS |
After this setup, Mozilla Thunderbird will be able to send and download emails.
POP3 and IMAP protocols: what is the difference and how to change settings
They differ betweenis the organization of work with the mail server. The first protocol downloads all emails to the computer and deletes them from the hard drive of the mail service. As a result, they are stored only in this location.
Second protocol downloads email but does not delete it from the server. This allows you to work with letters from any computer. This rule set is supported by all modern email clients and most email servers.
To change the POP3 protocol to IMAP, you need to:
- Create a new IMAP account.
- Copy folders from an account with connected POP3 to it.
- Delete account from POP3.
After this procedure, all messages from an account using the IMAP protocol will be copied to the mail server.
Sync settings
During synchronization, all actions with letters performed in Mozilla Thunderbird are duplicated on the mail server and vice versa. By default, the client copies all folders to the hard disk of the mail server. But this can be changed. This is done as follows:
- Open the "Account Settings" window and go to the "Synchronization and Storage" subsection.
- Uncheck the box next to "Store messages for this account…" to completely disable synchronization.
- Press the "More" button.
- In the small window that opens, check the boxes next to the folders that you want to duplicate on the mail server.
Synchronizes every time you connect to the Network.
Autosign message
This function is designed to automatically add some template information (contact details, initials or a wish) to the end of the created letter. To set up a mail signature in Thunderbird, you need to:
- Open the Account Settings window.
- In it, click on the e-mail address.
- In the subsection that opens, enter all the necessary data in the text field.
In the letter, they will be displayed in the same way as they are written. In addition to plain text, you can use any html tags responsible for formatting. For example: text or text.
In addition to filling in the field in the mail settings, you can insert a picture or html document with the desired content instead of a text signature. When writing a message, you need to call the properties of the inserted image (it will be displayed in the text of the letter) and in this window check the box next to the line “Attach this image in the message”. This will allow the recipient to receive the message in its entirety and not download the signature separately.
Antispam filter
This feature is enabled by default in Mozilla Thunderbird and allows you to additionally filter out useless or promotional emails. The filter has 2 settings levels: for an individual account and general.
In the first case, to get access to the filter settings, you need to open the "Account Settings" window and go to the "Anti-spam filter" subsection.
It allows you to enable/disable the filter and configure where to move emails marked as spam by the user.
Access to the general settings of the anti-spam filter can be obtained from the same window after clicking on the "Global Settings" button. They configure the filter learning parameters, namely, what to do with marked messages: delete or move to the Spam folder.
To learn antispam, when reading useless and promotional emails, click on the "Spam" button located in the upper right corner of the message's quick view area. If you do this regularly, then after a while Mozilla Thunderbird will automatically move spam from the Inbox to the appropriate folder.
Ban on receiving emails
This task is performed by the built-in message filter. It does not prohibit downloading letters from a specific sender, but moves them from the main folder to Spam or deletes them. Setting this option in Mozilla Thunderbird is done according to the following algorithm:
- In the preview block, right-click on the sender's address of the spam email and select the "Create filter from…" menu item.
- In the window that opens, enter the name of the new filter.
- Check the box next to "Meet any of the conditions" so that the filter reacts to any address from the list.
- In the lower half of the window, select the action to be performed by the program from the drop-down list.
- Press OK.
To add new addresses to the filter, just open it (Mozilla Thunderbird menu > Message filters > select the desired > Edit) and click on the button with the "+" sign. It will add another field for the new email address.
Manage saved passwords
When adding new accounts, Mozilla Thunderbird offers to save their passwords in memory. This is a handy feature, but not secure because anyone with access to a computer can copy them. To avoid this, there are 2 options in the Mozilla Thunderbird settings.
The first one provides access to available passwords. To get it, you need:
- In the main menu, select the "Settings" sub-item.
- In the new window, successively go to the "Protection" and "Passwords" tabs.
- Press the Saved Passwords button.
In this window, you can view passwords (the "Display" button) or delete them.
The second setting allows you to restrict access to the vault with a password. For this you need:
- Check the box next to the "Master Password" line.
- In the window that opens, enter the combination and click "OK".
You will need to enter this password every time you start the program.
Setting up Mozilla Thunderbird is a fairly simple process thanks to the program's friendly interface.
