Initial Setup of Mozilla Thunderbird with IMAP for Windows 7

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Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird®

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Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for Windows® 7

Concept

This document describes the procedures for setting up the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to download messages from Google Mail™ using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) with the Windows 7 operating system. IMAP synchronizes the actions you take in the Thunderbird client with Google Mail so if you read or delete a message in the client, it will be marked as such in the Google Mail web interface. These instructions are intended for users that already have an active CWRU Google Mail account and want to set up the Thunderbird email client for the first time.

Procedure

Step Action

1. Open your web browser (in this example Mozilla Firefox® is used) and navigate to: “webmail.case.edu”. Enter your CWRU Network ID and password and then click the LOGIN button.

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Step Action

2. The Google Mail inbox window will open.

Click the Settings icon (resembling a gear) in the top right corner of the screen.

3. Select the Settings menu option.

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Step Action

4. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP menu option.

5. Click the Disable POP radio button to select it.

6. Click the Enable IMAP radio button to select it.

7. Scroll to the bottom of the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings window and then click the Save Changes button.

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Step Action

8. The Google Mail inbox window will open.

Click the Settings icon (resembling a gear) in the top right corner of the screen.

9. Select the Settings menu option.

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Step Action

10. Click the Labels menu item.

11. Click the check box next to each label you wish to appear in the Thunderbird client as a mail folder.

Note: Labels that do not have the Show in IMAP block checked will not be accessible in as folders in the Thunderbird client.

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Step Action

12. Enter “http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird” into your browser address bar and press the Enter key.

13. Click the Thunderbird Free Download button.

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Step Action

14. The Windows 7 operating system may give you a message stating the Thunderbird Setup program could harm your computer.

Click the Run button to proceed.

15. The Windows 7 operating system will run a security scan and then extract the setup files.

16. The Opening Thunderbird Setup dialog box will appear and ask if you would like to save the executable file.

Click the Save File button.

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Step Action

17. Locate the download folder for your PC and double click on the Thunderbird executable file to launch the installation program.

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Step Action

18. The Open File dialog box will appear and ask if you want to run the file.

Click the Run button.

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Step Action

19. The Welcome to Mozilla Thunderbird Setup Wizard will open.

Click the Next > button.

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Step Action

20. Leave the default option selected and click the Next > button.

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Step Action

21. Click the Install button.

22. The setup wizard will install the required files.

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Step Action

23. Click the Finish button to proceed with the installation.

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Step Action

24. Click the check boxes next to any email providers listed to de-select them for installation. In this example, we click the check box next to the Hover.com option to de-select it.

25. Click the Skip this and use my existing email button.

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Step Action

26. Enter your name as you would like it displayed on your outgoing email into the Your name field.

27. Enter your CWRU email address into the Email address field.

28. Enter your CWRU email password into the Password field and ensure the Remember password block is checked.

29. Click the Continue button.

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Step Action

30. The Thunderbird setup wizard will attempt to connect to Google Mail.

31. When the setup wizard fails to find the email settings for your Google Mail account, you must enter them manually.

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Step Action

32. Enter “imap.gmail.com” into the Incoming Server hostname field.

33. Enter “993” into the Incoming Server Port block (or select it from the drop down menu).

34. Select the SSL/TLS option from the Incoming Server SSL drop down menu.

35. Select the Normal password option from the Incoming Server Authentication drop down menu.

36. Enter “smtp.cwru.edu” into the Outgoing Server hostname field.

37. Enter “25” into the Outgoing Server Port block (or select it from the drop down menu).

38. Select the STARTTLS option from the Outgoing Server SSL drop down menu.

39. Select the Normal password option from the Outgoing Server Authentication drop down menu.

40. Click the Re-test button.

41. If the settings have been entered correctly the Create Account button will now be available.

Click the Create Account button to continue.

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Step Action

42. You can de-select the Always perform this check when starting Thunderbird option and select the Newsgroup option (if desired) by clicking the associated check boxes.

43. Click the OK button.

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Step Action

44. Click on the Tools menu and then select Account Settings.

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Step Action

45. Double click the Outgoing Server (SMTP) menu item (from the bottom of the list) at the left of the Account Settings window.

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Step Action

46. Click the Edit button on the right of the Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings window.

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Step Action

47. The SMTP Server settings dialog box will open.

In the Description block type: “CWRU Google Mail”.

48. Ensure the Server Name reads: “smtp.cwru.edu”.

49. In the Port block type:

“25”.

50. Ensure the Connection security block reads: “STARTTLS”

51. Ensure the Authentication method block reads: “Normal Password”.

52. Remove “@case.edu” from the User Name block.

Note: Only the alpha-numeric portion of your CWRU Network ID (abc123) should remain in this block.

53. Click the OK button to close the SMTP Server settings dialog box.

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Step Action

54. Double click the Composition & Addressing menu item.

55. The Thunderbird default option for email replies will start the reply thread following the original message.

You can use the drop down menu to change the default option to: start my reply above the quote. This will place the reply thread above the original message.

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Step Action

56. Additionally you can manage your Signature Options from the Account Settings main window.

57. End of Procedure.