Thunderbird Setup
This tutorial is based on Thunderbird 5. If you're using a different version, the naming convention may differ but the settings will remain the same.
- Start up Thunderbird
- In the Mail Account Setup window, enter your name and email address. Enter your password here if you want to have it remembered. Click Continue.
- Thunderbird will now attempt to look for the IMAP information. Please make sure that you have IMAP selected.
- Click on Manual config in the lower left corner to make sure that the information is as follow:
- Incoming
- IMAP
- Server hostname: imap.ics.uci.edu
- Port: 993
- SSL: SSL/TLS
- Authentication: Normal password
- Outgoing
- UCI SMTP, if you're connecting from a laptop or from off campus, please use UCI SMTP server settings or your ISP server settings.
- For UCI SMTP, see settings from steps numbered 14 -16
- ICS SMTP
- If your machine in on the UCI-ICS domain
- Server hostname: smtp.ics.uci.edu
- Port: 25
- SSL: None
- Authentication: No authentication
- You will get a notice that this is not secure. Please ignore and continue.
- If your machine is NOT on the UCI-ICS domain (must be connected via VPN)
- Server hostname: smtp.ics.uci.edu
- Port: 25
- SSL: SSL/TLS
- Authentication: Normal password
- Click Create Account
- If you did not choose to have your password saved, you will now be prompted to enter your email password.
- Go to Tools and select Account Settings
- Under Server Settings, click on the Advanced... button
- Make sure that IMAP server directory is empty
- Uncheck Show only subscribed folders
- Uncheck Allow server to override these namespaces
- This last step is optional. If you have a lot of emails, you may want to diable Message Synchronizing so that your email will load more quickly.
- While still on Account Settings window, select Synchronization & Storage
- Uncheck Keep messages for this account on this computer