Using ‘Thunderbird’ to Manage e-mail Accounts · Web viewThunderbird is a program designed to enable you to manage one or more e-mail accounts from a single platform (as opposed

Using ‘Thunderbird’ to Manage e-mail

Accounts

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Thunderbird is a program designed to enable you to manage one or more e-mail accounts from a single platform (as opposed to having to sign-in to each account separately). It represents an alternative to the Windows Live Mail option which has been used by many of our members for the past few years. Thunderbird has been written by the Mozilla organization and works very well in a Windows-10 operating environment.

Members are advised to get the Thunderbird setup software from one of our Home Help Technicians rather than trying to download it directly from an internet site. The reason for this recommendation is to ensure that we all adopt a standard approach to establishing the platform on our machines and that we are not inundated with offers of numerous additional “free” packages which we do not want.

Setting-up your edition of Thunderbird Copy the Thunderbird setup program into your ‘Downloads’ library. Double-click on the Thunderbird entry in your Downloads library to start the setup

procedure. The following sub-menus will then appear:

The standard version of Thunderbird will now be installed on your computer. The next step is for you to establish your existing e-mail system on the Thunderbird

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Click on ‘Next’

Click on ‘Finish’

Click on ‘Install’

Click on ‘Next’

platform. The following series of illustrations shows the steps involved in making a copy of a gmail account available via Thunderbird.

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Choose ‘Set as default’ Click on this

button

Enter information relating to your existing account. Click

Click on ‘Done’.

Enter your e-mail account name and Password. Click on ‘ALLOW’.

The newly-created Thunderbird version of your existing e-mail account will now be displayed, as follows . . .

Note your e-mail account name near the top of the left panel. Note also the calendar feature in the right panel. (More about this later.)

By clicking on the ‘Inbox’ heading in the left panel you will see all your Inbox messages listed, together with a ‘Welcome’ message from Thunderbird.

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