¿WHY MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD?

Thunderbird is a client of electronic mail of novel characteristics that turn it one more an option than attractive than it´s not possible to be let evaluate. Much people are changing Internet Explorer by, the more surely powerful and versatile Mozilla Firefox, but still you possibly use Outlook or some other client of mail.

Thunderbird is one of those programs that can compete with Outlook, not only because it has similar functionality, but also because he is friendly and free.

FIRST STEP: DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM

I) Of the official page of Mozilla Thunderbird download the version corresponding to your operating system (Windows, Linux or Mac). You will see download links in the left part. For Windows about 6 megas.

II) Execute (double click) the file that you have download. You follow the simple instructions (basically click in “Following”, leaving the defaults, and accepting the license of use of the program).

SECOND STEP: CONFIGURATION A MAIL ACCOUNT

Before beginning, we must configure an account of mail in the Control Panel of our company of hosting. Not to forget that Thunderbird is what a Client of mail is called: we must have a created account beforehand. Thunderbird allows to administer it us, nothing else.

I) Go to"Tools" > "Configuration of accounts "and click in "Add account...".

Thunderbird gives the option to open an account us of mail, or the news, or RSS. We chose “Account of electronic mail and click in “Following”.

II) We defined the identity of the account in Thunderbird.

In the first hollow we put our name. It´s what they will see the adressees in the field “Of: ”.

In the second the mail direction (you must writtes completes, for example: This direction of electronic mail is protected against robots of Spam, needs to have activated Javascript to be able to see it ).

Click in "Following".

III) Information of the server

POP or IMAP? In the information of your Control Panel in your supplier of hosting it comes if the mail accounts go of one or another way, if you are not safe leaves POP . You can read more about these subjects in the Wikipedia.

Your supplier of hosting will be give you the name of the server of mail, salient as as much incoming. Most normal it is than it´s mail.yourdomainanme.com (as much for the projection as for the incoming).

"Following".

IV) Name of user in Thunderbird.

Here it returns to write the name of the account.You must writtes completely

"Following".

V) Name of the account in Thunderbird.

By defect it appears the name of the direction that we are creating. We can change against the account here of house, counts of the work., etc.

"Following".

VI) In order to finish, will be a summary of the data that introduced, press “OK”.

In the left part superior of Thunderbird, click in “Receiving messages”, requests the associated password to the account that we finished creating. We introduce it and we will receive the unread messages (it´s possible that Thunderbird remembers this password and thus we dont have to introduce it every time)

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