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How to set up mail in Mozilla. Working with the Mozilla Thunderbird email client

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When you are configuring an email account, Thunderbird will often be able to do most of the configuration automatically. (See Automatic Account Configuration for more information.) However, you will need to manually configure your account if your email provider is not listed in Thunderbird's automatic configuration database, or if you have a non-standard email configuration. This page will show you the basic settings you need to send and receive emails.

If an account that you created automatically was assigned to an IMAP rather than POP server, see the FAQ Changing IMAP to POP article.

To manually configure an account, you will need to have the following details which can be supplied by your email provider.

  • incoming mail server and port (for example, "pop.example.com" and port 110 or "imap.example.com" and port 143)
  • outgoing mail server and port (for example, "smtp.example.com" and port 25)
  • security setting for the connection with the server (for example, "STARTTLS" or "SSL/TLS" and whether or not to use secure authentication)

First, open the Account Settings: In the Thunderbird menu bar, click the Tools Edit menu and select Account Settings , or click the Application menu button and select OptionsPreferences and Account Settings from the sub-menu. Each email or newsgroup account that has already been configured is listed on the left side of the Account Settings dialog. These accounts correspond to the top-level folders displayed in the "All Folders" list.

At the bottom of the left pane, click the Account Actions button and select Add Mail Account….

Enter your email account details and press Continue. Thunderbird will try to determine your account settings based on the domain portion of your email address (that is, the portion after the "@" symbol). Then press Manual Configuration and edit the server names, ports and IMAP/POP to manually set up the account. Click Re-test to test your manual settings; there should be a quick response indicating the settings are valid. If not, press the Stop button to abort the lookup, then edit the server names, ports and IMAP/POP and click Re-test again. (Alternatively, you can allow the lookup to gather default account details and then manually change the settings later.)

Configure the outgoing server

Multiple email accounts can use the same outgoing SMTP server. Therefore, SMTP servers are created separately from email accounts. In the Account Settings dialog, in the left pane, select Outgoing Server (SMTP) from the bottom of the list. There may be an entry in the resulting list that was created when you entered your account details. Either edit that entry or add a new entry.

As another example, a Gmail account is configured as follows:

  • Server Name: smtp.gmail.com
  • Port: 587
  • Use name and Password: checked
  • User Name: your gmail user id without "@gmail.com" extension (for example, if your email address is [email protected], then your user name is "brian"). If you are using Google Apps for Domains, use your entire address (for example, " [email protected]").
  • Connection Security: STARTTLS

After saving the information about the new outgoing server, select your new email account from the list. In the Outgoing Server (SMTP) field, select the SMTP server from the drop-down list. Other items on the page were automatically created when you entered the account details - alter and extend as necessary.

Click on the Server Settings option under your new account. Make sure the entries in the following fields correspond to the settings given to you by your email provider.

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the best email clients today, second only to The Bat! (only because it is not possible to make a normal backup, but in other respects it is even better and more functional). Another advantage of this email program is that it is cross-platform.

In order to start setting up Mozilla Thunderbird, you need to have an already registered mailbox on one of the mail servers (gmail, Yandex mail, mail.ru, etc.). We launch the email client and the message Email will appear on the main screen. Click on it and in the window that opens, select the button Skip this and use my existing email; if you don’t have one, the program will offer to create it.

So, let's start setting up an email client to receive email. To do this, enter the data from your account on one of the e-mail servers in the window. In my case it will be mail.ru. You will also be prompted to create a new one. Enter all the required data and click Continue. In the next settings window you will be asked to select an IMAP or POP3 server, your choice will depend on your desires. Those. if you need security, you will choose IMAP; if security requirements are minimal, then choose POP3. Having selected the server, you can click Finish and start using the mail client. The program will enter all server settings automatically. If you know the more subtle settings of your server, click the Manual Configuration button. A window will open with more detailed settings for the incoming and outgoing mail server. To find out the ports or what authentication is on your server, in my case mail.ru, go to the website and in the Help section select the desired server: either IMAP or POP3. Because The Mozilla Thunderbird email program goes to the Internet and checks the settings, then they will be correct. After you have carried out a number of manipulations with the settings, you can click the Test button, after which a test will be carried out to see if your settings are working properly, if everything is entered correctly, then the email the client will receive all mail from your account and download it to your PC, if not, it will give an error. If everything went without errors, click the Finish button and see what mail the client received. Would you like to make more detailed settings? To do this, right-click on Local Folders and select Options.

A window with detailed account settings will open. You can change your account name. Here you can change:

That's all the settings for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The article made sure that there is a wide variety of email client settings. You can also create not just one mailbox, but several, thereby optimizing viewing mail from different mail servers in one program.

Step #1. Run the program "Mozilla Thunderbird". In the main program window, select "Create an account: Email":

Step #2. In the window that opens, select the button "Skip this and use my existing email".

Step #3. In the window that opens "Setting up a mail account" enter your name, mailbox address, password. Click the button "Continue".

Step #4. The program will attempt to automatically set up your account. You need to press a button "Manual setup" to specify the correct parameters.

Step #5. Adjust your account settings:

  • In field "Incoming:" select the mail protocol:
    • IMAP – all mail is stored on the server. Select IMAP if you plan to work with mail from multiple devices and through the web interface.
    • POP3 – mail is downloaded from the mail server. Select POP3 if you plan to work with mail from only one device.
  • In column "Server name" for incoming and outgoing mail, specify mail. nic. ru
  • Select an encrypted connection type « SSL/ TLS».

In case your ISP blocks any ports, you can use alternative ones.

  • The following ports are available for working with the mail server:
    • IMAP: SSL encrypted connection - 993, without encryption - 143
    • SMTP: encrypted connection SSL - 465, without encryption - 587
    • POP3: SSL encrypted connection - 995, without encryption - 110
  • In line "Username" Please provide the full mailbox name.
  • Click the button "Ready".

Congratulations! You have configured your mail.

    Launch the program and click the button in the welcome window Skip this and use my existing email.

    In the window Setting up your existing email account specify the following account parameters:

    • Your name is your username (for example, "Alice Little");

      Email address mail - your mailing address on Yandex (for example, « [email protected] » );

    Click the Continue button.

    Click the button Manual setup and specify the following email server parameters: Incoming mail

    • Protocol - IMAP;

      Server name is imap.yandex. ru ;

      Port - 993;

      SSL - SSL/TLS;

    \nOutgoing mail

      Server name is smtp.yandex. ru ;

      Port - 465;

      SSL - SSL/TLS;

      Authentication - Normal password.

    \n

    Also indicate the username - your Yandex login, for example, “alice.the.girl”.

    Attention. If you set up receiving mail from a mailbox like “login@yandex. ru », the login is the part of the address before the “@” sign. If you use Yandex.Mail for a domain, you must specify the full mailbox address as your login.

    Click the button Retest to check the correctness of the entered parameters. If the test was successful, click Finish.

    If you want to always use Mozilla Thunderbird to send emails, in the window Integration with the system click the button Set as default.

    Right-click on the account name and select Settings.

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    Go to the Copies and folders section and set all folders to the name of your Yandex mailbox.

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    Click OK to apply the changes and restart the program.

Problems with Mozilla Thunderbird

This step-by-step guide will help you solve problems related to your email program.

Select an issue:

What message did you receive?

If a message appears about no connection to the server, try logging into the Yandex.Mail web interface with the same username and password that you use in the program. Enter your username and password manually, without using those stored in the browser.

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For more information on how to check server settings in different mail programs, see the section.

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For more information on how to check server settings in different mail programs, see the section Encrypting transmitted data.

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Make sure that in your mail program settings you have accurately specified the following server parameters:

If you are using IMAP

Incoming mail

    mail server address - imap.yandex.ru;

    connection security - SSL;

    port - 993.

Outgoing mail

    mail server address - smtp.yandex.ru;

    connection security - SSL;

    port - 465.

If you are using POP3

Incoming mail

    mail server address - pop.yandex.ru;

    connection security - SSL;

    port - 995.

Outgoing mail

    mail server address - smtp.yandex.ru;

    connection security - SSL;

    port - 465.

For more information on how to check server settings in different email programs, see the section Encrypting transmitted data.



If the "Authentication required" message appears, "Sender address rejected: Access denied" or “Send auth command first”, authorization on the Yandex SMTP server is disabled in the mail program settings. Make sure the option is enabled User Authentication(for Outlook Express) or SMTP Authentication(for The Bat!).

If a message appears "Sender address rejected: not owned by auth user", the address from which you are trying to send a letter does not match the one under whose login you are authorized on the SMTP server. Make sure that in the mail program settings, the return address is set to exactly the address from which the login is used in the SMTP authorization settings.

If a message appears "Login failure or POP3 disabled", the mail program cannot access the mailbox using the POP3 protocol. Make sure that the correct password for the mailbox is entered and that access via the POP3 protocol is enabled in the Mail programs settings section.

If a message appears "Message rejected under suspicion of SPAM", the contents of your email were recognized by Yandex.Mail as spam. To solve the problem, open the Yandex.Mail web interface and send any one letter as a test. This way you will prove to the system that the letters are not being sent by a robot.

Check your computer for viruses using free antivirus programs: CureIt! from Dr.Web and Virus Removal Tool from Kaspersky Lab.

If your mail program does not accept or send letters, check that your mail program settings are correct, as well as your computer’s Internet connection settings.

If you are using an antivirus program, firewall, or proxy server, disable them and see if this reproduces the problem.

personal data and link a phone number to your account.

Read step-by-step instructions to find missing emails. Before you start, open Yandex.Mail in a new tab.

Select an issue:

When you delete messages, they go to the Deleted Items folder and are stored there for 30 days. During this period you can restore them:

    Go to the Deleted Items folder.

    Select the required letters.

    Click the To Folder button.

If more than a month has passed since they were deleted, it will not be possible to restore the letters - they have been permanently deleted from the Yandex.Mail servers.

If the letters are not in the folder where they should be, then most likely they ended up in another folder, for example in Deleted Items or Spam. If you remember the sender's name or address, part of the text of the letter or the subject, try searching for letters in all folders of your mailbox.

Have you found the letters?

You can restore letters:

    Go to the folder in which the letters were found.

    Select the required letters.

    Click the To Folder button.

    Select from the list the folder where you want to move the letters - for example, Inbox.

Why emails disappear and how to avoid it

The Deleted emails folder is stored for 30 days, and the Spam folder for 10 days. After this, they will be permanently deleted from Yandex servers. Why emails may end up in these folders without your knowledge:

Another user has access to your mailbox

Emails can be deleted by a user who has access to your mailbox: perhaps you forgot to end your session after working on someone else's device. To end your session, click the link in your account menu Log out on all devices. This can also be done on the Passports page - using the link Log out on all computers.

Letters disappear in the mail program

service page

A rule has been configured that deletes or moves letters. Letters disappear in the mail program.

If you use an email program and delete letters in it, they disappear on the service page. This happens because your program is configured using the IMAP protocol - in this case, the mailbox structure on the service is synchronized with the mailbox structure in the program. To delete messages only in the program, but leave them in Yandex.Mail, you can configure the program using the POP3 protocol, but we recommend not doing this: the messages may not synchronize correctly with the server.

A rule has been configured that deletes or moves emails Indicate reliable personal data in Yandex.Passport and link a phone number to your account. Our security system may have found your account suspicious and blocked your mailbox. Most often, this happens due to the fact that the phone number is not attached to the box or the Passport contains a fictitious first and last name. It usually takes a couple of hours to remove the lock.

If you delete letters in your mail program, but they are still in their folders on the Yandex.Mail website, then most likely your mail program is configured using the POP3 protocol. Due to the peculiarities of the POP3 protocol, messages in the mail program may not synchronize correctly with the server. To work with Yandex.Mail, it is recommended to use the IMAP protocol. To learn how to migrate your email program from POP3 to IMAP, see Migration from POP3.

If your email program does not display sent emails, then most likely your email program is configured using the POP3 protocol. Due to the peculiarities of the POP3 protocol, messages in the mail program may not synchronize correctly with the server. To work with Yandex.Mail, it is recommended to use the IMAP protocol. To learn how to migrate your email program from POP3 to IMAP, see Migration from POP3.

If you receive errors about an incorrect certificate when activating SSL encryption in your email program, make sure that your email program and operating system are configured correctly:

Manually add a certificate to the list of trusted certificates (Windows)

Attention. If you are not sure that you can install the certificate yourself, contact a specialist.

To add a certificate to the list of trusted certificates:

    Download the certificate. (If the linked file opens directly in your browser, click CTRL + S and save the file to your computer; there is no need to copy text from the file.)

    Open the Start menu.

Which includes a functional email client - a solution for business people in the corporate sector, the Mozilla Thunderbird mailer is perhaps the most ideal option for convenient work with email for ordinary users. For ordinary users who actively use email in everyday life. Convenient, minimalistic in terms of system resource consumption, with automatic setup of email accounts, flexible and customizable - Mozilla Thunderbird brings true comfort to working with multiple email accounts.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a functional mailer that supports IMAP and POP and HTML email protocols, as well as RSS news feeds, news groups and chats (personal correspondence) of IRC, Twitter, Facebook, Google Talk accounts. As for the last functionality, these, alas, are not the most popular communication services for Runet; for example, popular social networks - VKontakte and Odnoklassniki - are not. Nevertheless, the idea itself is good - to implement personal correspondence from social networks and various services for communication between people in the mailer.

Among the advantages of Mozilla Thunderbird are the efficiency of the program, security when working with email, a simple interface with a clear and understandable organization. Mozilla Thunderbird, like the browser, is an absolutely free cross-platform software product. The email client can be downloaded from its official website.

Adding a mail account

The first thing we see after launching Mozilla Thunderbird is a mailer window with options for adding email accounts and other components supported by the program. Click “Email” to add your mailbox to the software client.

If this is your first time adding an email account to your desktop mailer, be sure to check whether access to mail via IMAP and POP protocols is enabled in your mail service account settings.

And in the Mozilla Thunderbird mailer you will see a welcome window for setting up your email account. Moreover, if someone does not yet have an email account or needs a multi-account, Mozilla Thunderbird also offers quick account registration on email services with which the program cooperates - gandi.net and hover.com. These are English-language email services, but they are far from the most popular on the Internet, so naturally we will refuse the Mozilla Thunderbird offer. In our case, however, probably like in most others, there is a mailbox, so feel free to click “Skip this and use my existing mail.”

Mozilla Thunderbird will automatically select the optimal connection settings that are available in the program database for most popular mail servers. And in the next window, all that remains to be done is to select the protocol - IMAP or POP. The first protocol, IMAP, allows you to work with email without downloading it to the local space of your computer device. This is a more popular type of interaction between mail servers and client E-Mail applications, in which the user can have access to mail data both from the mailer and on the mail service website anywhere in the world where there is Internet. The POP protocol completely removes all mail from the mail server and transfers it locally to the computer. It can be used in rare cases when it is undesirable to leave mail on the server, but at the same time, emails must be stored in some secluded place on the computer or on removable media.

Select the protocol (in most cases it will be, of course, IMAP) and click “Finish”.

If the mailbox information was entered correctly, we will see how Mozilla Thunderbird is promptly replenished with incoming email messages. In just a couple of minutes, all letters from the server will be downloaded, and they will be displayed in the mailer window.

Interface

Do not be afraid of the poor, ascetic interface of the mailer, with the help of add-ons (extensions), like the Mozilla Firefox browser, the Mozilla Thunderbird program can also be “dressed up” in a beautiful cover from among the themes presented in the add-on store. Click on the mailer menu and select “Add-ons”.

In the first tab “Get add-ons”, select “Favorite topics” and click the “Show all” link.

Then select the one you like from the catalog of presented covers and click the “Add” button to apply it.

And in order to radically change the appearance of the mailer, you can apply so-called full design themes to it, which completely transform the program interface into a different style - with a different background color, with different fonts, with different icons. To get to their catalog, in the “Get add-ons” tab, select “Other customization methods” and click the “Show all full themes” link.

We get into the catalog of complete topics and select the one that interests you.

So, lovers of dark tones can give Mozilla Thunderbird a techno style in black.

Lovers of positive colors can choose cute themes in warm colors.

In order not to be distracted by the colors of the program interface, you can choose neutral themes with readable fonts.

Sorting

Mozilla Thunderbird is the ideal email application for those who like to collect various junk in their mailbox for years. The table of letters can be displayed by subject, sender, and date of receipt. In addition, the mailer is equipped with internal search and filters, with which you can display messages only unread, only with tags, only with attachments, etc.

Anti-spam and protection

Moreover, the anti-spam filter can be configured separately for each email account.

And also allow the antivirus installed on the system to quarantine suspicious emails.

Sound settings

If you are the leader of E-Mail subscriptions and often receive mail, in the “General” section of the mailer settings you can turn off the sound notification so that it does not annoy you. Or, on the contrary, you can set your favorite ringtone (".wav" format) or any other sound from the existing selection in Windows (C:\Windows\Media) as a sound alert, changing the preset system sound.

As you can see, Mozilla Thunderbird has plenty of functionality to comfortably work with incoming mail. What about outgoing mail?

Sending letters

To send an email, click the large noticeable button at the top “Create”. An additional window for creating and sending a message will appear. Here, from the drop-down list, we can select one or another email account from which the letter will be sent.

Mozilla Thunderbird is equipped with an internal spell checker - this is certainly a huge plus for the program. As for the capabilities of formatting sent text, the brainchild of Mozilla, of course, is far from the functionality of a full-fledged Word text editor built into Microsoft Outlook 2013, however, basic capabilities for formatting text are present.

To avoid writing the same letter text to many recipients, you can use Mozilla Thunderbird templates. We compose a universal letter once and save it in the mailer as a template.

What you will need to do in the future is to open it in the templates folder, if necessary, enter certain exact data, enter the recipient and, in fact, press the send button.

Export and import settings

It’s a pity that Mozilla Thunderbird is not equipped with cloud data synchronization, as is the case with most browsers. And, alas, there is no full-fledged function for importing/exporting settings in the mailer either. It is only possible to import settings from other email clients.

But it's not a problem. Transferring Mozilla Thunderbird settings can be done manually by copying the configured files to a non-system drive or transferring them to cloud storage. And then these files will need to be placed in the Mozilla Thunderbird settings folder after installing the program on a new reinstalled system or on a new device.

Before reinstalling the system or before using Mozilla Thunderbird on another computer device, go to the mailer settings directory:

Typically, the AppData folder is hidden and is not visible in Explorer by default. In order for it and its contents to be visible, you need to set the settings for displaying hidden elements in Windows Explorer.

The contents of the Thunderbird folder are the mailer settings files. We copy this folder with all its contents and place it on a non-system drive or send it to cloud storage on the Internet.

But on a new system or on a new computer, we install the Mozilla Thunderbird program, launch it and immediately close it without connecting email accounts. We follow the same path as before - we set the display of hidden elements in Windows Explorer and go to the mailer settings folder:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird

Open the “Thunderbird” folder with the old mailer settings in another Explorer window and drag all its contents into the new “Thunderbird” folder. Naturally, we replace the files in the destination folder.

Google Chrome or a Chromium-based clone like . Therefore, collecting all your mailboxes into a single, lightweight email client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, so as not to miss an important letter is a productive move. At the same time, no matter from which email service the email is sent, a functional mailer like Mozilla Thunderbird will offer its own tools for creating it, and there will be no need to delve into the peculiarities of the web interface of each individual account.

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