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Setup thunderbird email to use gmail (incoming and outgoing)

Computer Aid Posted on by

As part of my process of moving from TheBat! to Thunderbird, I had some pop3 gmail accounts to setup in thunderbird.

thunderbirdAt first I just tried to copy the settings from TheBat!, but it didn’t seem to work.

After a look at googles configuration help, I see that Thunderbird needs to use SSL for incoming emails. That was quick to fix.

Next, I thought I’d setup gmail for outgoing emails as well.

So I followed googles instructions for this (the main point is to use the “TLS if available” setting). It sounds simple enough, but it didn’t work.

Thunderbirds account settings are arranged a bit different to most other email clients… particularly when it comes to configuring outgoing connections.

Yes, most people will use their ISPs SMTP settings for outgoing emails, but I figure if I can I’ll use googles outgoing  mail server if possible.

So, With Thunderbird, all outgoing SMTP connections are configured in one place (“outgoing server (SMTP)”).

Then, within each pop account settings, there is a section where you select the outgoing server from the list that you created previously… It feels backwards to me, but then not many people setup their email client with 6 different email accounts.

Anyway, after some quick experimenting, I find that I just need to make the outgoing gmail settings use SSL and port 465.

outlook synchronizing with each email received

Computer Aid Posted on by

I had setup a new PC to replace an older one. The old PC had office 2003, and customer had agreed on Office 2007 Home and student… This meant I needed to get outlook, publisher, etc from office 2003 onto the new PC.

The solution is simple: first install Office 2003, then Office 2007.

Well, it mostly worked.

Copying the old emails across was easy, but when I setup the POP account details, I hit the send/receive button, it got weird:

An install window would appear for a few seconds, then an outlook synchronization icon would appear in the notification area of the taskbar for a few seconds.

Since this happened with each email, downloading 50 emails took a long time.

While the emails were downloading, I searched for a solution, and I found many suggestions at techrepublic.com

What worked in this case was:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=206501&messageID=2178299

put simply: right click on the inbox -> properties -> untick “Automatically generate Microsoft Exchange views”

Simple huh?