There are benefits to using IMAP, and the rest of this tutorial will therefore focus on Gmail setup as IMAP while Thunderbird 3 lets you manually configure your Gmail account to use POP3, it will automatically configure itself to use Gmail as IMAP, which is the preferred option! Enable POP3 / IMAP in your Gmail account Since Gmail uses standard email protocols (IMAP and POP3), you can use literally any email program you want with Gmail (since support for these two protocols is ubiquitous.)
But with IMAP, folders are "synchronized" between the live Gmail service you use inside a browser, and any desktop email clients you use to connect to the Gmail mail service. In other words, any email folder you create for your Gmail account inside Thunderbird will not be visible in your live Gmail account.
Change the User Name to your SUNet ID (not Click OK to close the Account Settings dialog box.Should you setup Gmail as POP3 or IMAP? With POP3, you cannot create or manage email folders on the server. Select the entry for your - and click Edit. In the left pane of the Account Settings dialog box, click Outgoing Server (SMTP). This will fail and a message saying "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account" will display. Thunderbird will attempt to automatically configure your account settings. Enter your name as you want it to appear in the From field in outgoing mail and your email address. At the bottom of the left pane of the Account Settings dialog box, click Account Actions and then click Add Mail Account. Otherwise, click the hamburger menu in the upper-right and go to Options > Accounts Settings. If you've not used Thunderbird before, the Mail Account Setup Wizard should start on its own. Enable IMAP in your Stanford Google Mail account and save your changes.Ĭonfiguring Thunderbird for use with G Suite (formerly Google Apps). If you haven't already done so, do the following before setting up Thunderbird for use with your Stanford Google Mail account. Follow the instructions on the site for installing Thunderbird. You can get a free download of Thunderbird from the Mozilla website.
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