Archive for January 8th, 2010

Setup email for thunderbird in Windows

  1. You can download the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird from this page:
    http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird
    After the download completes, double click on the executable. It will start the install process. If a window appears asking you if you want to run the program, click “run”.
  2. You will see the intro screen to the installation proccess like so: simply click “next”

    Installation intro screen

    Installation intro screen

  3. Select Standard Install on the next screen and press next.install_2
  4. Verify installation Location and click nextinstall_3
  5. Installation will proceed, make sure the “Launch Thunderbird” checkbox is checked and click finish to proceed.
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  7. Now that the installation is complete, we can configure the email settings in the application. When thunderbird first starts up, you see this screen:config_1as you can see, I filled in my name, my email address and my password. press continue. Thunderbird will try and autodetect settings for you but we have to specify more information yet. Click continue.config_2

Click Stop on this screen. We want to correct the information as follows. Click the Manual Setup button.

username is your supplied username for the system.

incoming: mailserver.morronimail.com , port 143, SSL/TLS

outgoing: smtpserver.morronimail.com, port 587, None

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and the SMTP settings (which can be reached by clicking on outgoing smtp server on the left pane and then pressing “edit” or “add” if there is no selection

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when you’re done with all the settings press ok and send yourself a test email. If you are prompted for your account password, enter it and select the box to remember the password. You’re set!

 

Setup IMAP E-mail on Apple Mail

This short tutorial covers adding an e-mail account to Apple’s Mail Application.  It includes specific information for Morroni technologies servers.

Goto Applications->Mail

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Once Apple mail is open, goto the file menu item Mail->Preferences

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Once inside Preferences, click on the Account tab at the top and fill in your user information.  Click the + bottom in the bottom left of the screen.

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This will bring up the new mail account wizard where you should insert your provided information.

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Click Continue and you will be at step 2.  Choose IMAP for Account Type.  Enter a description of your choice.  For incoming mail server use mailserver.morroni.com.  Enter the user name and password provided to you.

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Click continue.  make sure to click Connect when you get the verify dialogue box (seen below).

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The next screen sets up the outgoing mailserver.  Use your provided login information and enter the fields as they are below.

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Click Continue and again make sure to accept the verification of the security certificate.

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Verify the information and click Create.

You are now done, enjoy your new setup!