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Installing Thunderbird for Isle of Harris email |
Thunderbird offers excellent spam filtration and security against phising email scams, has a wide array of add-ons such as integrated UK English spell checker, calendar and taks organiser through Mozilla lightening.
- Downloading Thunderbird Email Client
- Installing Thunderbird
- Configuring Thunderbird for your Isle of Harris email address
- Configuring
outgoing email server for sending mail
- Configuring email message filters.
- Configure spam settings
- Installing useful add-ons to Thunderbird.
Downloading Thunderbird Email Client
1) Download thunderbird from www.getthunderbird.com
2) If you're using Internet Explorer you will see the following 2 windows pop up. Click Save to save the file or if you like click run to automatically run the Thunderbird installed after its downloaded.
3) If you selected Save then you'll be asked to pick a folder to save the Thunderbird installer to. Click desktop and then save to save the installer to your desktop
Installing Thunderbird Email Client
1) If you've saved the installer to desktop then double click on the icon to start the installation and perform the following actions.
2) Click Next button
6) click "I accept the Licence Agreement" and click "Next" button
3) Select "Standard" and click "Next" button
4) Wait for install process to finish
5) When Thunderbird has finished installing select "Launch Mozilla Thunderbird" and click the "Finish" button
6) When the thunderbird application opens for the first time it will offer you the opportunity to import your current mail account settings from Outlook Express etc. For the moment click "Don't import anything".
Configuring Thunderbird for Isle of Harris email
1) Select "Email account" and click "Next" button
2) When you send a email there are 2 components to what your friends see when they receive that email from you. First is your name that will appear in their inbox and secondly the email address behind the name that will be used when they reply to the email you sent. This section configures both of these, enter your name into the 1st text box and enter your @isle-of-harris.com email address into the 2nd. Note: It is very important that you get your email address correct, if you make a typing mistake here then when your friends reply to any email you send then it will be sent to the email address with the typing error, so take care to ensure you enter your Isle of Harris email address correctly.
3) There are 2 different ways to connect to your Isle of Harris email, the above screenshot shows you selecting IMAP as your incoming server. The key setting here is mail.isle-of-harris.com as the incoming mail server, the server type can be either POP or IMAP.
If you generally only ever access your email from home then use POP as your incoming email server type. POP is basically designed to upload your messages from the server, and store them on your computer in your email client, the messages are then deleted from the server. IMAP is a more advanced type of emal server, with IMAP your emails stay on the server and you therefore have a permanent copy of your emails, so if you are away from your home pc you will still be able to access them via webmail or thunderbird/outlook. What's clever about IMAP is that essentially the folder structure of your inbox will be mirrored on the server, so for example if you were to create a Friends folder and move emails from your friends into it then this would be mirrored on the server. The advantage of this is that when you're away from home you can log into webmail or re-install thunderbird and all your emails will be organised the exact way you have them at home. Think about which one best suits your needs, with POP you can still access your emails from work via webmail and use Thunderbird when your home to organise them neatly, IMAP is better suited to those who use their email for both home and business and from a foreign location need total access to every email they've received. The disadvantage of IMAP is that there is currently a quota limit on the size of your inbox on the server and when the quota is reached you will need to delete emails to free up space. If in doubt select POP.
4) Next step is to tell thunderbird which username you use to log into the server to download your emails (the first time you login thunderbird will as you for your password and remember it). This is your full primary isle-of-harris.com email address. Most people will have a single user login like joe@isle-of-harris.com but this can be aliased for some people as joe.bloggs@isle-of-harris.com. With aliasing both email addresses are valid but get delivered to the inbox of the primary email address, therefore the primary email address is the only one that is valid for Incoming User Name.
5) Here you give thunderbird an appropriate name for the new email account, we suggest you give the account the name "Isle of Harris"
6) You've now configured thunderbird for your Isle of Harris email account, click the "Finish" button to complete
Configuring your SMTP server for sending email
Isle of Harris email server does not currently allow you to use it for sending emails, it is purely there to store emails sent to you and deliver them to you. Everybody will be online via an ISP like bt, tiscali, wanadoo, sky, talk-talk, demon, zen, connected communities etc etc, every ISP has their own outgoing mail server for their customers and you must configure thunderbird to use your ISP's outgoing mail server.
1) In thunderbird go to the Tools menu and select Account Settings and the above dialog box will pop up.
Click on "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" to select the options for outgoing mail server and then click the "Add" button to add your ISP's outgoing mail server
2) In the "Description" text box enter a descriptive name for your ISP's mail server, e.g. if you're a BT broadband customer enter "Bt Mailserver", if your a Hebrides.net customer enter "Hebrides.Net mail server" etc etc
The really important section here is "Server Name" this is the internet name of your ISP's mail server. The following table is a list of common ISPs and the name of their outgoing mail server, if your ISP is in this list then enter their server name here. If your ISP isn't in this list then go to their web site and do a search for "mail server settings"
The default port should be 25 and for most people the "Security and Authentication" section can be left with its default values. Some ISPs require a username and password to send mail but this is quite rare if you are a broadband or dialup customer of theirs.
| ISP | Server Name |
| Hebrides.Net | mail.hebrides.net |
| BT Yahoo | mail.btinternet.com |
| Tiscali | smtp.tiscali.co.uk |
| Wanadoo | smtp.wanadoo.co.uk |
| Sky | smtp.tools.sky.com |
| Zen | mailhost.zen.co.uk |
| Madasafish | smtp.madasafish.com |
| Pipex | smtp.dial.pipex.com |
| Demon | post.demon.co.uk |
More Isle of Harris Thunderbird Tutorials
- Configuring email message filters.
- Configure spam settings
- Installing dictionary and other useful add-ons to Thunderbird.