Thunderbird Multiple Email Accounts

MOZILLIA THUNDERBIRD

ADDING and CONFIGURING Multiple Accounts

1. Add New Email Addresses
2. Creating Separate Inboxes for Multiple Email Addresses
   
3. Creating a SENT folder

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1) ADD A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS to your Thunderbird Account:

FOR A GMAIL EMAIL ADDRESS:

• Open Thunderbird
• Go to: File -> New -> Account
• Select “Gmail” - Click Next
• In the Your Name field: enter your name.
  
• In the Email Address (@gmail) field: enter your gmail address
  
• Click Save
• Enter the password for you gmail account if requested. Check the “remember password” if you don’t want to be asked for it again.

FOR AN ISP EMAIL ADDRESS

• Open Thunderbird
• Go to: File -> New -> Account
• Select “Email account” - Click Next
• In the Your Name field: enter your name.
  
• In the Email Address field: enter your full email address
• In the Incoming Server field: enter whatever you ISP incoming server is – normally it’s just replacing everything before and including the @ of your email with mail. (eg. joe@bigpond.com would be mail.bigpond.com or joe@adam.com.au would be mail.adam.com.au)
• OPTIONAL: UNCHECK “Use Global Inbox – store mail in local folders” If you want to create multiple accounts with separate Inboxes
• Click Next
  
• Enter an Incoming username – click Next.
  
• Enter an Account Name - Click Next
• Click “FINISH”.
  
• Enter your password if requested and check the “remember password” if you don’t want to be asked for it again.

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2) CREATING SEPARATE INBOXES FOR MUTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES IN THUNDERBIRD.

If you are receiving mail in the same inbox for multiple email accounts already created, you can separate them so they have their own inbox, outbox etc.

• Tools -> Account Settings
• In the left panel you will see the email accounts you have set up. Find the account name you want to give it’s own inbox.
• Select the “Server Settings” option below it.
• In Server Settings click on “Advanced”
• In the Advanced Account Settings Window that opens, change the option from “Global Inbox” to “Inbox for this server’s account”
• Click “OK” Click “OK” again.
• A new inbox will appear under All Folders for that account.
  

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3) Creating a SENT folder:

• Right click on the account name (under ALL FOLDERS) that you want to create a Sent Folder for.
• Click “NEW FOLDER”
• Name it “Sent”
• Click “OK

(Follow the same method above for a “Drafts” folder – just name the folder Drafts instead of Sent)

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