Preconditions
- ZIV user id (you can get a user ID at the ZIV Mein ZIV)
- central user password
- Mozilla Thunderbird 6 (it is reommended to use the latest version, get Thunderbird 6 here)
Introduction
Generally there are two ways of checking emails. POP3 downloads your emails from the email server of the university to your computer. IMAP leaves the emails on the server and you can only check them locally. If you only use one PC to check your emails, the best option is to choose POP3. If you have several computers to check your emails, choose IMAP. Please note that with IMAP an Internet connection is always necessary when you want to check your emails.
Configuration of Thunderbird 6.0
Step 1 : Start Thunderbird and set up a new email account. This is done by choosing the item
account settings in the menu
Tools (see image 1).
image 1
Step 2 : In the following menu dialog choose
account actions and then
Add Mail Account, because you want to set up a new email account (see image 2).
image 2
Step 3 : Fill in the form as shown in image 3:
- Your name: Your Name
- Email address: userid@uni-muenster.de
- Password: central user password
- activate Remember password
Then click
continue and then directly click
Manual config on the left side of the window (image 4).
image 3
image 4
Step 4 :
If you want to use
POP3 look at image 5 and fill in the form. For
IMAP account settings look at image 6.
Email address should be the same you entered in the step before. The
username at the bottom of the window must be your
user id.
Don't forget to set up the
outgoing mail server, which is in both cases the same.
Step 5 : Click
create account. That's it.
image 5
image 6
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ChrisF - 2011-08-19
Topic revision: r1 - 2011-08-23
- ChrisF