gHacks technology news » smtp http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 SMTP Server Selector For Thunderbird http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/27/smtp-server-selector-for-thunderbird/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/27/smtp-server-selector-for-thunderbird/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:29:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10170 If you ever needed to select a different SMTP server while sending mails in Thunderbird you can now by installing the Send Via add-on for Thunderbird. The add-on can come in handy if the main SMTP server is not accessible at the moment or having accessibility or connection problems.

The Thunderbird add-on is available for all versions of Thunderbird 2. It is currently available as a experimental add-on at the Mozilla website from where it has to be downloaded before it can be installed in Thunderbird.

The add-on will add a drop down menu to the Send button in the Thunderbird email client which will list the available SMTP servers and an option to add a new SMTP server to use it to send the emails.

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Selecting any of the available SMTP servers will send the message by connecting to the specified server.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/27/smtp-server-selector-for-thunderbird/feed/ 1 How To Setup Gmail In External Mail Clients Properly http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/01/how-to-setup-gmail-in-external-mail-clients-properly/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/01/how-to-setup-gmail-in-external-mail-clients-properly/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:47:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7981 Everton from Connected Internet send me an initiation to a new Google Apps account for our news site Windows 7 News. It basically was there to be able to access a mail account for the domain. It was not a huge problem to set it up and I was able to access the account online. What I really wanted though was to set it up in my mail client Thunderbird as well to be able to send and receive mails for that email address.

I had some troubles in the past setting up POP3 and SMTP access for Gmail and a quick check on the Internet revealed that many users had similar difficulties. It actually took me 20 minutes to setup the new account in the email client Thunderbird correctly so that it would receive and send emails using Gmail’s servers.

While the following guide will visualize the settings in Thunderbird it can easily be adopted for other mail clients. The important parts are the server settings and not the menus.

POP3 access has to be enabled in the Gmail interface before anyone can even think of adding a Gmail account to a software email client. This is done by logging into the web interface of Gmail and clicking on the Settings link in the upper right corner next to the email address.

A menu with multiple tabs will open. Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab. Checking the Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded) entry and clicking on Save Settings will enable POP3 access for the Gmail account. If that would not be done the server would simply refuse the connection.

Everthing is set in Gmail, now it is time to setup the email client. Here are the general parameters:

Incoming server: pop3.gmail.com
Port: 995
User name: full email address
Secure Connection: SSL

Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Secure Connection: TLS
User name: full email address

The main culprit are the port numbers and the secure connection settings. If you have any questions or difficulties setting this up let us know. It would also be nice to hear if other email clients use different names for the settings.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/01/how-to-setup-gmail-in-external-mail-clients-properly/feed/ 7 Check Webmail with Mozilla Thunderbird http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/20/check-webmail-with-mozilla-thunderbird/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/20/check-webmail-with-mozilla-thunderbird/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:58:59 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/20/check-webmail-with-mozilla-thunderbird/ I received an email after publishing the article about YPOPS that made it possible with all email clients to retrieve and send Yahoo Mail emails. If you are a Thunderbird user you might find the Webmail extension for Thunderbird a better choice. It adds support for more than just one webmailer. You get support for Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com, Aol and Libero. By default the webmail extension and at least one additional component has to be installed to add webmailer support.

A component is a plugin for one of the mentioned email services which means that if you use AOL and Yahoo Mail you would download and install those two. The main advantage of webmail is that you can configure all settings in Thunderbird without having to run an external software that listens on the mail port.

Setup involves three steps. First you make sure that webmail is up and running. You do that by opening the options of webmail. It should display a graphic that looks similar to the one below.

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If everything is up and running select domains from the tab bar and make sure that the webmail providers that you use are in the list. If that is the case exit the options.It’s time to create a new account to retrieve and check email from those webmail accounts.

POP3:

Server Type : POP
Incoming Server : localhost
username: your email address which has to include the domain, e.g. @yahoo.com

SMTP:

Server Name : localhost
User Name : your email address which has to include the domain, e.g. @yahoo.com

Check out the setup guide if you are unsure about this, it explains every step with pictures. My thanks to Si Howard for pointing this out. Another option would be Freepops that I wrote about as well.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/20/check-webmail-with-mozilla-thunderbird/feed/ 1 How to get mail from all thunderbird accounts at once http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/05/how-to-get-mail-from-all-thunderbird-accounts-at-once/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/05/how-to-get-mail-from-all-thunderbird-accounts-at-once/#comments Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:27:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/05/how-to-get-mail-from-all-thunderbird-accounts-at-once/ The email client Thunderbird does not necessarily retrieve messages from all of your mail accounts at startup. By default the first mail account will be checked on startup and all mail accounts will be checked every ten minutes. The following user.js tweak changes this behavior in the way that Thunderbird retrieves mail from all accounts at startup as well.

All you need to do is locate the file user.js which should be in your profiles folder. The user.js file does not exist by default and you might need to create it my right-clicking and choosing new, text document and naming it user.js. Once this is done you are ready to add the following lines of code to it.

user_pref(”mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, true);
user_pref(”mail.check_all_pop_folders_for_new”, true);

Once this is done restart thunderbird and mail from all accounts should be automatically received.

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