Thunderbird Configuration Howto

To follow these instructions, you will need to download Mozilla Thunderbird here and install it.

Then follow the instructions below.

Open Thunderbird, select Account Settings and click on Add Account.

Fill in the desired values for Full Name (the name you want to be displayed on all the emails you send out) and Email Address.

Make sure that the options in the configuration screen match with those in the screenshot below:

• The IMAP option should be checked.
• In the Incoming Server field, the server should be mail.inventati.org and the port should be either 993 for SSL/TLS or 143 for STARTTLS.
• In the Outgoing server field, the server should be smtp.inventati.org and the port should be either 465 for SSL/TLS or 587 for STARTTLS.
• The username should be your email address.

If everything is correct, click Done, otherwise edit the incorrect data and click “Re-test”.

The following screen should contain correct data - in that case, you can click Done to complete your account setup.

Enter your password.

Go to: Account Settings -> Synchronization & Storage and check the Message Synchronizing section to make sure that the option “Keep messages in all folders for this account on this computer” is checked. If it isn’t, check it.

Once you’re done, the client will download all messages in your mailbox to your device.

With IMAP your mailbox lives in the server — thus keeping it safe and making it accessible from any device —, and Thunderbird stores a copy of every message also on your computer: messages are thus stored in both places, on the server and locally. New messages are duplicated automatically and every folder in the server (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk and any other custom folder you may have created) is mirrored in the folder pane on the left, so your whole mailbox is available on your computer even when your device is offline.

When you are offline (or if the server is unreachable), Thunderbird simply uses the saved copies: you can read all your messages, and anything you write is queued and sent as soon as you are online again (you can see if you are connected or not by looking at the ((°)) icon in the bottom left corner of the window where you read your email).

To refresh a folder at any time, select it and press Shift+F5.

If a folder you created in the server is missing in the local copy, right-click your address in the window where you read your email and select Subscribe. In the following creen, check all the folders you would like to download to your local device.

Finally, also remember to synchronize your sent messages: go to Account Settings and select Copies & Folders in the left-hand menu. In the option When sending messages, automatically -> Place a copy in:, select Other and choose a Local folder (not on the server) to save a copy of your sent mail in the folder you’ve selected.