How to Set Up an IMSA Thunderbird Email Account
Mozilla Thunderbird is the standard email client used at IMSA and is installed on all IMSA staff computers.
It is sometimes desirable to have Thunderbird configured on another computer in addition to an IMSA-owned computer.
This tutorial explains how to configure Mozilla Thunderbird to work properly with the IMSA email system.
This tutorial shows how to configure Thunderbird using Microsoft Windows. The Mac OS X version is similar enough that you can use this tutorial for it as well.
If you have not downloaded Thunderbird already, do a Google search for "download Mozilla Thunderbird" to find links to the most recent download of the software.
The tutorial starts off at the point at which you have downloaded, installed, and started Thunderbird.
Select the Tools menu
Select the 'Account Settings..." command.
Click the Account Actions button
Select "Add Mail Account"
The Mail Account Setup dialog opens. Select the ‘Your name’ text box
Enter your name as you would like it to show to others who receive your emails. Select the Email address text box
Enter your IMSA email address. Select the Password text box
Select the Remember password check box. Only have a check mark in the 'Remember password' field if you are the only user of the computer.
Click the Continue button
Select the Incoming text box, then change the text to read 'staff.imsa.edu'
Select the down arrow
Enter '143' in the field to the right of the IMAP field.
The Outgoing field should read, "mail.imsa.edu".
"SMTP" should appear to the right of 'mail.imsa.edu"
In the field to the right of 'SMTP', replace the value with '587'
Click the ‘Re-test Configuration’ button
Your settings should now look like this:
Click the Create Account button
The next activity involves pointing Thunderbird at IMSA's LDAP directory. Pointing at this directory will make it possible to begin typing a name in the To: field of an email and have Thunderbird suggest IMSA email addresses to use.’
In the Account Settings dialog that opens, select 'Composition & Addressing'
Select the ‘Use a different LDAP server’ radio button
Click the Edit Directories… button
Click the Add button
In the name field, type 'IMSA"
Select the Hostname text box, then type, 'ldap.imsa.edu'.
Select the Base DN text box, then type, "OU=People,dc=imsa,dc=edu"
Click the OK button
Click the OK button
Select the Use a different LDAP server drop down arrow
Select 'IMSA'
Click the OK button
In the folders window, select the item that has your IMSA email address
Select the Read messages link
Type your IMSA email password, then press the Enter key or click the OK button.
After you successfully log in, the folders in your IMSA email account will appear in the folders window.
In this tutorial, you learned how to configure Mozilla Thunderbird to work with the IMSA email system.
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