How To Set Up Thunderbird for EES Email

by Ed Munsell

1. Launch Thunderbird.
2. Click "Tools" in the men bar and go to "Account Settings".
3. Click "Add Account" in the bottom left portion of the window.
4. In the new window make sure "Email Account" is selected and click continue.
5. In the new window type your name for "Your Name:".
6. In "Email Address" type <username>@bedrock.nmt.edu where <username> is your actual user name.
• Note When the mail server goes into production this will need to be changed to <username>@ees.nmt.edu.
7. Click Continue
8. In the next window select "IMAP" for your type of incomming server.
9. For "Incoming Server:" type bedrock.nmt.edu.
10. Click "Continue".
11. Change "Incoming User Name:" to your user name.
12. Click continue.
13. Next change "Account Name:" to Bedrock.
14. Click Continue.
15. Click Done.
16. When the Wizard completes it should put you back at the "Add Account" screen.
17. On the lefthand side of the window you should see "Bedrock" with a triangel to the left of it. if the triangle is pointing towards "Bedrock" click it to expand the menu.
18. Under "Bedrock" select "Server Settings".
19. Then on the right hand side under "Security Settings" select "SSL".
20. On the lefthand part of the screen towards the bottom you should see "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" click on that.
21. On on the right part of the screen click "Add".
22. A new window will pop up.
23. For "Description:" type "Bedrock".
24. For "Server Name" type bedrock.nmt.edu.
25. Make user "Use name and password is checked".
26. For "User Name:" enter your user name.
27. Then under "Use secure connection:" click on "SSL".
28. Click "OK".
29. Click "OK" again.

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