Thunderbird Instructions (Macintosh)
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Thunderbird is a email client by Mozilla. To download and configure Thunderbird to access your MCC email please follow the steps below.
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Downloading and Installing Thunderbird
1. Go to the Thunderbird website and click on Free Download link in the green box.
2. If you're using Safari, the downloads window will usually appear, showing the progress of Thunderbird being downloaded.
Note: while being downloaded there will be an icon labeled similar to the following, depending on Thunderbird's current version, Thunderbird 1.5.0.8.dmg.download
3. After the download has finishes the following window will appear. Click Continue.
4. A license agreement will come up next, just click Accept.
5. The icon from Step 2 will then change to the following icons:
6. The mounted drive for Thunderbird (the top icon in the screenshot above) will open and be shown in a window, as in the screenshot below, and the Thunderbird program can now be run. Note: It's advised that you drag the Thunderbird icon in this window to either your Desktop or Macintosh HD. As the mounted drive will disappear after each restart and if you haven't dragged the Thunderbird icon to anywhere else, you'll have to double click the "Thunderbird 1.5.0.8.dmg" icon every time and then double click on the Thunderbird icon each time to run it.
7. If you're downloading from Firefox or SeaMonkey yer likely to get this download window, so make sure that the Save to Disk radio button is selected and click OK.
8. The download progress window will appear, as well as some icons on your desktop.
9. After the download is done, you'll be left with the icons below:
10. The mounted drive for Thunderbird (the top icon in the screenshot above) will open and be shown in a window, as in the screenshot below, and the Thunderbird program can now be run. Note: It's advised that you drag the Thunderbird icon in this window to either your Desktop or Macintosh HD. As the mounted drive will disappear after each restart and if you haven't dragged the Thunderbird icon to anywhere else, you'll have to double click the "Thunderbird 1.5.0.8.dmg" icon every time and then double click on the Thunderbird icon each time to run it.
Setting up Thunderbird to access your MCC Email
Thunderbird will then open and the following dialog box will appear. This Import Wizard is designed so if you have any of the listed programs already installed on your machine and have your email configured and working you can select the radio button of the email program and Thunderbird will import the settings from that program to Thunderbird. Most reading this guide will not have the other email programs configured yet, so leave the Don't import anything radio button selected , and click Continue. If you are already have your MCC email configured through one of the other programs and just need to import your settings, click the radio button of the email program that has your MCC settings, and click Continue.
10. Thunderbird will then run and the New Account Setup will start. Leave the Email account radio button selected and click Continue.
11. In the Your Name: field, type your name as how you want you name to appear on emails you send.
12. In the Email Address: field, type your MCC email address, and click Continue.
13. Click the IMAP radio button to select it.
14. In the Incoming Server: field, type imaps.mc.maricopa.edu.
15. In the Outgoing Server: field, type smtps.mc.maricopa.edu, and click Continue.
16. On the User Names window your MCC username should already be filled in for both the Incoming Username: and Outgoing User Name: fields. If not, please type it in for both. In either case, after your username is in both fields, click Continue.
17. In the Account Name: field, type MCC Email, then click Continue.
18. On the Congratulations! window, click on Done.
19. Thunderbird will then open and the following dialog box will appear. Setting Thunderbird to your default email client, Thunderbird will be the email client that comes up automatically when you click on an email address link, is up to you. If you have another email client, such as Mac Mail, that you like to use to read and send email with, click No. If it doesn't matter which email client is your default, click Yes. If you aren't sure it's safest to click No, until you're sure you don't mind clicking Yes.
19. The email settings at this point aren't completely correct so you should receive the following error. Just click OK.
20. Now you should be back at the main Thunderbird screen. There's still a few changes to the email settings that need to be made. On the menu bar, click on Tools, and then click on Account Settings....
21. Under MCC Email, click on Server Settings.
22. On the right hand side, in the Security Settings section, for the Use secure connection: field, click the SSL radio button. The number for the Port: field above will change to 993, as shown below.
23. Back on the left hand side listing, click on Outgoing Server (SMTP), then click Edit... on the right.
24. In the Description field, type mcc.
25. In the Security and Authentication section, for the Use secure connection: field, click the SSL radio button, then click OK.
Setting up Thunderbird to access your District MEMO Email (for Employees)
For MCC Employees with a District MEMO Email account, here are the steps to add your MEMO account and access it in Thunderbird. If you've followed these instructions this far please continue following the steps for where the previous section left off. If not, to get to the same point, run Thunderbird. Click Tools on the menu bar, the click Account Settings....
26. In the Account Settings window, click the Add Account button.
27. The New Account Setup will come up as before, so leave the default Email account radio button selected and click Continue.
28. In the Your Name: field, type your name as how you want you name to appear on emails you send.
29. In the Email Address: field, type your District MEMO email address, and click Continue.
30. Click the IMAP radio button to select it.
31. In the Incoming Server: field, type email3.dist.maricopa.edu, then click Continue.
32. On the User Names window, part of your District MEMO Username should be filled in. Your District MEMO Username is always your whole District MEMO Email address, not just the firstname.lastname part. So make sure your entire District MEMO Email address is typed in the field, then click Continue.
33. In the Account Name: field, type in District MEMO, then click Continue.
34. On the Congratulations! window, click on Done.
35. Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) on the listing on the left, then click the Add button to the right.
36. In the Description: field, type district
37. In the Server Name: field, type mcmail.maricopa.edu.
38. Leave the Use name and password checkbox checked, in the User Name: field, type in your District MEMO email address, then click OK.
39. Back in Account Settings window, click on Server Settings under District MEMO on the listing on the left.
40. On the right hand side, in the Secure Settings section. Under the Use secure connection field, click the SSL radio option. The port number above will change to 993.
41. Click on District MEMO on the listing on the left, then click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) drop down box on the right.
42. Click on district - mcmail.maricopa.edu to select it.
(Optional) Setting up MCC and District MEMO Email Directories
This section is here to provide instructions to set up the MCC and District LDAP Directories for those who want to be able to search for email addresses either directly or while composing an email. This is not required to be able to receive or send email so if you do not want this ability you can skip this section.
43. On the menu bar, click Window, then click Address Book.
44. On the menu bar, click File, then point to New, then click on LDAP Directory....
45. For the Name: field, type MCC Directory.
46. For the Hostname: field, type ldap.mc.maricopa.edu.
47. For the Base DN: field, type o=Mesa Community College,c=us.
48. Click OK.
49. On the menu bar, click File, then point to New, then click on LDAP Directory....
50. For the Name: field, type District Directory.
51. For the Hostname: field, type mcldap.maricopa.edu.
52. For the Base DN: field, type c=us.
53. Click OK.
54. Back in the Address Book, click Thunderbird on the menu bar, then click Preferences....
55. Click the Composition icon, then click the Addressing tab.
56. In the Address Autocompletion section, click on the Directory Server checkbox. When composing emails and typing in names in the To: and related fields, Thunderbird will first search your Personal Address Book, then only the directory selected in the drop down box. For example, in the screenshot below, only the District Directory will get searched, the MCC Directory won't. Note: This obviously does restrict what types of email address you can search from without going into the Preferences and changing the Directory searched. One thing to note, while the Automatically add outgoing email addresses to my: checkbox is checked, any email addresses that you send out to will be added to your address book and will be searched for when you compose an email.
An alternative to this is set the directories for each account. The same limitation still applies, you can only choose one directory, so only your Address Book and directory will get searched, but it does allow one to, for example, search only for MCC email addresses while sending email from a MCC email account and for District email addresses while sending email from a District MEMO email account.
57. On the menu bar, click Tools, then click Account Settings...
58. Under MCC Email, click on Composition & Addressing.
59. One the right hand side, under the Addressing section, for the heading When looking up addresses:, select the Use a different LDAP server: and click on the drop down and choose the directory you'd like to search while sending from your MCC email account.
60. Under District MEMO, click on Composition & Addressing.
61. One the right hand side, under the Addressing section, for the heading When looking up addresses:, select the Use a different LDAP server: and click on the drop down and choose the directory you'd like to search while sending from your District MEMO email account.
