Thunderbird Instructions (PC)
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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 Thunderbird
1. Go to the Thunderbird website and click on Download Thunderbird link in the green box.
Note: If you're using Internet Explorer the following information bar might come up.
If it does, click on it. On the small menu that appears, click Download File....
2. Depending on your browser, the option to either Run or Open With should be available. Click on the Run button or the OK button and the following window will appear showing the progress of your download.
If you're using Internet Explorer, after the progress window above finishes, the window below might appear. If so, click on Run.
Note: If neither of the above options are available and either Save or Save to Disk are, choose these options and click on the Save In drop down box and choose click on Desktop, as shown in the screenshot below.
The following icon will be on your desktop. Just double click and the progress bar window above will appear.
Installing Thunderbird
3. A few dialog boxes will appear while the program is extracting files then the setup window will appear. Click Next.
4. Click the I Accept the terms of the License Agreement radio button, then click Next.
5. Click the Standard radio button, then click Next.
6. Click Next.
7. Thunderbird will go through a few windows while it installs, like the one shown below.
8. Leave the Launch Mozilla Thunderbird now checkbox checked, and click Finish.
9. 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 Next.
Note: 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 Next.
Setting up Thunderbird to access your MCC Email
10. Thunderbird will then run and the Account Wizard will start. Leave the Email account radio button selected and click Next.
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 Next.
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 Next.
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 Next.
17. In the Account Name: field, type MCC Email, then click Next.
18. On the Congratulations! window, click on Finish.
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 Account Wizard will come up as before, so leave the default Email account radio button selected and click Next.
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 Next.
30. Click the IMAP radio button to select it.
31. In the Incoming Server: field, type email3.dist.maricopa.edu, then click Next.
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 Next.
33. In the Account Name: field, type in District MEMO, then click Next.
34. On the Congratulations! window, click on Finish.
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 Tools, 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 Mesa 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 Tools on the menu bar, then click Options....
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.
