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Title: setting up thunderbird
Post by: hairyhippy on 28 May, 2008, 06:39:51 pm

to collect mail from gmail, hotmail and outlook. I'm struggling. Can anyone help?

Title: Re: setting up thunderbird
Post by: woollypigs on 28 May, 2008, 06:46:11 pm

I got thunderbird running with IMAP on gmail, hotmail with "webmail" never tried it to sync with outlook though.

EDIT:

WebMail (http://webmail.mozdev.org/)

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725

Geek To Live: Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client (http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/turn-thunderbird-into-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php)

Title: Re: setting up thunderbird
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 28 May, 2008, 06:49:50 pm

I have it running with Gmail and I've used it with others in the past (not Outlook though). I seem to recall it was straightforward enough, and Gmail and Thunderbird FAQs cover it well.

What specifically is the difficulty?

Title: Re: setting up thunderbird
Post by: border-rider on 28 May, 2008, 07:08:13 pm

I use it with Gmail using POP3 and SMTP

I recall having real difficulties trying to set it up manually using the instructions from Google, but when I set up a new account in T-Bird it seemed to sort out all the settings itself and just worked.

Title: Re: setting up thunderbird
Post by: fred the great on 29 May, 2008, 08:47:20 am

Off topic slightly but I just run Gmail through Firefox which is simple :P