Linux uses Thunderbird to send and receive Hotmail and Gmail__linux

Windows use Foxmail is easy to set up Hotmail and Gmail, go to Linux, found that evolution is not very good, the message encoding can not be set, GBK encoded message theme display garbled, had to replace Thunderbird.

Thunderbird itself does not support Hotmail this kind of webmail send and receive, need to download Plug-ins webmail and Hotmail, need to receive Yahoo, there are corresponding plug-ins, to download here.

Hotmail Setup Method:

After downloading, open Thunderbird, select Tools-> add-on software, and install Plug-ins

Restart the Thunderbird, and then set the following (original address)

Restart TB and look at your extended list:



View the preferences for WebMail this extension:



You can see that both pop and SMTP are enabled in the image above. The IMAP feature of this plugin is available but not perfect, so I didn't turn on the service. Enabling and closing services can be adjusted in the "Enable" tab in the previous illustration. In addition, Linux users may need to change the default port configuration, because many Linux distributions by default to 1024 of the following ports are blocked. If you find that you are unable to connect to the server when you receive/send the message, change the port number to 1024 in the Port tab:



And then take a look at our webmail-hotmail this extension's preferences. If you use the Windows Live Custom Domains Mailbox, please add your domain here, such as the home network mailbox I use: jaya.cn.



The other is "account" here:



This label will be changed after you set up your mail account. If you have more than one Hotmail account, you can make different settings for each account. Here I use the Hotmail website (product). If your Hotmail mailbox is a traditional Hotmail interface please select the Hotmail site (product), if you have upgraded to 2G Windows Live Mail, select the Hotmail site (BETA).

Another feature that needs to be perfected is that whether or not you select "Save a backup in sent Messages" in the SMTP tab, you will actually be stored in Sent items on the server after you send the message through SMTP. However, when you log on from the Web and you click on this email, the server does not recognize that this is the message that has been sent. It feels like it's going straight into the draft state, and the message header becomes a bunch of code.

Note: Two extended preferences If any changes are made, restart TB to apply the settings.

The following is the addition of an email account in TB, and the steps are basically the same as the regular POP/SMTP mail account. The areas to be noted are:

* Your POP and SMTP servers are localhost.
* Your username is your full email address, such as: zhangsan@hotmail.com or admin@jaya.cn ...
* SMTP requires Setup validation
* If you modify the port settings in the WebMail plug-in, do not forget to change the same port in the mail account.


OK, wordy to this ending. One thing I didn't think of was this: even if you send a message through TB, it will be advertised by Microsoft on the tail ...

Gmail's setup

1. Turn on pop functionality in your Gmail account.
2. Open Thunderbird and select "Tools-> account Settings" in the menu bar.
3. Select "E-mail Account" and click "Next".
4. Fill in your name in the "Your Name" column, fill in your Gmail address in the "E-mail Address" (for example: username@gmail.com), and click "Next".
5. "Receive Server Type" Select Pop, "Receive server fill in" Pop.gmail.com, then click Next.
6. Fill in your Gmail username (including "@gmail. com") in the "username". Then click "Next".
7. Fill in the account name and click Next.
8. Point "Finish".
9. In this new account, select server settings (left).
10. Select "Use Secure link" and port number to fill "995".
11. Select Mail Send server (left).
12. "The server name" fills in "smtp.gmail.com", the port fills in "587".
13. Select "Use username and password" and fill in your Gmail username (including "@gmail. com").
14. In the use of the security link bar below, select TLS. Then click OK.