Setting up your Thunderbird email account
 

The following are instructions on how to configure Mozilla's Thunderbird with your sdgeocachers.org email account:

1. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird
2. Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
3. From the Tools menu, choose Account Settings (see Figure 1).
4. Select Add Account.
5. Click on the Next button.
6. Enter your name (or your geocaching name)
7. In the E-mail address field, enter your full sdgeocachers email address
   (ex: m2@sdgeocachers.org) (see Figure 2)
8. Select POP as the type of incoming server.
9. In the Incoming Server field, enter sdgeocachers.org (see Figure 3).
10. In the Incoming User Name field, enter the first part of your email.
     (ex: joedoe) (see Figure 4)
11. In the Account Name field, enter whatever name you want to use to refer to this account (ex: Geocaching Email Account, M2, etc).
12. Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP)
13. In the Server Name field, put in sdgeocachers.org (see note below)
14. In the User Name field, put in the first part of your email address. (ex: joedoe) (see Figure 5)
    

=======Finishing the Setup of Your E-mail=========

Before you start to use your new e-mail account, complete the following steps:

1. Before you try to send mail from your account, check for new mail in your mailbox. If you try to send mail before you have checked for new mail, an error will come up when you try to send the message. This step is only necessary after you have set up your e-mail account for the first time OR if you have changed internet connections.

2. Set up your e-mail program to delete e-mail from the server after you have downloaded it to your computer. You do not want to leave the e-mail on the mail server because if you do, your e-mail box will overfill on the server and cause your mailbox to work improperly.

===================== Note for Step 13 ================

Some ISPs require that all outgoing mail pass through their own servers. To accomodate this policy, enter the name of your ISP's outgoing mailserver in Step 13. For example, Cox High Speed Internet users in California should enter "smtp.west.cox.net". The use of Cox's outgoing servers does not have any effect on your mail.