Thunderbird setup
Thunderbird
This is my favorite way to check my emails...First if you don't have thunderbird head to:
1) open new account tab:
If its a new install you'll be taken straight to:
f you have thunderbird then open the menu -> go to add account setting then click account actions and in there you can find the add accounts page
2) add you name and email
Enter in your name, you may want something like "Mat a (Web Admin)" or mat a (the bristol cable), email address and your password as previously set then click "configure manually".
3) Then change the server to ''mail.xtreamlab.net''
change the hostname for the incoming and outgoing server to ''mail.xtreamlab.net' and username to ''bc-'' so for Alex here its ''bc-alex''. Then click re-test then you can click "done". it may throw and error in which case re add in the hostname under smtp then hit done and it will work.
4) You've got mail!
click finish (unless you want to set up end to end encryption in which case follow the prompts.Click on inbox and theres your emails!You can add your email address from other servers to thunderbird so all your emails are in one place!
Offline working
If you hit download now then all your emails will be synced up ready for your journey :)
Moving or copying emails to your computer
So weather its because you dont want the email on the server (say your doing secreat research) or your sadly leaving the organisation you can copy or move your emails onto your computer and off the server to keep for a rainy day.1) To do this, first make a folder in your local folders section:
2) Then go to the Inbox (or what ever folder you want to move to your local machine and select all your emails.
3) Then drag to the folder you made above. If you hold shift when you let go it will move all the emails off of the server. Repeat for sent emails or any thing else you need.
If you have lots of emails it will take a long time! as it needs to download each an every email!
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