Regrettable, because many people definitely do not want that. Unfortunately, by default Thunderbird will use IMAP. Fill out your data and tick: Remember password.ĥ. Then you're being presented with a window called Mail Account Setup. When you haven't used Thunderbird before, click the button:Ĥ. That's usually the best option, because otherwise Thunderbird will pump an enormous amount of old e-mails onto your hard disk. POP Download: select the following option:Įnable POP for mail that arrives from now on Then click the small gear-wheel in the upper right corner of the Gmail window - Settings - tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP. POP is in this case a safer choice than IMAP, because then you won't touch the e-mails in Gmail itself, when you throw away e-mails in Thunderbird. In your Gmail account, enable POP support. Ensure that you have internet connection.Ģ.
So you minimize the risk that you permanently delete e-mails or contacts in Gmail by accident.ġ. You can easily configure Thunderbird to receive and send e-mails with your Gmail account.īelow you find a how-to for setting up Thunderbird in such a way, that it hardly influences the web mail. If not, you can easily install it with a few mouseclicks, by means of the application Software Manager. In all editions of Linux Mint, it's present by default. Mozilla Thunderbird is a fine ligthweight email client.
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