Thunderbird 60.9.0 email client 'Account Settings' (in 2021 June) on an Acer desktop computer with the Ubuntu-MATE-18.04 operating system (version 60.9.0 was released in 2019 Sept)

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Sections of this page, below :

INTRODUCTION    

'Account Settings' Groups:

1. Account-Name

2. Server-Settings

3. Copies-and-Folders

4. Composition-and-Addressing

5. Junk-Settings

6. DiskSpace

7. Return-Receipts

8. Security

9. Local-Folders

10. Local-Junk

11. Local-DiskSpace

12. Outgoing-Server (SMTP)



MORE-INFO     CONCLUSION     BOTTOM-of-PAGE

INTRODUCTION : In 2019 October, I upgraded an Acer desktop computer with the Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 (2016 April release) operating system installed to Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 (2018 April release) --- both 64-bit LTS ('Long Term Support') releases. That Ubuntu-MATE (Wikipedia link) upgrade-install is described on an Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 INSTALL NOTES on Acer Desktop (2019 Oct) page (not avialable yet, in August 2021). Among the applications on the Ubuntu-MATE (Linux) Acer desktop computer was the Mozilla Thunderbird email client (Wikipedia link) --- version 60.9.0, released in 2019 Sept. In 2021 June, I did an upgrade (and data migration) of a aWindow7-Dell desktop computer to a Windows10-HP desktop computer. That data migration included the migration of Thunderbird 8.0 mail on the Win7 computer to Thunderbird 68.6.0 on the Win10 computer. That Win7-Dell to Win10-HP data migration was described on a Dell-to-HP Data Migration (2020-2021) page --- AND the account-settings in the old Thunderbird 8.0 on the Win7-Dell computer were described on a Thunderbird 8.0 Account Settings page. When I was preparing to do the migration of Thunderbird 8.0 mail files to Thunderbird 68.6.0 on the Win10-HP desktop computer, I decided to record the account-settings of Thunderbird 60.9.0 on my Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 Acer desktop computer --- to serve as a guide-and/or-comparison to the Thunderbird settings on the Win10-HP computer. This page is intended to record those 'Account Settings' of Thunderbird 60.9.0 on my Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 Acer desktop computer --- as they were set on 27 June 2021. To get to the 'Account Settings' window in Thunderbird 60.9.0, I used the toolbar path   Edit > Account Settings There are twelve (12) panel-names shown in a list on the left of the 'Account Settings' window --- divided into several sections: bsmith@mail-provider.com (a mail account-name; the email address) Server Settings Copies & Folders Composition & Addressing Junk Settings Disc Space Return Receipts Security Local Folders Junk Settings Disc Space Outgoing Server (SMTP) The 12 sections below show important settings in each of these 12 'Account Settings' panels. Instead of using screen-captures of the many panels (and some sub-panels), in the sections below, I have used the following conventions: Titles and labels on the panels are denoted by single-quotes around the text strings. Text strings that I have added as comments are generally enclosed in parentheses or brackets. Entries in 'entry fields' are generally shown after a colon (:) at the end of the label-string for the entry field. A checkbutton that is checked will be denoted by 'C-YES' before its label-string. A checkbutton that is unchecked will be denoted by 'C-NOT' before its label-string. A radiobutton that is selected will be denoted by 'R-YES' before its label-string. A radiobutton that is not-selected will be denoted by 'R-NOT' before its label-string. A list selection will be denoted by 'LIST:' followed by the label-string of an item selected in the list. Besides section-titles, a few of the items --- such as 'Server name' or 'Port' --- may be shown in bold, because they are often a critical (and non-obvious) item that is needed to receive-or-send mail via the mail provider. These notes can serve to help me check the 'Account Settings' in any newer release of Thunderbird --- on any computer, Microsoft Windows or Linux --- especially after the migration of Thunderbird mail files. Enough of this introduction. A description of the Thunderbird 60.9.0 'Account Settings' follows. NOTE: There is a set of Thunderbird 'Global Preferences' windows and panels. Some of those windows and panels are accessed by buttons on the 'Account Settings' panels. The Thunderbird 'Global Preferences' may someday be put on a separate web page --- since there are so many of those panels and settings.

Thunderbird 60.9.0 'Account Settings':

1. Account-Name panel   [This panel is referred to by the account   email address plus pop-mail-server-name, like:   bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.mail-provider.com).] 'Account name:' bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.mail-provider.com) 'Default Identity' 'Each account has an identity, which is the information that other people see when they read your messages.' 'Your name:' Bob Smith   (an example name) 'Email Address:' bsmith@mail-provider.com   (an example email address) 'Reply-to Address:' [blank] 'Organization:' [blank] 'Signature text:' [blank] C-NOT 'Use HTML' (for signature) C-NOT 'Attach the signature from a file instead' C-NOT 'Attach my vCard to messages' 'Outgoing Server (SMTP):' LIST: 'Outgoing server - smtp.mail-provider.com (Default)' An 'Edit SMTP server...' button can be used to bring up a separate 'SMTP Server' window with the following entries and choices: 'Description:' Outgoing server 'Server Name:' smtp.mail-provider.com 'Port:' 587   'Default: 587' 'Connection security:' STARTTLS (NOTE: Other options here are 'SSL/TLS' or 'None'. Use 'SSL/TLS'?) 'Authenication method:' Normal password (Other options here are 'No Authentication' or 'Encrypted password' or 'Kerberos /GSSAPI' or 'NTLM' or 'OAuth2'.) 'User Name:' bsmith 2. Server-Settings panel 'Server type: POP mail server'   (Account was setup to use POP mail rather than IMAP.   This text-string is not changeable.) [NOTE: A new account can be set up by using the 'Add Mail Account...' button in the 'Account Actions' drop-down menu at the bottom of the left-side of the 'Account Settings' window --- below the list of 12 account-settings panels (12 groups of settings).] 'Server name': pop.mail-provider.com   (an example server name) 'Port:' 995   'Default: 995' 'User name:' bsmith   (an example name) Security Settings 'Connection security:'   LIST: 'SSL/TLS' (NOTE: Other options here are 'SSL/TLS' and 'None'. Use 'SSL/TLS'?) 'Authentication method:'   LIST: 'Normal password' (Other options here are 'Encrypted password', 'Kerberos / GSSAPI', 'NTLM'.) Server Settings C-YES 'Check for messages at startup' C-YES 'Check for new messages every:' 10 'minutes' C-YES 'Automatically download new messages' C-NOT 'Fetch headers only' C-NOT 'Leave messages on server' (The following 2 radiobuttons were grayed-out, because this checkbutton was not checked.) R-YES 'For at most:' 14 'days' R-YES 'Until I delete them' Message Storage C-NOT 'Empty Deleted folder on Exit' 'Message Store Type:'   LIST: 'File per folder (mbox)' 'Local directory:'   /home/bob/.thunderbird/za3512up.default/ Mail/pop.mail-provider.com (A 'Browse...' button is on the right of this entry field.) 3. Copies-and-Folders panel 'When sending messages, automatically:' C-YES 'Place a copy in:' R-YES '"Sent" folder on:'   LIST: 'Local Folders' [Another entry on the list here is the account name: bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.provider.com)] R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Sent on Local Folders' C-NOT 'Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to' C-NOT 'Cc these email addresses:' [blank, no addressed separated by commas] C-NOT 'Bcc these email addresses:' [blank, no addressed separated by commas] 'Message Archives' C-YES 'Keep message archives in:' R-YES '"Archives" folder on:'   LIST: 'Local Folders' [Another entry on the list here is the account name: bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.provider.com)] R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Choose Folder...' 'Drafts and Templates' 'Keep draft messages in:' R-YES '"Drafts" folder on:'   LIST: 'Local Folders' [Another entry on the list here is the account name: bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.provider.com)] R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Drafts on Local Folders' 'Keep message templates in:' R-YES '"Templates" folder on:'   LIST: 'Local Folders' [Another entry on the list here is the account name: bsmith@mail-provider.com(pop.provider.com)] R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Choose Folder...' C-NOT 'Show confirmation dialogue when messages are saved' (NOTE: It might be nice to turn this on.) 4. Composition-and-Addressing panel 'Composition' C-YES 'Compose messages in HTML format' C-YES 'Automatically quote the original message when replying' 'Then,'   LIST: 'Start my reply below the quote' C-YES 'Include signature for replies' (NOTE: I should turn this off, if I am never going to use this.) C-NOT 'Include signature for forwards' A 'Global Composing Preferences' button brings up the 'Thunderbird Preferences' window positioned in the 'Composition-General' panel. 'Addressing' 'When looking up addresses:' R-YES 'Use my global LDAP server preferences for this account' R-NOT 'Use a different LDAP server'   LIST: 'None' A 'Global Addressing Preferences' button brings up the 'Thunderbird Preferences' window positioned in the 'Composition-Addressing' panel. 5. Junk-Settings panel Selection C-YES 'Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account' (NOTE: Probably should un-check this. I can determine junk better. This may assign mail to Junk when it should not be.) 'If enabled, you must first train Thunderbird to identify junk mail by using the Junk toolbar button to mark messages as junk or not. You need to identify both junk and non junk messages. After that Thunderbird will be able to mark junk automatically.' 'Do not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in' C-NOT 'Collected Addresses' C-YES 'Personal Address Book' C-NOT 'Trust junk mail headers set by:'   LIST: 'SpamAssasin' 'If enabled, Thunderbird will automatically consider messages marked by this external classifier as junk.' Destination and Retention C-NOT 'Move new junk messages to:' (The following radiobuttons were grayed out because of this NOT-checked checkbutton.) R-YES '"Junk" folder on:'   LIST: 'bsmithR@mail-provider.com(pop.mail-provider.com)' R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Choose Folder...' R-NOT 'Automatically delete junk mail older than' 14 'days' A 'Global Junk Preferences' button brings up the 'Thunderbird Preferences' window positioned in the 'Security-Junk' panel. 6. Disc Space panel 'To save disk space, do not download:' C-NOT 'Messages larger than' 50 'kB' 'To recover disc space, old messages can be permanently deleted, including originals on the remote server.' R-YES 'Do not delete any messages' R-NOT 'Delete all but the most recent' 2000 'messages' R-NOT 'Delete messages more than' 30 'days old' C-YES 'Always keep starred messages' (NOTE: I could uncheck this because I do not use/encounter starred messages.) 7. Return-Receipts panel R-YES 'Use my global return receipt preferences for this account' A 'Global Preferences' button brings up the 'Thunderbird Preferences' window positioned in the 'Advanced-ReturnReceipts' panel. R-NOT 'Customise return receipts for this account' (If this radiobutton were selected, a bunch of grayed-out checkbutton and radiobutton options would be activated --- with default settings, as follows.) C-NOT 'When sending messages, always request a return receipt' 'When a receipt arrives:' R-YES 'Leave it in my Inbox' R-NOT 'Move it to my "Sent" folder' 'When I receive a request for a return receipt:' R-NOT 'Never send a return receipt' R-YES 'Allow return receipts for some messages' 'If I am not in the To or Cc of the message:'   LIST: 'Ask me' 'If the sender is outside my domain:'   LIST: 'Ask me' 'In all other cases:'   LIST: 'Ask me' 8. Security panel (There were no certificate entries on this panel. It included the following info-labels and entry fields and checkbutton and radiobuttons.) 'To send and receive signed or encrypted messages, you should specify both a digital signing certificate and an encryption certificate.' Digital Signing 'Use this certificate to digitally sign messages you send:' [blank entry field] [A 'Select...' button is presented.] C-NOT 'Digitally sign messages (by default)' Encryption 'Use this certificate to encrypt & decrypt messages sent to you:' [blank entry field] [A 'Select...' button is presented.] 'Default encryption setting when sending messages:' R-YES 'Never (do not use encryption)' R-NOT 'Required (cannot send message unless all receipients have certificates)' Certificates (Two buttons were in this section.) A 'Manage Certificates' button brings up a 'Certificate Manager' window with 4 panels --- 'Your Certificates', 'People', 'Servers', 'Authorities'. A 'Security Devices' button brings up a 'Device Manager' window. 9. Local-Folders panel 'The following is a special account. There are no identities associated with it.' 'Account name:' Local Folders Manage Storage C-NOT 'Empty Deleted folder on Exit' 'Message Store Type:'   LIST: 'File per folder (mbox)' 'Local Directory': /home/bob/.thunderbird/za3512up.default/ Mail/Local Folders 10. (Local) Junk Settings panel Selection C-YES 'Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account' (NOTE: Probably should un-check this. I can determine junk better. This may assign mail to Junk when it should not be.) 'If enabled, you must first train Thunderbird to identify junk mail by using the Junk toolbar button to mark messages as junk or not. You need to identify both junk and non junk messages. After that Thunderbird will be able to mark junk automatically.' 'Do not automatically mark mail as junk if the sender is in' C-NOT 'Collected Addresses' C-YES 'Personal Address Book' C-NOT 'Trust junk mail headers set by:'   LIST: 'SpamAssasin' 'If enabled, Thunderbird will automatically consider messages marked by this external classifier as junk.' Destination and Retention C-NOT 'Move new junk messages to:' (The following radiobuttons were grayed out because of this NOT-checked checkbutton.) R-YES '"Junk" folder on:'   LIST: 'Local Folders' R-NOT 'Other:'   LIST: 'Junk on Local Folders' C-NOT 'Automatically delete junk mail older than'   14 'days' A 'Global Junk Preferences' button brings up the 'Thunderbird Preferences' window positioned in the 'Security-Junk' panel. 11. Local-DiskSpace panel 'To recover disc space, old messages can be permanently deleted' R-YES 'Do not delete any messages' R-NOT 'Delete all but the most recent' 30 'messages' R-NOT 'Delete messages more than' 30 'days old' C-YES 'Always keep starred messages' (NOTE: I could uncheck this because I do not use/encounter starred messages.) 12. Outgoing-Server (SMTP) panel 'When managing your identities you can use a server from this list by selecting it as the Outgoing Server (SMTP), or you can use the default server from this list by selecting "Use Default Server".' LIST: Outgoing server - smtp.mail-provider.com (Default) (There are 'Add...', 'Edit...', 'Remove', and 'Set Default' buttons on the right of this list-box area.) Details of selected server: (The following text is not editable here.) 'Description:' Outgoing server 'Server name': smtp.mail-provider.com 'Port': 587 'User name': bsmith 'Authentication method': Normal Password 'Connection Security': STARTTLS (Another outgoing option here is 'SSL/TLS'.) END of Tunderbird 60.9.0 'Account Settings' Notes. (on Acer desktop computer, Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 operating system)

FOR MORE INFORMATION: To find more information on Thunderbird and its settings, you can try WEB SEARCHES on keywords such as the following. 'thunderbird mail account settings' 'thunderbird mail global preferences' You can also try Wikipedia pages like the following, and following links on those pages for even more information. Wikipedia page - 'Mozilla Thunderbird' Wikipedia page - 'Post Office Protocol' (POP) Wikipedia page - 'Internet Message Access Protocol' (IMAP) Wikipedia page - 'Mbox' Wikipedia page - 'Transport Layer Security' (TSL - and SSL) Wikipedia page - 'Certificate authority' Wikipedia page - 'Certificate Transparency' Wikipedia page - 'Digital signature'

CONCLUSION: These 'Thunderbird 60.9.0 Account Settings Notes' may be used to help me check on Thunderbird account-settings --- specifically for the Thunderbird 68.6.0 release installed in 2021 on the afore-mentioned HP-Windows10 desktop computer. These 'Thunderbird Account Settings Notes' may be used to help me if/when I have to migrate Thunderbird mail to a new release of Thunderbird --- for example, if I have to do another data migration from a Windows 10 computer to a Windows 11 computer --- or when I have to migrate Thunderbird mail to another Linux computer. One could bring this web page up in a web browser on any Microsoft Windows or Linux computer, and check 'mail settings' on that computer by comparing to the notes on this page. Hence, this web page is provided on the internet --- to help me, and perhaps others. Go to Top of Page, above.

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