Getting started with Thunderbird
From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
If you're a beginning user of Thunderbird, you may have many questions about how to get started once you've downloaded and installed the application. A good place to begin is this tutorial. It will walk you through the basic setup and usage of Thunderbird, including:
- How to set up a new email account and start checking your email
- How to make a signature
- How to write and send mail
- How to attach a file to a message you send
- How to use the Junk Mail Controls
- How to import mail and address books
- How to set up and use message filters
- How to use Thunderbird with newsgroups
One topic the tutorial doesn't address is keeping a copy of your messages on the POP3 server after you checked for new messages with Thunderbird, so that you can still access those messages using webmail. Unlike many email clients this doesn't occur by default. You need to check the checkmark for tools -> account settings -> server settings -> "leave messages on server" when you create the account if you want to do that.
