Setting Up Thunderbird
This page will assist you in connecting Mozilla
Thunderbird to the campus email system. These instructions were
written for Version 1.5.0.8.
Mozilla Thunderbird secure connection settings.
- Open Mozilla Thunderbird
- If you do not receive a dialog asking you to create a new account, select Account Settings from the Tools menu. Click on the add account button.
- Select email account.
- Click Next.
- Fill in you full name in the Your Name field (Example: John Smith).
- In the Email Address field type your Cornell email address (Example J-Smith@cornellcollege.edu)
- Click Next
- In the Incoming and Outgoing mail server fields, change the entry to "mail1.cornellcollege.edu" without the quotes and select IMAP for the server type
- Click Next
- Type your Cornell username where it says Incoming User Name (Example: j-smith)
- Click Next
- The Account Name field should be automatically filled in correctly with your Cornell Email address
- Click Next
- Look over the information in the box. Make sure it looks correct. If it does, click finish.
- You may receive an alert about your email server, this will
be corrected in later steps and can be ignored.
- Click on Tools, then Account Settings and finally
Server Settings.
- In the Security Settings section, select SSL.
- Select Outgoing Server (SMTP) from the left.
- Click on Edit
- Check the box for TLS, if available.
- Hit OK
- Select Composition & Addressing under your email account
- Select Use a Different LDAP Server and click the Edit Directories box.
- In the box that pops up click Add
- Under Name type Cornell
- Hostname is ldap.cornellcollege.edu
- Base DN is ou=Cornell College,dc=cornellcollege,dc=edu
- Port Number is 389
- Bind DN is cornell-college\username (ex. cornell-college\j-smith)
- Click Ok to close the Directory Server Properties dialog
- Click Ok to close the LDAP Directory Servers dialog
- Click Ok to close the Account Settings dialog.
- Click on the Get Mail button on the top left.
You should now be able to send and receive mail using the new secure IMAP or POP connection.
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