Quick SSL/TLS Configuration of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.x for UTORmail

The following Account Setting preferences are necessary to enable SSL/TLS.

  1. Choose Account Settings from the Tools menu to review your Account Name and Default Identity information for your UTORmail account along with gaining access to the other Account Settings options.

  1. Next click on Server Settings for your UTORmail account to enable SSL/TLS.
  2. Looking to the right-hand part of the panel under “Server Settings” make sure there is a checkmark beside Use secure connection (SSL). This will cause the Port number box value to change from 143 to 993.
  3. Ensure there is a checkmark beside Check for new messages at startup.
  4. Then make sure there is a checkmark beside Check for new messages every 15 minutes. The preference to check for new messages should be set to 15 minutes or more but not less.*

*(When Thunderbird is used with UTORmail, you will receive notification of new messages very soon after it is delivered to your INBOX. This option will not make such notification any faster or slower. However, when there is a network or post office failure, this option determines how often Thunderbird will try to reconnect. Setting this option to less than 15 minutes will cause problems at the post office.)

  1. In the pull-down menu beside When I delete a message, choose Mark it as deleted.
  2. Check Clean up (“Expunge”) Inbox on Exit.**

**(This causes your deleted messages to be expunged--so they can no longer be undeleted and no longer take up space at the post office--whenever you exit Thunderbird. We recommend this option to make better use of shared University resources.)

  1. Check Empty Trash on Exit.

March 29, 2007