- Adding a Secure Master Password
- Adding LDAP Addressing
- Creating and Attaching a Signature File
- Download and Install the Bates Certificate
- General Information and Links for Thunderbird E-mail
- Install and Configure for Office or Home
- Moving Messages to a Gmail Account
- Securing E-mail with Digital Certificates
Links for resources and services:
Includes Information & Library Services related links
Although Help Desk Services does not support Gmail, this is an alternative method to downloading and saving e-mail from Bates Webmail. This allows for folders and individual messages to be moved/saved to another e-mail program, rather than a long text file, opened in Wordpad.
- Download, install and configure Thunderbird on your personal computer. (Instructions can be found at http://www.bates.edu/thunderbird-install.xml). Thunderbird will allow you to save all of your mail to your own computer.
- Setup a Gmail account (http://mail.google.com/mail/signup/) if you do not already have one. (It’s FREE).
- Follow the instructions (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662) to add your gmail account to Thunderbird.
- In Thunderbird, drag the folders from your Bates account to your gmail account. All the messages in the folder will be copied into gmail. Depending on the number of messages, this may take awhile.