Campus Email Address Lookup
Checking Folders for New Messages
Note: Please configure folders to check for new messages only if you have a server-side filter that moves new messages into the folder, or if the folder is shared.
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Right-click on the folder.
Click on "Properties."
In the "Folder Properties" window, check the box by "Check this folder for new messages".
Click the button labeled "OK".
Note: On start-up, Thunderbird apparently checks only the Inbox.
To check all the other folders, click on "Get Mail" and select your
Mathematical Sciences account.
Checking Quota
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Right-click on your Inbox.
In the menu, select "Properties..."
In the window that pops up, click on the "Quota" tab.
Your mail disk usage and quota will be displayed.
Click the "OK" button.
Configuration on Linux
Configuration on Windows
Creating Filters
Note: If you have configured server-side filters and are using IMAP to read your email, you do not need to configure filters in the email client.
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Click on "Tools" in the menu bar.
In the menu, select "Message Filters..."
In the "Message Filters" window, click on the "New" button.
In the "Filter Rules" window, under "For incoming messages that:",
define the messages you'd like to filter with this rule.
Under "Perform these actions:", specify what you would like the rule to
do to messages that match the rule.
In the "Filter Rules" window, click the "OK" button.
Close the "Message Filters" window.
Frequently Asked Questions
Maintaining an Online Address Book
Marking Messages as Read
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Select the messages you want to mark as read.
In the menu bar, click on "Message".
Select "Mark".
Click on "As Read".
Reducing Disk Usage
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Configure Thunderbird to empty the Trash folder and expunge deleted
messages from the Inbox folder on exit.
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In the menu across the top of the window, select "Edit."
In the pull-down menu, select "Account Settings."
Under your DIVMS email account, select "Server Settings."
Make sure that "Cleanup (Expunge) Inbox on Exit" and "Empty Trash on
Exit" are both checked.
Click the "OK button.
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In the menu across the top of the window, select "File".
Click on "Empty Trash".
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In the menu across the top of the window, select "File" again.
Click on "Compact Folders".
Spam Filtering
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Click on "Tools" in the menu bar.
In the menu, select "Message Filters..."
In the "Message Filters" window, click on the "New" button.
In the "Filter Rules" window, in the selection box next to "Subject",
choose "begins with".
In the empty box to the right of "begins with", type "[SPAM?]-".
Under "Perform these actions" at the bottom of the box, click on the
button next to "Move to folder:".
To move spam into a new folder, click the "New Folder" button to the
right. In the "New Folder" box, type in the name of the folder. Click the
"OK" button.
In the "Filter Rules" window, click the "OK" button.
Close the "Message Filters" window.
Subscribing to Folders
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Right-click on your Inbox.
In the menu, select "Subscribe..."
If you have nested folders, click on the "+" by each folder to see subfolders.
Click on the box beside each folder you want to subscribe to, so that the box shows a check mark.
When you have checked every box you want to subscribe to, click on the "Subscribe" button.
Click the "OK" button.
Subscribing to Shared Folders
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Right-click on your Inbox.
In the menu, select "Subscribe..."
Scroll down to the folder named "Other Users".
Click on the "+" in the small box to the left of the "Other Users" folder symbol. Shared folders that you have access to should now appear underneath "Other Users".
Click on the box beside each shared folder you want to subscribe to, so that the box shows a check mark.
When you have checked every box you want to subscribe to, click on the "Subscribe" button.
Click the "OK" button.
There should now be a folder named "Other Users" in your "Folders" tree in the box along the left side of your Thunderbird window.
Click on the "+" in the small box to the left of the "Other Users" folder symbol. The shared folders that you have subscribed to should now appear underneath "Other Users".
