thunderbird

[Darcy Casselman]

GMail was a freaking miracle when it appeared in 2004. There'd never been
anything like it on the web before that. Thunderbird, and programs like it,
are a bit older. For most people, they might be obsolete.

I still use Thunderbird, particularly for work. I did use it with GMail for
years, just because I liked having a local copy of my email. I don't do
this anymore.

There's something to be said for not giving all my personal correspondence
to a company like Google (tho I do anyway). But if you don't mind that and
GMail's working for you, then there probably isn't a good reason to use
Thunderbird.

Darcy.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen, let me get this straight, if the messages go though gmail anyway
> why is this different than using gmail? I looked up Wiki and the
> explanation there is what you tell me using MTA,s and MDA,s.
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
> stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-03-15 12:39 PM, Raymond House wrote:
>> > Hi Bob, thanks for the explanation, I have read this before and I like
>> the idea but How do I go about setting this up?
>> > If I send an email using Thunderbird does it not go through gmail
>> anyway?This is the part I don't understand.
>>
>> If you're using Google as your email provider, yes, it will go through
>> Google.
>>
>> When you send mail, it goes through a mail transfer agent (MTA), usually
>> using SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol). A
>> network of MTas talk to each other over the internet to send and receive
>> mail just like the post office does.
>> Eventually your email wil end up on another machine somewhere designated
>> as the mail deliver agent (MDA), where it waits
>> for you to retrieve it and read it.  MDAs usually provide either POP3
>> (post office protocol version 3) or IMAP (internet
>> mail access protocol) to let you pick up your messages.
>> Your mail user agent (MUA) is what lets you read your email, and that
>> could be Thunderbird or an online webmail service
>> you use through a browser.
>>
>> When you're using a gmail address, Google is providing three services for
>> you.
>>
>> (1) an identity (your gmail address), used to authentication and
>> authorization
>>
>> (2) an MTA used to send email
>>
>> (3) an MDA, used to receive email
>>
>> optionally, they provide a webmail MUA so you can read email.
>>
>> If you want to set up Thunderbird [1] as your MUA instead, you need to
>> configure your account to use your gmail
>> identity, use the google SMTP server as your MTA, and use the google POP3
>> or (preferably) IMAP server as your MDA.
>> Then, your mail starts appearing in the message pane and you can reply.
>>
>> [1] https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Set-up-email/Thunderbird-and-
>> Gmail/ta-p/14181
>>
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