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Setting Up Zimbra in Thunderbird

This guide will show you how to access your Zimbra account using Mozilla Thunderbird

If you do not know your local email password please set it now

Instructions for setting or resetting your local email password may be found here

Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird

You may download the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird from http://www.getthunderbird.com

Launch Thunderbird and enter your account information

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1. Enter the following account information into the corresponding fields in the Mail Account Setup window

        The name you wish to be displayed when to send messages in the 'Your Name' field

        Your full email address in the 'Email address' field

        Your local email password in the 'Password' field

2. Select the 'Continue' button

Set the account to IMAP and choose to manually configure the account

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1. Select the 'IMAP (remote folders)' radio button

2. Select the 'Manual config' button

Enter the server information and finish creating the account

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1. Enter the following server information into the corresponding fields

        Type zimbra.upenn.edu into the field 'Server hostname' next to the Incoming AND

            Outgoing sections

        Enter 143 into the field 'Port' next to the Incoming section

        Enter 587 into the field 'Port' next to the Outgoing section

        Select STARTTLS from the drop down menu 'SSL' next to the Incoming AND

            Outgoing sections

        Select Normal password from the drop down menu 'Authentication' next to the

            Incoming AND Outgoing sections

        Enter your PennKey name into the field 'Username'

2. Select the 'Create Account' button