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WARNING: The Office of Information Technology supports only the configuration of Mozilla Thunderbird for the specific purpose of connecting to our servers. For problems or questions concerning its use, please consult the application's Help menu or the Thunderbird Help web site. You should also try MozillaZine's Thunderbird forums.

Thunderbird is an application for e-mail and newsgroups from the Mozilla Foundation. The instructions below will help you configure the program for Georgia Tech's news server.

1. If you are running Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups or Thunderbird for the first time, you will be taken to the Account Wizard automatically. If not, you can manually launch the wizard from the menu.
   • Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups: Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings...
   • Thunderbird: Tools > Account Settings...
   From there, click Add Account…
2. On the first screen, choose Newsgroup account.
   
3. Enter your name and e-mail address.
   
4. The newsgroup server should be "news.gatech.edu".
   
5. Enter the name of your choosing for this mail account. In this example, we use "Georgia Tech News ".
   
6. On the last screen, click Finish.
7. You will now need to change a couple of settings before you will be able to connect. You can get to the settings via the menu.
   • Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups: Edit > Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings...
   • Thunderbird: Tools > Account Settings...
8. Choose Server Settings under the Georgia Tech News account on the left. Change the settings to match the image below.
   
9. This step is optional, but recommended. Choose Composition & Addressing under the Georgia Tech News account. Uncheck the box labelled "Compose messages in HTML format".
   
10. Click OK

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