This tutorial will help you setup your Gmail email account using Thunderbird on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat." Thunderbird from Mozilla is the default email client program on Ubuntu. With this, you can send and receive emails in a dedicated application with offline access, a lot of personal configurations and abilities to backup them easily. We will use the standard IMAP configuration here that is the easiest one. Lastly, we hope this will help your computing with Ubuntu. Now let's start!

1. Run Thunderbird from the Ubuntu button.

2. "Account Setup" should show by now.

If not, click three lines menu > New Account > Existing Email.  

3. Type your three information:

• Your full name
• Your email address e.g. yourname@gmail.com
• Your password

4. Click Continue and let Thunderbird process it for a while.

 5. "Configuration Found" and "Available configurations" messages will show. Let it select "IMAP" and not POP3 and click Done.

6. A new window will show to ask you three things:

• Re-enter your email e.g. yourname@gmail.com, then
• Re-enter your password, then
• Click Allow to allow Thunderbird to access Gmail (this is a security called "OAuth2"), then
• This window will disappear.

7. "Account Successfully Created" message will show at the top and click Finish to the bottom.

8. Finally, your Gmail inbox will show on the left e.g. yourname@gmail.com > wait for it to read all your emails > now Thunderbird is ready to send and receive emails with your Gmail account.

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This is a listing of preinstalled applications of Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" from A to Z with brief explanations of their purposes. With this article, you will begin to know that your Ubuntu has many default apps from Additional Drivers to Videos and you will learn in general about what you can do with them in your computing. And we also included some useful tutorials related to productivity tools like LibreOffice so you can learn more. Now let's read and we wish you the best!

Thunderbird is the flagship Ubuntu email client and the free/libre open source software one for all major operating systems. by default, Thunderbird does not show sender replies and you might not like it. If you prefer Gmail-like ways to view replies including yours in every mail conversation, you can use the add-on Conversations. We will show how below.

1. Run Thunderbird

This should open your emails. If you find it blank, please first setup your email account with Thunderbird.

2. Open Add-on Page

Go to menu (three lines button) -> Add-ons and Themes -> type the name of the add-on "conversations" -> press Enter -> found Thunderbird Conversations.

3. Install Conversations Add-on

Click Install -> click OK -> add-on installed.  

4. Restart Thunderbird

Close Thunderbird and open it again. 

5. All Own Replies Now Visible

Now, Thunderbird shows your own replies in every mail conversation in manners similar to Gmail web. It includes reply buttons (on bottom of every conversation) as well as hovering tooltips (on every user account) you might have been familiar with for years.

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Thunderbird latest versions in 2023 also known as Supernova is the latest generation of the email client program also widely known as Ubuntu's email client. It is different to the previous versions as it brings out major changes to its user interface as well as improvements to the underlying system behind it. This tutorial will help you to install Thunderbird Supernova or upgrade the one installed on your Ubuntu computer. 

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This is a continuation to Email Encryption Made Easy with a hope to be more straightforward and useful. Here we will learn how to encrypt Gmail, the mail service used by millions today, in our computer with Thunderbird mail client. The purpose of encryption is security so that your mails can only be read by your recipients and vice versa by disabling other parties, including Google company, ability to read them.

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Continuing email beginner's guide, now we Ubuntu users who have Android can read our emails anywhere anytime in both devices. It's a wonderful experience. On computer we use Thunderbird, while on phone we use K-9, both are free software. This tutorial uses Disroot email account as example, thanks to its gratis IMAP feature. Now, let's go!

This tutorial explains to you how to have a free email account on the internet. Your email address will look like yourname@disroot.org and people will send you emails using it. This tutorial covers the step by step registration process, how to access your inbox, how to send your first email, and how to integrate your computer with it using a program called email client, all with pictures. This includes the reason why Disroot is chosen here. Now let's go and happy emailing!

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Nowadays, accessing Gmail in Thunderbird is somewhat tricky. Google's new authentication system implementation forces users to upgrade their Thunderbird into version 38 or later. If not, any Gmail account can't be used in Thunderbird. Here some steps to connect your Thunderbird to Gmail account.

This article covers how to upgrade Mozilla Thunderbird manually in Ubuntu. This article uses Ubuntu 15.04 as example but it should be compatible with any other version of Ubuntu. This article consists of three simple steps. We like the manual way so we know what happen while doing upgrading. We will use command line to do this.

The latest version of default Ubuntu email client application Mozilla Thunderbird now lands on Ubuntu repository. It means that you will get the latest version when installing Thunderbird or running update on your system. So what's new in this release?

• YouSendIt no longer expires Filelinks after 1 week
• The prompt given when a password had changed sometimes referred to a network error rather than a change of password
• Some Linux users may have been unable to start Thunderbird from outside the installation directory
• Miscellaneous other stability and display updates