ReSieve Help File

Mozilla Thunderbird

Step 1: In Thunderbird select the Tools/Accounts Settings. The E-mail Accounts dialog will appear.

Step 2: At the bottom of the left panel, Click Account Action/Add Mail Account.
Enter your name, and in the Email address box enter your email address then click 'Continue'
Select Pop3 option, (Imap is used in model 1400 and 1600 only)
Lastly, enter password and check remember password. if desired. Click 'Done'

 

Step 3: In left panel, click on server settings below the email address you just created. This will bring the details of your account in the right side of the window.
Now, you see the server name and email address.
In the server name box enter the DNS name or the IP address of your ReSieve box.

 In the 'User Name' text box, add the pop3 address to your email address, syntax goes like this.
Note the colon separator between.
pop3.server.com:YourEmailAddress@SomeServer.com

If for some reason the pop3 server in not on port 110 then syntax goes like this
pop3.server.com:Port:YourEmailAddress@SomeServer.com
proxy[%port]%pop.mailserver.net[:port]:username

For ssl use then syntax goes like this
pop3.server.com:Port:YourEmailAddress@SomeServer.com:ssl

Step 4: Create the folders so that once ReSieve has tagged the emails, your email program can take them and put everything in the right folder.
Right click your email address in the left panel and select 'New Folder', give them the same name that those of the tags you created in the ReSieve window.

Step 5: Thunderbird needs instructions to put your emails to the right folder.
Click  menu Tools/Message filters

Click the New button
Enter filter name, in this case we wrote 'spam'.
Select 'Match all of the following'
ReSieve, buy default will write its tag in the email's Subject, so
Select Subject, contains, (one of the tags you have created in ReSieve), in this case 'spam'

Lastly, in the 'Perform these actions:' box
Select 'Move Message to' and click on 'choose folder'. Your email address(es) will appear, select the one you need and then the folder in which the emails should go to.