Configuring Thunderbird

Setting up the Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client

Older instructions

Prior to 2024-6-19 (??date may need changing), instructions for setting up Thunderbird were in an HTML web page https://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/mail_thunderbird3.html. This page dealt with a single email provider and none of the additional features of Thunderbird. It is also possible that the recommended settings may be sub-optimal or not work.

What you will need to know

While some of the following information may be gathered by Thunderbird itself as we set it up for a particular NCF member, it is useful to have it saved somewhere safe for reference and security. The list of information has been mentioned already in the Email (currently draft??) page. You may also want to know the URL (i.e., address) of your Calendar. If you are going to use your NCF Zimbra Calendar, then you will want the ICS URL that you can find using the following steps:

• Log into your NCF account with a web browser.
• Choose Email (i.e., Zimbra)
• Select Calendar
• Click the small downward pointing triangle next to the Calendar. This will open up a menu box.
• Choose Share Calendar from the menu. This will open a dialog for sharing your calendar

 with other users, but we just want the ICS URL at the bottom.

The ICS URL for NCF member zz999 will be

  https://mail.ncf.ca/home/zz999@ncf.ca/Calendar.ics

You can generally copy the text of the URL by Right-Click on it, so it is easy to paste into the Calendar settings of Thunderbird or into a file where this information will be saved.