Friday, March 21, 2008

Gmail and JMU Email Config

We'll be talking about configuring Thunderbird so that you can transfer your messages from JMU Webmail to Gmail today. Here's some resources that have the configuration info.

Setting up Thunderbird with Gmail.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662

Setting up Thunderbird with JMU.
http://www.jmu.edu/computing/helpdesk/selfhelp/thunderbird.shtml

The short version of what I'll show you is that you can set up both of these accounts in Thunderbird, and then just drag messages back and forth between accounts. Drag all of your messages from your JMU account to your Gmail account, set your JMU account to forward all mail to your Gmail account, and you're officially switched over.

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