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Important!
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................................9
1.1 Who can use these guides?.................................................................................................................10
1.2 How to use this document....................................................................................................................10
2 Why Easy-Email?........................................................................................................................12
2.1 Common email problems.....................................................................................................................13
2.2 How does Easy-Email help me?..........................................................................................................16
2.3 How does Easy-Email work?...............................................................................................................17
2.4 Why Gmail? ........................................................................................................................................18
5 Getting Started.........................................................................................................................27
5.1 Try before you decide..........................................................................................................................27
5.2 The example used in the guide............................................................................................................27
5.3 What do you need to get started?........................................................................................................29
9 Now what?...................................................................................................................................84
9.1 Donations gladly accepted!..................................................................................................................85
9.2 Simplify your email life even further with the Advanced Guide............................................................85
10 Appendix: Gmail........................................................................................................................89
10.1 Backup and restore your emails........................................................................................................90
10.2 Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients (recommended).......................................................99
10.3 Export contacts................................................................................................................................101
10.4 Import contacts................................................................................................................................103
10.5 Create a signature...........................................................................................................................104
1 Introduction
Easy-Email extends your existing email setup, so you can:
✔ Manage all your email addresses in one window with one login on any computer!
No more:
✗ Logging in to several different email accounts to check all your email addresses.
✗ Emailing yourself copies of emails from one email account to another just so you can keep yourself
informed :-)
Your email is streamlined, efficient, accessible anywhere, from any computer – easy!
Whether you currently use webmail or an email client, whether you use one email address on multiple
computers or you have multiple email addresses on multiple computers, we can save you heaps of time and
hassle.
You do not need to purchase new software – you simply setup your existing email client software or use free
email software. In fact, our favorite email client, Thunderbird, is free to download and works on Mac, Linux
and Windows.
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The Easy-Email solution works with most popular email clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, Live Mail, Apple Mail
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etc.), you can use webmail and many mobile devices (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm webOS, Symbian,
Windows Mobile and more) to access your email. The solution also works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
See it in action in our videos here. And you can find real life use cases on our website here.
This is the reason why a simple solution needs such a long explanation!
For example:
If you have set up your own email accounts with incoming and outgoing servers (not just webmail) you
should be fine!
If you are not comfortable doing the setup yourself just call your IT “go to” person or a handy teenager and
give them this guide! Once Easy-Email is set up you do not need to do anything to enjoy the benefits.
If you are a more technical user you will find plenty of interesting tips in this document and the forum on our
website for discussions and questions. And of course following this guide will still save you lots of time over
researching it yourself.
You can make it easier to find your way around the document if you open the Table of Contents on the left
hand side of the PDF reader.
The way to do this varies from PDF reader to PDF reader, but here is a screenshot showing you what it looks
like:
2 Why Easy-Email?
Because people just want their email to work, simply, on any computer. With Easy-Email it's brilliantly simple!
✔ Others would like to use other computers but they have to lug their laptop everywhere because that's
where their emails are stored
✔ Many have 3 or 4 or even more email addresses which they use for different purposes (one guy had
eleven email addresses!)
✔ Most people tend to use webmail for their personal email and an email client for their work email but
the lines are blurring.
✔ Many use a combination of webmail and an email client and send themselves emails from one
address to another so they can work on work related emails at home or personal emails at work (and
various other messy combinations!)
People we've talked to go to enormous lengths and formulate elaborate methods to access their email. Here
are some of the things people do “in real life” to access their email when they are away from their main
computer:
“I get my wife to forward me the important emails to a webmail address when I'm traveling.”
“I use a service that lets me view my emails from another computer.” (around $20 per month)
“I can get access to new emails that arrive from my netbook so when I respond I just copy myself on
the email. Actually it got messy having these mails end up in my inbox so now I've made up an email
address which I bring into my main account. I have a filter set up sending these emails directly to a
special folder. When I send an email I copy this “person” on my mails so I know anything in the
special folder is actually a sent mail.” Clever eh?
“I tell my clients to email me on my Yahoo address while I'm traveling. It's not very professional but
it's more reliable and much cheaper than trying to login with the vpn in a hotel.”
“I just use Gmail but occasionally my internet connection at home drops out. It's OK not to get new
emails for a few hours but what's annoying is not being able to access any of the information in my
emails. The last time this happened I was supposed to be doing a translation for someone – the
document was an attachment to an email so I couldn't start work on it.”
“I carry my netbook and pay for wireless internet – which is OK unless I'm overseas, then I get the
access code for the internet of wherever I am. It works but it means I have to configure it each time
I'm in a new place. It's often easier to go to a cafe that has WiFi than to work in our partner offices!”
“Well if I don't have internet access then obviously I don't have access to anything, it's just one of
these things you have to work around. I suppose I make sure my phone numbers are all up to date.”
Actually the technology we've used for the Easy-Email solution does already exist, it's just not all together in
one place in an easy to follow format. It has taken our IT expert months to come up with this solution and to
get it to work seamlessly across several email clients.
Hopefully we've now made it easy for you to enjoy Email as it should be: Easy!
A big thank you to all of the “real life” people who helped with the research, our testers and all of the people
who have given feedback on the guides, the website and the general concept.
No connection means no access – you cannot read stored emails, start replies to emails already in your
inbox, you cannot look up contacts or access information stored in your emails.
And if your connection is poor you may lose emails you have started to write, attaching documents or
pictures is time consuming and it is generally a pain in the neck!
The problem is that you cannot easily access your email from any computer other than your main computer.
Some people work around this problem by using POP to view unread mail from computers other than their
main computer.
John Doe is our example throughout these guides. He uses Windows Mail on his main computer. He also
has a netbook on which he uses Outlook Express. When he is away from home without his netbook he
accesses his email from a Gmail account.
John downloads his emails to his main computer. His emails are stored here so once downloaded from the
mailbox they are not accessible from other computers.
He can access any new emails from both the netbook and Gmail until they are downloaded to his main
computer.
This all sounds great... but it does not work all that well.
Firstly he can only see and respond to new emails. Any emails he sends from his netbook do not appear on
his main computer so he has to remember to copy himself on his own emails!
Once John returns to his main computer and downloads his emails, he can't see which emails he has read
already – all the emails he downloads are marked unread. And the emails he sent and copied himself on,
appear in his inbox and not the Sent Mail folder!
With Easy-Email, anything he does on one computer is reflected on any other computer!
It's a pain having your eLife all over the place. There's a risk of missing important emails if you do not
remember to check all of your accounts. Certain email addresses are set up to download to your computer,
others are on webmail, others might download to a club computer or a specific work computer.
You spend time emailing yourself from one email address to the other, copying yourself on emails and
generally wasting a lot of time.
✗ Look up the meeting address or find a phone number, no need to login and wait
✗ Compose emails, read and respond to downloaded emails, then send and receive when you have a
connection again.
All emails are automatically synchronized with Gmail so they can still be accessed from any computer.
2.2.2 Email client users - access all your email from anywhere
➢ Use your favorite email client on your own computers
➢ Sent mail, read mail, unread mail, mail in folders is all synchronized across all your computers and
Gmail. Use your main computer, laptop, netbook, mobile device... or any other computer with an
internet connection and work with all your email as if you were sitting by your main computer.
2.2.3 Multiple email addresses - all your email in one window with one
login
➢ Each email address has its own inbox, sent mail and folders.
➢ Send emails from any of your email addresses as if they are sent from that address, even if you are
working in Gmail.
You can synchronize as many email clients, computers and mobile devices as you like.
Easy-Email uses Gmail as the synchronization hub. The Easy-Email guides show you step by step how to do
this. The basic steps are:
• Set up Gmail to download all your email from all your email addresses.
You only need to set it up once and your email will synchronize automatically from then on.
POP is the technology that allows Gmail to collect emails from other mailboxes. Gmail can pick up emails
from any other webmail or email provider that allows POP access.
IMAP is the function that allows Gmail to act as a synchronization hub for other email clients. Gmail is the
best email provider we have found that supports IMAP. It is widespread, easy to use, free and has a
powerful spam filter.
Check our web site for the latest list of available email clients: www.Easy-Email.net/download
If you do not want to use Gmail our solution can still work for you! You will need another IMAP
server as your central synchronization point and you will have to modify the configuration. Visit our web site
at www.Easy-Email.net for more details.
The good news is that if you currently use Hotmail, AOL or an Yahoo Mail Plus account you can continue
to send and receive emails using your current email address. You just need to do it from Gmail or
any of the other email clients listed here. So there is no need to tell everyone you have changed address.
And it is very easy to transfer all your contacts and email from most webmail providers to
Gmail! This also includes the free Yahoo Mail.
If you do use the free Yahoo Mail your best options are either to stop using your Yahoo address or to
upgrade to the paid version. You can upgrade here: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/enhancements/mailplus.
We are looking into ways of including free Yahoo Mail in the Easy-Email solution, so please visit our web site
www.Easy-Email.net for the latest news on this topic.
Are you waiting for an Easy-Email guide for a particular email client?
Do you want to know when the guide for calendar synchronization is ready?
Sign up for news and updates, and we will keep you informed.
We will only send you information related to Easy-Email and of course we treat your email address with
dignity.
3.5 FAQs
If you have any questions you can most likely find the answers at www.Easy-Email.net/faq
3.6 Forum
On our web site you will find a forum where you can post questions and find answers. We will answer
questions and provide help on the forum on a best effort basis. You can find the forum at www.Easy-
Email.net/forum
3.8 Feedback
We love getting feedback. We review all feedback and incorporate comments and suggestions to continue
improving our guides and website. Please click on the feedback link in the footer if you have any feedback or
testimonials to share.
Simply click the Email a friend link in the footer. Your default email client will be started and a pre-written
email will be presented to you.
All you need to do is add your friends' email addresses and enter your name... and of course you can modify
the text in the email before you send it.
The more people use Easy-Email the more guides we can develop for you ;-)
Note! Depending on your pdf reader you may see a “do you want to connect” box. Just choose Yes.
We strongly advise you to work from the latest release of the guides. We continuously improve the guides
and add new content. Go to www.Easy-Email.net/download and find the release date of the guide currently
available for download. Compare that to the release date of this guide (09 March 2010).
The Essential Guides show you how to synchronize one email address across all your computers and mobile
devices. With the Essential Guide you can try the solution and make sure it is right for you. And once you try
it we are sure you will be delighted with how easy your email life has become!
You'll see that the Essential Guide offers a powerful solution and a huge amount of value. We would love to
hear how much time it saves you!
If you have multiple email addresses the Advanced Guides offer the ultimate in efficient email management.
They show you how to set up email synchronization and how to manage all your email addresses from one
window with one login. Each email address has its own inbox and sent mail box. You can send business
email from Gmail and nobody will be able to tell it was not sent from the office.
In addition to the Essential and Advanced Guides for each client, there are Add-On Guides. If you use more
than one email client you will need the Essential or Advanced Guide for your primary email client and an
Add-On Guide for your secondary email client.
An example: You use Outlook 2003 as your main email client and you have Thunderbird on your netbook.
You want to setup both Email Synchronization and Multiple Email Addresses. You will need:
You only need one Guide and you can get as many Add Ons as you need.
The difference between the Essential Guides and the Advanced Guides are shown in the table below.
➢ Sent emails are stored everywhere no matter which computer they were
sent from
➢ Read and write emails on the bus, the plane and at your favorite café
using your netbook or laptop
➢ Access emails offline even if you use Gmail, Hotmail, AOL or Yahoo
Plus as your main email provider
Manage all your email addresses with one login from one window
➢ Work with all your email from all your email addresses on your mobile
device
Send email from your personalized email addresses, even when sent from
Gmail. No one will know they were not sent from the office!
Respond to an email and you automatically respond from the correct email
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address with the correct email signature
3 Some email clients have limitations. Our recommended solution uses free software and gives you all the benefits.
5 Getting Started
This section contains important information to help you get the job done smoothly.
Once you are comfortable that Easy-Email works for you, you can turn off the old way of getting your emails.
See Turn off your old email and stay with Easy-Email on page 82 and Turn off Easy-Email and stay with your
old email setup on page 83 for specific instructions on how to do this.
Gmail: walletpcuser1@gmail.com
This email address is mainly used for email synchronization.
Work: JohnDoe@pogo-card.com
This is John's work email address, and it has a mailbox attached.
Gmail needs to pick up the mail from the pogo-card mailbox.
Personal: JohnDoe@acango.com
This is John's personal email address and it is forwarded to the Gmail address, it does not have its
own mailbox.
Webmail: walletpcuser1@hotmail.com
This is a personal email address which John uses when he is away from his computers.
John wants each email address to have a separate Inbox and Sent Mail. And he wants to be able to manage
all his addresses from Windows Live Mail on his home computer, from Outlook Express on his netbook and
from Gmail when he is on the road without the netbook.
We will also change John's setup so his email is sent using the correct email address as sender. John will be
able to send an email from JohnDoe@pogo-card.com using Gmail and no one can tell it was not sent from
the office.
If you use other email clients than Thunderbird 3.0 please make sure you have downloaded the Add On
guides for those email clients too.
We have entered the details of our sample user (John Doe) in the table. This will make it easier for you to
'translate' from our example to your details when following the instructions.
If you do not know where to find the information please see Appendix: How to find the information you need
on page 140 for help.
If you do not have a Gmail address already create one now. Go to www.gmail.com and sign up. It is free.
➢ Those that have a mailbox attached. These are usually downloaded directly to your computer via
an email client. With Easy-Email they will be downloaded to the Gmail server.
➢ Those that simply forward emails to another address with a mailbox and do not have their own
mailbox.
➢ Webmail. These addresses are accessed via a web browser for example Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo.
With Easy-Email your webmail will be downloaded to the Gmail server.
For each email address with forwarding you need the following details:
For each email address with a mailbox you need the following details:
Email Synchronization
Easy-Email Essential Guide To Thunderbird 3.0
- Setting up Gmail for email synchronization -
At the end of the chapter you will find references to more information which is relevant for working with Gmail
and Easy-Email.
In this chapter:
➢ Transfer contacts and email from your webmail account to Gmail (page 35)
➢ Setup Gmail to download new email from your webmail account (page 41)
➢ Setup Gmail to download email from other email accounts (page 42)
Don't forget to back up your email! See Backup and restore your emails
on page 90 for instructions on how to do this.
Note: Easy-Email and Ayoro do not accept any resposibility for data loss under any
circumstances.
The next steps show you how to setup Easy-Email alongside your old
way of managing your email. When you are comfortable that everything
works the way you want, turn off the old way. See Turn off your old
email and stay with Easy-Email on page 82
Gmail can also transfer all of your contacts and email from another webmail account. Most webmail
providers are supported, such as Hotmail, Yahoo (both Plus and free!), and AOL. For the latest list of
supported email providers check here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?
hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=117173.
First we will transfer your contacts and email, then we will setup Gmail to automatically download new email
coming in to your webmail account.
Note! The steps in this guide are for Hotmail. If you use another webmail provider you will need to follow the
same steps.
6.2.1 Transfer contacts and email from your webmail account to Gmail
For John we will transfer from his Hotmail account to Gmail.
Gmail's Import mail and contact function does not transfer Sent Mail for some reason. To work around
this we create a new folder in Hotmail and move all the sent mail into that folder. Once the sent mail has
been transferred to Gmail we can move it back to the sent folder in Hotmail.
➢ Click New.
➢ Give the folder a name – for John we use Hotmail Sent Mail.
Click Save.
➢ Read the message and note that the process can take a while to complete.
You can continue with your email setup while this is going on in the background.
Click OK.
➢ Back in the main Gmail window you will be notified when the import has completed.
➢ Under the Send mail as heading, the hotmail address has automatically been setup, so we can
send email from Gmail using this email address.
➢ Once the Account Import has completed, go back to Hotmail and move the sent mails back to the
Sent folder.
Click Hotmail Sent Mail (or whatever name you gave your folder).
Click the check box below New to select all email in the folder.
Click Move to and select the Sent.
Note! If you have more sent emails than will fit on one screen you have to repeat the Move to.
6.2.2 Setup Gmail to download new email from your webmail account
We want Gmail to collect new email coming in to our old webmail account automatically, and download it to
our Gmail inbox.
➢ Under the Check mail using POP3 heading click Add POP3 email account.
POP3 or POP is short for Post Office Protocol and it is the feature that allows an email program to
download emails from a mail server. For an explanation of POP and IMAP see www.Easy-Email.net.
➢ Gmail will now check Hotmail for new email. Since this is the first time Gmail checks Hotmail this way
it will download all the email from the Hotmail inbox to your Gmail inbox. If you have many emails
this might take a while. This is actually repeating the import of email from the previous step for the
inbox only, but Gmail is smart enough for the emails only to appear once in Gmail.
Gmail will only collect new emails coming in to your inbox in your other
webmail account. If you have any filters set up that send incoming email
directly to a certain folder, bypassing the inbox, we recommend that you
disable these filters.
Note! For webmail accounts please follow the instructions in Setup Gmail to download emails from webmail
accounts on page 35.
➢ Click Add POP3 email account under the Check mail using POP3 heading.
POP3 or POP is short for Post Office Protocol and it is the feature that allows an email program to
download emails from a mail server. For an explanation of POP and IMAP see www.Easy-Email.net.
➢ You can allow Gmail to send email from the email address as well.
Leave the default setting of Yes selected.
Click Next.
➢ You have the option to send outgoing email via the mail server of your other email address or via
Gmail.
Leave the default setting selected which is to send through Gmail.
➢ A verification email is sent to your email address to ensure that it is in fact your address.
Click Send Verification.
➢ Since we have just configured Gmail to pick up email from pogo-card, the verification email will arrive
in the Gmail inbox.
For now close the window. We will verify the address using the email when it arrives.
Click Close Window.
➢ Gmail will now connect to your mail server and retrieve any new emails.
If this works your settings are correct.
➢ Successful connection.
➢ Click Check mail now to force Gmail to download the verification email now.
Note! If you do not receive the verification email in your Gmail inbox, the email has probably ended
up in the junk or spam folder of your other email account. Check your old email account, mark the
email from Gmail as not junk/spam and open the verification email from the inbox.
When you compose a new email it will be sent from the default address. You can choose a different
email address as you compose each email. You should set the address you most often want to send
new emails from as your default address.
When you reply to an email it will automatically be sent from the address it was sent to.
6.5 Summary
Gmail will now:
• on a regular basis download emails from your mailbox at your Internet Service Provider or Webmail
provider
• send mails as if you were sending them from your other addresses.
➢ Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients (recommended)
The All Mail folder in Gmail is your email archive. This is where your emails are stored when you
remove them from the Inbox unless you explicitly delete them. Typically you do not need to
synchronize this folder for offline use with other email clients.
This section explains how to hide the All Mail folder from your other email clients.
You can find many more tips and tricks on using Gmail and managing your email on the website: www.Easy-
Email.net
Thunderbird 3.0 works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux and is translated into many different languages.
The steps you need to take to configure Thunderbird 3.0 are the same though. The screenshots below are
from Windows Vista.
This chapter explains how to setup Thunderbird 3.0 for email synchronization. You will be guided through
modifying your existing accounts (if you have any) and configuring Thunderbird 3.0 to synchronize with
Gmail.
At this point you should have completed the setup of Gmail for email synchronization.
At the end of the chapter you will find references to more information which is relevant for working with
Thunderbird 3.0 and Easy-Email.
In this chapter:
• Create a new email account in Thunderbird 3.0 to access Gmail (page 55)
Important!
You can find instructions for how to do this in Backup and restore your emails on page 105.
Easy-Email does not accept responsibility for any data loss under any circumstance.
Note! These changes do not affect the way you manage your email today.
If you do not know whether your email account is POP or IMAP follow these steps:
Gmail is also downloading email from the same mailbox, so Thunderbird 3.0 will have to leave the email on
the mail server long enough for Gmail to get hold of a copy too. Gmail automatically checks your mailboxes
for new mail once every hour. If a new email arrives in your mailbox and Thunderbird 3.0 downloads and
removes the email from the mailbox before Gmail gets to it you will not see that email in Gmail and it will not
be synchronized with your other email clients.
This modification does not change the way your current email setup works.
Do the following for each Thunderbird 3.0 account that downloads email from a mailbox:
Unfortunately the way to do this depends on the IMAP server you are using.
In Gmail you would go to Settings → Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable Forward a copy of
incoming mail to.
Make sure you still keep a copy of incoming email as well. If there is no setting for this on your IMAP server it
will do this by default.
Note! If you have more than one email address, work with the email address you use most often. For John
Doe this is JohnDoe@pogo-card.com. Setting up multiple email addresses is explained in the Advanced
section of the guides.
➢ Start Thunderbird.
➢ If this is the first time you start Thunderbird the Mail Account Setup window will automatically
appear.
Skip the next two steps.
➢ For Your Name enter your name, for John that is John Doe.
For Email Address enter your Gmail address, which for John is walletpcuser1@gmail.com.
For Password enter your Gmail password.
Check Remember password.
Click Continue.
➢ Thunderbird automatically finds the correct settings for your email account.
Click Create Account.
➢ Note! If you already have other email accounts setup in Thunderbird 3.0 your Smart Folders will look
like this.
For more information on the Smart Folder layout see Smart Folders on page 71.
➢ In the Account Settings window click on your new account. The name is the same as your Gmail
address, so for John this is walletpcuser1@gmail.com.
Change the Account Name to My Mail IMAP.
Change the Email Address to your primary email address, for John this is JohnDoe@pogo-
card.com.
➢ Gmail's spam filter processes all incoming mail. We will tell Thunderbird's spam filter to work with
Gmail, so any messages flagged as spam by Thunderbird will be moved to the Spam folder in Gmail.
Click on Junk Settings.
Check Move new junk messages to:
Click on Other:
Click on My Mail IMAP → [Gmail] → Spam .
Note! The account name change we made above might first be effective after you close this
window, so My Mail IMAP might still be walletpcuser1@gmail.com.
When set correctly it should read: Spam on My Mail IMAP.
Click OK to close the Account Settings window.
Note! When you start using a new spam filter make sure you check the spam folder often until you
are comfortable that the spam filter works as you would like it to.
➢ There are a few other settings we can change in Thunderbird to make it work better with Gmail.
Select Tools → Options .
Thunderbird 3.0 creates a consolidated view of your Inboxes and Sent Mail mailboxes for all your email
accounts.
If you prefer you can still work with a traditional folder layout. Click the > next to Smart Folders and the
layout changes.
And that completes the setup of Thunderbird 3.0 for email synchronization.
In this chapter:
➢ Deleting messages and the Gmail All Mail folder (page 79)
➢ Using the Gmail Spam filter for all your messages (page 80)
➢ Why is my unread count different in my email client and on Gmail? (page 81)
➢ Turn off your old email and stay with Easy-Email (page 82)
➢ Turn off Easy-Email and stay with your old email setup (page 83)
All your emails will be stored on Gmail from now on. You can choose which emails to have a local copy of on
your computer(s) by adjusting the Synchronization Settings.
If you do not have many emails or if you have plenty of disk space on your computer you can safely
download all emails to each email client. This will be the case for most people.
When you download emails they will be available offline. So if you like to do your email on the bus in the
morning this is the way to go. Synchronize before you go to work and then you can read and reply to your
emails on the bus. Once you get an internet connection again your emails will automatically be synchronized
with Gmail. Easy!
If you have a large number of emails you can select certain folders to download for offline use. Some Wallet-
PCs and netbooks have limited disk space for instance.
Inbox All Messages Hmm... yes, you guessed it: your inbox
Sent Mail All Messages Sent Mail. Also very useful if you need to remind
yourself what you have told people.
Spam All Messages Why synchronize the spam folder? Because you want to
see if any real mails end up in the spam filter. It does
happen occasionally – even with the best spam filters!
Starred All Messages These are the messages marked with a flag or a star
because you want them to get special treatment.
Trash All Messages Useful to synchronize in case you ever need to pull
something back up from the trash can.
Personal folders All Messages These are the folders you create to organize your email.
You may not need to synchronize all folders on all email
clients. For instance you might leave out work folders on
your home computer.
In the guide for each email client we have described where to adjust the Synchronization Settings. For
Thunderbird 3.0 you can find the instructions in Download emails to Thunderbird 3.0 for offline use on page
115. For other email clients please see the corresponding documentation.
Don't Synchronize -> Do not download messages. You can only see the content of the folder in
Gmail.
All Messages -> Download all messages and their contents to the computer. You can then read
and respond to messages offline.
New Messages Only -> Only download messages arriving from now on.
Headers Only -> Only download the subject and sender information, not the message contents.
The contents can only be accessed when you are connected to the internet and will be downloaded
if you click on the message.
Tip! On Gmail you can hide the All Mail folder from your all of your email clients in one go. See Hide the All
Mail folder from other email clients on page 99 for more information.
Gmail works with the concept of labels. Labels correspond to folders on other email clients. When an email is
received, Gmail automatically labels it 'Inbox'.
When you read your email you might want to add another label, say 'Work' for example. Doing this will make
the message appear under both the Inbox and Work labels. In other words, an email can have more than
one label, which means it exists in more than one folder if you're comparing it to other email clients.
➢ Archiving a message basically just removes the Inbox label. The message still exists in the All Mail
folder and you can still search for it. It's a great way of cleaning up your Inbox.
➢ Deleting a message moves it to the Trash folder, where it will wait for 30 days before it is finally
deleted. This gives you some time to change your mind.
On an email client other than Gmail, pressing Delete will remove the email from the current folder. If an email
exists in more than one folder it will still appear in the other folders. In other words pressing Delete is the
same as archiving in Gmail.
If you do want to send an email to the trash can you may do so by dragging the email to the Trash folder
under [Gmail].
So the All Mail folder has a copy of every email you have sent or received – apart from the emails you have
sent to the trash can.
If you wish to access the All Mail folder offline you will need to synchronize it for offline use. However you will
most likely have all the messages you need in your Inbox, Sent Mail and your personal folders.
8.3 Using the Gmail Spam filter for all your messages
Since you are now receiving all your email messages through Gmail, their spam filter will automatically catch
any baddies coming in.
Gmail's spam filer is extremely good. Effectively this means you do not have to purchase a separate spam
filter. Once you decide to stay with Easy-Email you can turn off your email clients spam filter. You will find the
instructions for how to do this in the appendix if this is relevant for your preferred email client. This is only
relevant for some email clients, like Outlook and Windows Live Mail. For other email clients such as
Thunderbird this is not relevant.
If you occasionally do find a spam message in your Inbox you can mark the message as spam by dragging it
into the [Gmail]/Spam folder. Gmail will pick it up from there.
You should make a habit of regularly verifying that the emails in the [Gmail]/Spam are really spam messages
– every now and again a real email ends up in the spam folder. If this happens you can mark it as “not
spam” in Gmail and it will be moved back to your inbox. On your email client you can drag the message from
the spam folder to any other folder and it will also mark the message as “not spam”.
Tip! It is a good idea to save the email addresses of newsletters and mailing lists that you are expecting to
receive in your Contacts. That way Gmail recognizes them as wanted emails.
Fortunately it is easy to buy more Gmail space... in Gmail go to Settings → Accounts and Import →
Add additional storage for the details.
8.6 Turn off your old email and stay with Easy-Email
You need to:
For your webmail addresses we recommend that you still leave email on the server.
8.7 Turn off Easy-Email and stay with your old email setup
We would love to hear why you do not think Easy-Email is for you! Please send us an email at
feedback@easy-email.net and tell us what we can do to make this work better for you.
➢ If you are using Thunderbird 3.0 you can find the instructions for how to do this in Turn off an email
account on page 119. Otherwise please refer to the corresponding document for the email client you
are using.
➢ Remember to turn off all the accounts you might have created with Easy-Email, and ensure that your
old account is turned on.
9 Now what?
Now your email life is really simple!
You can access your work emails from home, your home emails from an internet cafe, your hotmail emails
from Outlook, your Outlook emails from Gmail.... it's brilliant! Have fun!
And don't forget to send us feedback or testimonials on how it's helped you in your life. Just click on the
feedback link in the footer. We review all feedback and incorporate comments and suggestions to improve
the quality of our products and website. Thanks!
How much is the Essential Guide worth to you? How much easier is your life after Easy-Email? Only you
know, so feel free to donate an amount of your choice to support the further development of Easy-Email.
You can also help by spreading the word to your friends. Click the link in the footer, and we will write the
email for you. Of course you can change the text before you send the email and you choose who to send the
email to.
9.2 Simplify your email life even further with the Advanced Guide
➢ Work with all your email addresses in one window with one login
◦ Work with all your email from all your email addresses on your mobile device
➢ Respond to email using the correct email address and signature automatically (most but not all email
clients, see known issues)
After John has completed the Easy-Email Advanced Guide his Gmail looks like this:
John has three separate inboxes for his Gmail address, work address and personal address. He can also
organize his emails in To Do and To Read sections. John is managing three different email addresses in one
window with one login.
Note! In most email clients the inboxes, sent mail and personalized folders are shown in list form.
With the Easy-Email Essential setup, sent email may appear as sent 'on behalf of' or with 'sender'
information depending on which email client the recipient is using.
The Advanced Guide shows you how to set up your sent email so that, even while working in Gmail, your
email is in fact sent via your own mail server!
10 Appendix: Gmail
This appendix has more information on Gmail and how it works with Easy-Email.
In this appendix:
➢ Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients (recommended) (page 99)
Important!
The method described here is the recommended way to backup your emails
when you have setup Easy-Email.
When you use a new method of backup for the first time it is important to verify
that you can restore your precious data again.
Consider creating a temporary Gmail account to test the backup and restore function.
There are a number of different backup programs available. And since we promised you did not have to buy
any software we will start with the free software first.
➢ Gmail Backup, which runs on both Windows and Linux, is our preferred option.
Get it here: www.gmail-backup.com
Note! Gmail-Backup has some limitations on label names. No special characters are allowed.
➢ If you have hidden your All Mail folder as described in Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients
on page 99 you should unhide it before you start the backup.
➢ When the download is complete install Gmail Backup by executing the downloaded file.
Follow the instructions and keep all default values.
Click Backup.
➢ Note! If you see the message below after you click Backup it is because your All Mail folder is
hidden.
Follow the instructions in Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients on page 99 to unhide the
folder before you start the backup
➢ Hide the All Mail folder again as described in Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients on page
99.
➢ Gmail Backup remembers your Gmail login and the name of the last backup file.
Enter your password.
Verify that the name of the backup file is correct.
Click Restore.
➢ Tip! You can backup from one Gmail account and restore to another Gmail account. This can be
useful if you want to test the restore function or if you want to move emails from one Gmail account
to another Gmail account.
10.2 Hide the All Mail folder from other email clients (recommended)
The All Mail folder in Gmail is your email archive. This is where your emails are stored when you remove
them from the Inbox unless you explicitly delete them.
Apart from when you want to backup your emails you have no need for this folder. That is, you do not need to
synchronize this folder for offline use.
The exception is if you are using Thunderbird 3, which has an archive feature that works with the Gmail All
Mail folder. If you wish to make use of that feature you need to enable the All Mail folder. Otherwise you will
not be able to access the archive from Thunderbird.
One option is to deselect the All Mail folder in your email clients when you configure them for email
synchronization. Instructions for this option are in the guides for each email program.
Another option is to hide the All Mail folder in Gmail. You just need to do this once and the folder will be
hidden in all email programs. Follow these steps:
Find the Advanced IMAP Controls lab feature and click Enable.
A new option has been added for each label: Show in IMAP.
For All Mail untick this option.
Now the All Mail folder will not be made available for download for offline usage.
Important! Before making a backup from Gmail you need to enable All Mails via IMAP again. Otherwise
you will not be backing up your email archive.
With some email clients you can automatically synchronize contacts with Gmail. This is true with Thunderbird
for example. Visit the web site www.Easy-Email.net for the latest information or see the documentation for
your preferred email client.
To Export your contacts, i.e. send them from Gmail to another email program:
First you export them from the other client, then you import them into Gmail.
With some email clients you can automatically synchronize contacts with Gmail. This is true with Thunderbird
for example. Visit the web site www.Easy-Email.net for the latest information or see the documentation for
your preferred email client.
To import contacts:
➢ Click on Settings.
In this appendix:
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Linux and Mac users can get advice on how to backup their emails in this article:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
Important! This way of backing up your emails is not suitable for IMAP. Once email synchronization is set
up you will need to use a different system of backup. Refer to Backup and restore your emails on page 90 for
instructions on how to backup your emails with Easy-Email.
➢ Click Next.
➢ Leave the default settings to backup emails, contacts and other settings.
Click Next.
➢ If you use this program you should consider making a donation here.
➢ Click Next.
➢ Leave the default settings to restore emails, contacts and other settings.
Click Next.
➢ If you use this program you should consider making a donation here.
Thunderbird 3.0 works as you are used to, however it will synchronize with Gmail instead of downloading
emails.
By default Thunderbird 3.0 will download a copy of your emails so you can work offline as well. This means
you will be able to read and respond to emails when you are on a plane or a train for instance. Once you get
an internet connection again your emails will be sent.
You can choose which emails to have a local copy of on your computer by adjusting the Synchronization
Settings. See Downloading emails for offline use on page 77 for a discussion of these settings.
Deselect any folder you do not need offline access to on your computer.
Note! In Gmail on the Settings → Labels tab you can uncheck Show in IMAP for the All Mail
folder. If you have done this the All Mail folder will not appear here.
If you wish to use the new Archive function in Thunderbird 3.0 you will need to check Show in
IMAP for the All Mail folder. Otherwise you will not be able to work with the archive in Thunderbird.
Click OK twice.
For the special folders (Inbox, Sent Items/Mail, Drafts, Trash, Spam and Starred) you have to select all the
emails in the folder and drag them to the corresponding folder under your new My Mail IMAP account.
If you want to copy emails to a folder with a different name you also need to select all the emails in the
original folder and drag them into the new folder.
For folders you have created yourself (i.e. not the Inbox etc.) you can copy them simply by dragging them
onto My Mail IMAP in the folder view.
In this context an email account is simply the settings in Thunderbird 3.0 you use for downloading your
emails. Turning off an account just means you will stop downloading emails the way you used to. You can
always come back at a later time and turn the account back on again should you wish to do so.
There are two types of accounts: IMAP and POP. Your old email account is most likely a POP account. In the
Account Settings window the IMAP accounts have a tab called Synchronisation & Storage, while POP
accounts have a tab called Disk Space.
➢ You can manually check mail on this account if you should wish to do so.
Click the little arrow next to Get Mail.
Click on your old account name.
Go to Tools → Add-ons
In the Search All Add-ons field enter zindus and press enter.
Then click Add to Thunderbird.
Click Add.
From now on your contacts are automatically synchronized with Gmail. No further action is required on your
part. Any contacts added or changed in Thunderbird will be updated in Gmail and any contacts added or
changed in Gmail will be updated in Thunderbird.
You can also toggle threads by clicking the thread symbol next to the star.
➢ Go to Tools → Add-ons
In the Search All Add-ons field enter Gmail Conversation and press enter.
Then click Add to Thunderbird.
➢ if it is a collapsed thread, that means you want to see the full conversation
➢ if it is an expanded thread, that means you want to see the individual messages
➢ if there is no thread, automatically fetch the conversation (can be disabled through the options. It is
on by default).
➢ if you want to see the conversation without collapsing the thread, add the button called View full
conversation to the main toolbar. Go to View → Toolbars → Customize... to add the button.
This button allows you to trigger the conversation view manually (or install customizeheadertoolbar
and add the even smaller button to the mail toolbar).
If you like this add on please consider making a contribution towards its continued development:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/54035.
Note! If you are not given any information about the port numbers and whether SSL is enabled or not
assume your settings are the same as for our sample user, John Doe.
In this appendix:
If you do not know where to find your settings see How to find your mail server settings on page 137.
Often the first result will have the information you need.
In this case there is no information for port number and SSL, so assume the port number is 110 and that SSL
is not enabled. This is a very common setup.
Look in the forum, and if you have no luck you can always post a question there.