Mozilla Thunderbird is the preinstalled email client application on Ubuntu. Using this application, an Ubuntu user can read emails coming into his or her mail inbox. We will explain it in a step-by-step manner as usual based on our OS version 24.04 "Noble Numbat". Now let's learn and start the exercise!

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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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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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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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