Mozilla 1.7 Configuration and Best Practices (Windows)

This document will cover how to configure Mozilla 1.7 ideally and optimally for your computer. It will also provide guidelines for best practices and offer various tips, tricks, and strategies to best utilize the features of Mozilla.

Basic Configuration

To configure Mozilla for IMAP or POP e-mail:

If you have recently installed Mozilla 1.7, and have not setup a mail account, the first time you click on the "Mail" button in the Mozilla toolbar, or try to use any mail function in Mozilla you will be presented with the "New Account Setup" wizard.

If you are not presented with this screen, launch Mozilla Mail (should be in the Mozilla 1.7 folder inside Program Files) and choose "Mail & Newsgroups Accounts Settings" from the "Edit" menu. Next, click the "Add Account" button. You will be presented with the "New Account Setup" wizard.

From this initial screen, with the "Email account" button checked, click on the "Next >" button. You will be taken to the "Identity" setup.

Enter your name and your Penn e-mail address. Click the "Next >" button. You will be taken to the "Server Information" setup.

You will need to decide whether you will use IMAP or POP to check your account. ISC generally recommends using IMAP, but most campus servers support both. If you would like more information on the differences between IMAP and POP please the team's document concerning that.

IMAP Instructions

Under the text "Enter the name of your incoming server" click on the IMAP button. Type in your mail server name in the box labeled "Incoming Server" using the table below.

If your e-mail address ends with	The IMAP server is
@dolphin.upenn.edu	dolphin.upenn.edu
@mail.med.upenn.edu	mail.med.upenn.edu
@pobox.upenn.edu	pobox.upenn.edu
@sas.upenn.edu	imap.sas.upenn.edu
@wharton.upenn.edu	post.wharton.upenn.edu

If your school's IMAP server is not listed, or you do not know what to enter here, check with your Local Support Provider (LSP), department, or School for help.

POP Instructions

Under the text "Enter the name of your incoming server" click on the POP button. Type in your mail server name in the box labeled "Incoming Server" using the table below.

If your school's POP server is not listed, or you do not know what to enter here, check with your Local Support Provider (LSP), department, or School for help.

See the "Optional Advanced Settings" for instructions on how to keep mail on the server for a predetermined amount of time, and other settings relating to POP configurations.

Once you've entered the appropriate IMAP or POP server information, click Next, and type in your SMTP server name in the box labeled "Outgoing Server". If you are not sure which SMTP server your should be using, check the following table.

Note: If you are using an Internet Service Provider (ISP) other than Penn (for example, UPHS, DCANet, Earthlink, Verizon DSL, Comcast cable modem, etc) to connect to your Penn email account, you will have different SMTP servers than those listed for Penn. Follow the instructions in the document "Sending E-mail: Selecting & Configuring Your SMTP Server."

Once you have entered your SMTP server information, click the "Next >" button. You will be taken to the "User Name" setup.

Type in your Penn user name. Your user name is the first part of your e-mail address that comes before the @. For example, if your e-mail address is your_account@your_Penn_server your username would be "your_account". Click on the "Next >" button. You will be taken to the "Account Name" setup.

Type in the name by which you would like to refer to this account. For example, if this is your Penn e-mail your can refer to it as "Penn Account".

Once you have entered the name for this account, click on the "Next >" button. You will be taken to the summary screen for this setup.

Check and make sure that everything is correct, and when you're done click "Finish".

Once you have finished the initial setup, click "Ok" on the "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" window and you will be able to view your mail. You will be asked to enter the password for your account, and you can decide whether or not you would like Mozilla to remember this password by clicking the "Use Password Manager to remember this password" checkbox.

Junk Mail Settings

Optional Settings

Mozilla has many other options that are not available during the initial account setup. To access these settings go to the "Edit" menu and choose "Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings".

Here you will find all the settings you entered previously, as well as some other settings that you might not have had access to during the initial setup.

Handling Deleted Messsages

If you're using IMAP, messages that you delete may stay in your account until they are expunged or purged (In Mozilla you can choose "Compact Folders" from the "File" menu). You can adjust how Mozilla handles these options by clicking on the "Server Settings" options in the "Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings".

While the default setting for deleting messages is to move deleted messages to the trash folder, we recommend that you either set Mozilla to "Mark it as deleted" or to "Remove it immediately". The default setting "Move it to the Trash folder" may cause problems if you ever run over your disk quota.

Also, clicking on the "Empty Trash on Exit" and "Clean up ('Expunge') Inbox on Exit" in the "Server Settings" section will automatically remove your deleted messages when you quit Mozilla.

If you plan on checking your mail from multiple locations, you should set Mozilla to leave your mail on the server.

Secure Connections:

If your incoming mail server supports SSL, you can enable this in the "Server Settings" section of your account by clicking the "Use secure connection (SSL)" button.