Group mailbox Thunderbird

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Click on the three dashes at the top right and then on "New account" and "Email" so that the following login screen appears.

Enter your desired name and the e-mail address of the group mailbox <e.g. gruppenpostfach@uni-kassel.de>. Leave the "Password" field blank.

As soon as the e-mail address of the group mailbox has been filled in, the "Set up manually" button appears.

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Complete the manual settings as follows:

  • Enter mail.uni-kassel.de as the host name for the incoming and outgoing mail server.
  • Enter your UniAccount followed by @uni-kassel.de as the user name in the incoming mail server. Then enter a backslash \ and enter the name of the group mailbox followed by @uni-kassel.de, e.g. < ukxxxxxx@uni-kassel.de\smxxxxxx@uni-kassel.de >.
  • Now delete the backslash and the e-mail address of the group mailbox in the outgoing mail server for the user name so that only your UniAccount followed by @uni-kassel.de remains (i.e. ukxxxxxx@uni-kassel.de).
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Then click on "Done" and enter the password of your UniAccount < ukxxxxxx > in the pop-up window. The group mailbox is now integrated.

After integrating the e-mail account, please check the correct folder assignment. To do this, click on "Account settings" in the top right-hand corner.

Now click on "Copies & folders".

Please check that the sent emails are stored in the "Sent items" folder on the @uni-kassel.de email account and change the settings if necessary.

Drafts should be stored in the "Drafts" folder on the @uni-kassel.de mail account . The templates should also be stored in the "Templates" folder on the @uni-kassel.de mail account.

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Next, check whether the deleted mails are also stored in the "Deleted items" folder on the @uni-kassel.de mail account.

To do this, please click on "Server settings" and look in the section "When deleting a message".

If not all folders are displayed, it is necessary to subscribe to the corresponding mailbox. To do this, right-click on the relevant mailbox and click on "Subscribe".

You can then subscribe to the subfolders of the mailbox, such as <Sent items>.

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