SETTING UP THUNDERBIRD FOR IITK-WEBMAIL

Official guide available at cc site is somewhat outdated so I thought about making a new one here.

If you have got Thunderbird already installed on your system, than you can directly skip to Step 5

>>Step 1: First head over to Thunderbird  site and download the latest version of thunderbird for your system.

>>Step 2: Save the .exe file to a convenient location

>>Step 3: Open the downloaded file

It will first go to extracting and than start the installation procedure

>>Step 4:  Allow the file in UAC prompt and follow the onscreen instructions

 

>>Step 5: When you open Thunderbird for first time it ask for association with E-Mail and feeds just leave the settings as it is and click on "Set as Default"

Doing so will directly take you to thunderbird's compose mail screen on clicking on e-mail addresses. You can check that by clicking here after completing this configuration procedure.


>>Step 6: On next screen Thunderbird will offer you to create a new email address with some  of its associates just click on "Skip this and use my existing mail"

>>Step 7: Now Thunderbird will ask for your account details

fill in your name (this will be shown in from to the receiver instead of  your id), email address and password and click continue it will try to look online for server settings and will fail to do so then it will ask you to enter the server details manually.

or you can just click on "Manual config" to bring up the server settings


>>Step 8: Fill in the server settings as shown below and click Done

and if you are using some other mail client as Outlook or maybe something else the settings are same.
For incoming server:
                                type                   :  IMAP
                                hostname          :  newmailhost.cc.iitk.ac.in
                                port                   : 143
                                security             : normal/none (depending on client)
                                authentication   : normal password
and for outgoing server:
                                type                   : SMTP
                                hostname          :  smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in
                                port                   : 25
                                security             : normal/none (depending on client)
                                require login     : true/required (depending on client)
                                authentication   : normal password

>>Step 9: Now you will get a security warning about server not using encryption, just check in the box "I understand the risk" and click on Done

>>Step 10: Now your mails are also saved on you system for offline access.

For any problem while setting up your client, even if you are using anything other than Thunderbird, leave a comment.

HOW TO GET ALL YOUR WEBMAIL MESSAGES ON ANDROID

When opening your mail client for first time it will automatically ask your id and password.

>>Step 1: Just enter your web mail id and password and tap Manual setup

 

 >>Step 2: It will ask for type of account tap IMAP

>>Step 3: In the next screen it ask you to configure your Incoming server settings change the IMAP server to "newmailhost.cc.iik.ac.in" (without quotes) and tap Next

 

It will now show a loading screen saying "Checking incoming server settings"

And if you entered correct credentials it will take you to next screen to configure the outgoing server.


>>Step 4: In Outgoing server server settings change the SMTP server to "smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in" and change the port to "25" and tap Next

Now it will show a loading screen saying "Checking outgoing server settings"
And after checking it can connect to outgoing server it will ask for Account options


 >>Step 5:  Can just tap Next if you wish,

Here you can set your inbox checking frequency (time before it automatically check for new mails)
"Send  email from this account by default" useful if you have more than one account configured in the client.
"Notify me when email arrives" do you wish to be notified when someone loses his bag in library.
 

>>Step 6: "Account color" just ignore it and tap Next

Useful mainly if you are using multiple accounts. Shows a selected color column on left of mails in combined folder view, just as shown on the left of the folder icon.


>>Step 7: Final step
"Your name":  to change the name in from field of receiver instead of  your id.
"account name": again useful mainly for multiple account users

On pressing done it will start loading your inbox. And you no longer need to open browser  and enter the text shown in image every time you need to check your mail.

Note:
To access your drafts or sent mails click on menu and tap on Folders

Other settings like signature, ringtone, confirm on delete/send etc than can be changed by going account settings

If you face any problem while setting up your client leave a comment below for help.