Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Modify Message Settings
This document contains instructions on using a non-Microsoft email client, such as Apple Mail or Thunderbird. Microsoft does not recommend these clients for use with Office 365, and there are often significant limitations in client functionality as a result. Because of this, the DoIT Help Desk is only able to offer best effort support for these clients, and certain issues may require the use of a Microsoft client in order to be resolved. For more information on Office 365 client support, please see: Office 365 - Which clients/protocols will be supported?.Best Effort Support Only
In Thunderbird there are several settings you can change in messages. Follow the steps below.
- Open Thunderbird
- Click the Menu button next to the search bar (three horizontal lines)
- From the drop down menu, select Options (On a Mac, select Preferences).
- In the pop up menu, click on the Composition tab
- From this tab there are three options
- In General you can:
- Select how messages are forwarded
- Choose how often Thunderbird will save your drafts
- Choose whether or not you want a confirmation when using a keyboard shortcut to send a message
- Choose if you want Thunderbird to notify you if an attachment may be missing
- Set Keywords to watch for missing attachments
- Change your default text or background color
- Change the default format of your email
- Choose where Thunderbird looks for emails to autocomplete
- Turn off Automatically adding emails to Collected Addresses
- Have automatically added emails entered into an address book other than Collected Addresses
- Set Thunderbird to check spelling before sending
- Turn on or off Enable spell check as you type
- Change the default language
- Download additional dictionaries (not tested for Office 365 compatibility)