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Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Send an email to a contact or personal group
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
This document will provide you step-by-step instructions on how to send an email to a contact or a group.
Important: The contacts you manage within Thunderbird are not saved to your Office 365 account. They can only be used within Thunderbird. Plus, any contacts you have created using a client that is connected via Exchange/Active Sync (Outlook | Apple Mail | Outlook Web App) cannot be accessed via Thunderbird.
Send an email to a contact- Open Thunderbird
- Select Write
- In the To field, begin typing the name of the contact you are emailing
- When you see Thunderbird automatically populate the field with your contact's name and email, hit the Return key
- Compose your email
- Select Send
- Open Thunderbird
- Select Write
- In the To field, begin typing the name of the list you want to email
- When you see Thunderbird automatically populate the field with the name of the list, hit the Return key
- Compose your email
- Select Send