Certain staff members occasionally need to send mail which appears to come from another email address. There are two basic reasons one may wish to do this:

1. You would like to send email as a different individual but would like the recipient to reply to you.
2. You would like to send email from a group mail alias and would like the recipient to reply to that alias.

Please note that you are required to obtain permission before sending mail as another person.

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Create and Configure Account or Identity

Thunderbird 16 and 17

1. From your main Thunderbird account, pull down your "Tools" menu and select "Account Settings."
   If your menu options are missing, right-click on the blue bar at the top of the window and select "Menu bar."
2. In the right-side pane of the "Accout Settings" window, click the "Manage Identities" button on the bottom right.
3. Click the "Add" button.
4. Press the various tabs of the "Identity Settings" window and configure the account as you wish. If you would like to receive the replies to any messages you send from this identity, be sure to put your full email address in the "Reply-to Address" field under the "Settings" tab.
5. Click "OK" then "Close" then "OK."

Thunderbird 13

1. From your main Thunderbird account, pull down your "Tools" menu and select "Account Settings."
2. At the bottom of the right-side pane, click on the "Manage Identities" button.
3. In the "Identities for..." dialog box, click the "Add" button.
4. Fill out the fields in the "Settings" tab and click "OK" then close the "Identities for..." dialog box. Click "OK" to exit Account Settings.

Thunderbird 3

1. Pull down the Tools menu and select Account Settings...
2. At the bottom of the left-side column, click the Add Mail Account... button
3. In the Mail Account Setup dialog box, type in full name and full EECS email address of the group or individual from whom the mail should appear to originate. Skip the "Password" field.
4. Click "Continue"
5. Click "Manual Setup"
6. In the left pane, select the new account. In the right pane, add your fully-qualified* email address in the "Reply-to Address" field, if you should be receiving the responses to mail sent from this account.
7. In the left pane, select "Server Settings" under the new account. In the right pane, uncheck "Check for new messages at startup"
8. In the left pane, select "Copies & Folders" under the new account. In the right pane, pull down the drop-down menus next to each checked radio button and select your own personal email address (login@eecs.berkeley.edu@calmail)
9. Remove all outgoing servers except the one configured for calmail and assigned to your personal email address @eecs.berkeley.edu

Thunderbird 2: Create Account

• Pull down the Tools menu and select Account Settings...
• At the bottom of the left-side column, click the Add Account... button
• In the "New Account Setup" dialog box, click Next
• In the "Identity" dialog box, type in the full name of the group or individual from whom the mail should appear to originate in the Your Name field.
• Place the fully-qualified* mail alias or person's fully-qualified email address in the Email Address field. Click Next
• In the "Server Information" dialog box, type foo.com in the Incoming Server field. Since you will not actually be reading someone else's email, you are creating a fake incoming server for this account. Click Next
• In the "User Names" dialog box, click Next to accept the default Incoming User Name.
• In the "Account Name" dialog box, click Next to accept the default Account Name.
• In the "Congratulations!" dialog box click Finish

Thunderbird 2: Configure Account

Back in the "Account Settings" window:

• In the left-side pane, click once on the new account name that you just created.
• If you would like the responses to these messages to come back only to you:
  In the right-side pane, put your own fully-qualified*a email address in the Reply-to Address field. This step is not necessary if you are sending mail as a group alias.
• If you would like to create a personalized signature for these emails you can do that here as well.
• In the left-side pane, click once on Server Settings (which should be located right below the account name. If you don't see it, click the little plus sign to the left of the account name.)
• In the right pane, uncheck the box titled Check for new messages every...minutes. None of the boxes in the "Server Settings" section should be checked.
• In the left pane, click once on Copies & Folders.
• In the right pane, in the "When sending messages, automatically" section, pull down the drop-down menu next to "Sent" Folder on: and select your own account (e.g. maggie@imap). Do the same for the two drop down menus in the "Drafts and Templates" section.
• Click OK.

* Fully-qualified means, in this case, "written out completely," (e.g. gradadmissions@eecs.berkeley.edu)

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Send a Test Message

Back in your main Thunderbird window:

• Click on your Write icon to create a new message.
• Pull down the drop-down menu next to the From: field and select the new account that you just created.
• In the To: field type your own email address or the address of a coworker involved in the project. Put the word Test in the Subject: field and in the body of the message. Press Send
• Look in your Sent mailbox for the message to verify that everything is correct.

maggie@eecs
Wednesday, 27-Mar-2013 08:22:41 PDT