Few days ago we showed you how to configure Gmail account in Microsoft Outlook to send and receive emails. Using the same IMAP protocol, you can also setup Yahoo Mail as well as Microsoft Outlook Online.

Setting up all your online email accounts locally allows you to access all of these different accounts from a single program pane. You will also be able to send and receive emails from all accounts directly from your desktop.

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to use Thunderbird, the default email program for Ubuntu to send and receive emails using your online email accounts. This can be applied to Gmail, Outlook online as well as Yahoo Mail.

Before you can make this work, you must turn on or enable IMAP in all three online accounts. You already know how to do it in Gmail. Now you must also do it in Yahoo Mail and Outlook online.

To learn how to enable IMAP in Gmail, read our previous post on configuring Gmail with Outlook.

To learn how to enable POP and IMAP in Outlook, sign into Microsoft Outlook and select 'Option –> More mail settings'

Next, click 'Connect devices and apps with POP' link. Then enable POP access and save.

That's how you enable POP and IMAP in Outlook. If you have Yahoo Mail, follow the same process in Yahoo Mail to enable IMAP. When you're done setting up your online accounts for remote access, sign on to Ubuntu and launch Thunderbird.

Enter your email account username and password and Thunderbird will attempt to automatically configure it. For Outlook account, if @outlook.com doesn't work, you may have to try @Hotmail.com to sign on.

To add the second email when Thunderbird is opened, click Edit from the menu bar and click Account Settings. At the bottom left, click Account Actions –> Add Mail Account.

Enjoy!

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As you may already know, Ubuntu comes with its own email client called Thunderbird that allows you to setup email accounts to send and receive emails. It also support IMAP protocol which services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Outlook support.

Thunderbird is a great email client and does everything an email client supposed to do, but if you're looking for an alternative that is lightweight and built around GNOME, then you may want to try Geary.

Geary  is a free email program that lets you quickly and effortlessly read emails with a simple interface based around conversations. The entire discuss is read from a single pane without you having to click from one message to another.

Geary also support IMAP protocol which will let you send and receive emails using your online webmail accounts from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

For users with Ubuntu 13.10, Geary is already available from Ubuntu Software Center. All they have to do is run the commands below to install Geary.

sudo apt-get install geary  

For previous versions of Ubuntu, press Ctrl – Alt – T on your keyboard to open the terminal. When opens, run the commands below to add its PPA repository.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa  

Next, run the commands below to update your system and install Geary.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install geary  

When you launch Geary the first time, it wants you to setup email accounts from Gmail, Yahoo or Microsoft.

The setup is pretty easy, just enter your account info and Geary will attempt to automatically configure your account.

To uninstall Geary, first remove its PPA repository from your system by running the commands below.

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:yorba/ppa  

Then run the commands below to remove Geary.

sudo apt-get remove geary  

That's it.

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