Setup Email Client.
Why? MR8 allows you to simply email Invoices, Standard Letters, Error Reports and Email Steve Week files etc. simply and often at the click of a button. Stop wasting money on stamps.
Setting up an Email Client upto now has been complicated, requiring detailed information about your email address and servers etc.
With the introduction of IMAP it now is very easy to setup an email client even for web based mail systems such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Web Outlook etc.
Please follow these instructions:-.
First Step.
Download Thunderbird Then open the downloads folder and run the installer.
Step Two.
Run Thunderbird.
At the top left corner of the Thunderbird window you will see a button with three horizontal bars - right click this button then left click Menu Bar it should be ticked!
Click on Tools—>Account Settings. The account settings window will be opened and at the bottom left you can click on Account Actions—>Add Mail Account. which will take you to the Mail Account Setup.
Enter your Name (or Business Name), email address and password. Then click Continue.
If you have a Gmail account it may now tell you the process has failed. DONOT leave this page just leave it in its current state.
Step Three.
If the last step failed, log into your email account in the usual way using a browser. Check to see if you have received a warning email like this:-
Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked
Hi Steve,
We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account [milk...@gmail.com].
If this was you
You can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or
change your settings at
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards.
Click this link then click Turn On.
Step Four.
Go back to the window showing Mail Account Setup. Click Done to try again. It should pass this time.
If that was successful you now have an email client and should be able to send emails from MR8.
Step Five - Try It.
In MR8/DR8 highlight a customer in the scrolling list - click on Customer Details enter your email address. Save the customer then come back into Customer Details, click the Email Cust button, fill in Subject and Body of the email with some text - then click Send. Then check your email. Did you get the Email???
Let me know how you get on!.
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