Send and Receive emails with Thunderbird in Ubuntu Linux

Thunderbird is a lightweight mail/news/RSS client, based on the Mozilla suite. It supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail), has an integrated learning Spam filter, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders. Also, more features can be added by installing extensions.
Install Thunderbird
You can get thunderbird from Applications->Add/Remove.Just search this application and mark to install.

Or,you can download from this page.

Launch thunderbird from Applications->Internet->Mozilla Thunderbird Mail/News.When you first start it,you’ll get this window for a new account.

In its main window,choose an account and input the password(tick the checkbox,so you won’t input this again).Select read/write messages at right:

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