The following screen shots show setting up Thunderbird to download your mail from Google. Under Tools, choose Account Settings ...
Here you see we have an existing Verizon account (current ISP). Click on Add Account.
Choose Email account and then Next.
Enter your name. Try to make it something people will recognize, so your messages are not confused with spam. Use upper and lower case so it looks good--it's what appears in the From field when people receive your eMail. You can even put in something like "John Jones at KGC" in the your name field. Next enter your @KGC.cc Email address. You can use either your username or your nickname, but be consistent ... only use one; use it here and only give people that address.
On the next screen, choose POP, enter "pop.gmail.com" as the incoming server. Check Use Global Inbox. (Hopefully this option was checked for your current ISP account, if so all your mail coming to both accounts will end up in the same place.)
For Incoming User Name, use your full @KGC.cc address. You can use your nickname here. In fact you might as well be consistent and use the same addresses on the two screens below ...
It will probably fill it in for you automatically on the next screen ...
Now just click Finish ... (but you're not really finished).
Back in Account Settings, go to the Server Settings tab under your new account. (Note that there is a Server Settings tab for each account.) Click on the SSL button.
This should change the port number to 995, if not fill in 995 yourself. Do NOT check use secure authecation. Most people "Check for new messages at startup" (if not you have to click the Get Mail icon). On a dial-up line I tend NOT to check for new messages every 10 minutes (with a DSL or cable connection I would check this box). You SHOULD check the next box, "Download messages new automatically" ...
Now go back to the Account Settings tab for your current ISP. Make sure you the Your Name and Email Address fields are exactly the same as the are for your new account, if not, make them the same ...
Double check the settings for your new account ...
If you're setting up a desktop machine that always connects to the internet through the same ISP, YOU'RE DONE. However, you'll note above (highlighted) that the new account is using the current ISP's Outgoing Server. If you're setting up a laptop I recommend you change the Outgoing Server for your new account. This is especially important if you want to use wireless connections. By setting up your new account to use Gmail's Outgoing Server, you can send eMail from anywhere.
Go to the Outgoing Server tab and click on the Add button ...
Enter your full @KGC.cc address in both the Description and User Name fields, the Server Name is "smtp.gmail.com". Click on the SSL button and that should change the port number to "465", if it doesn't fill it in manually ...
You can make this the default Outgoing Server by clicking on the Set Default Button ...
But this doesn't make it the Outgoing Server for the account you just setup.
Go back to the Account Setting tab for your new account and change the Outgoing Server pull-down. You can either choose a particular server like I did below, or an even better choice would probably be to choose "Use Default Server".
If you want to make this account your Default account (the one used for writing Emails, highlight the new account in the left column and press the Set Default button.
You notice your new account jumps to the top of the list.
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