Using Mozilla Thunderbird with Your Email
You can always use Web-Based Email to send and receive email messages. But you also can view your email with an email client. To access your email through Thunderbird™, add an account with the settings outlined below.
While these screen shots are from v3.0.1 on Windows XP, these settings are similar in other versions of Thunderbird.
BEFORE YOU START: To set up Mozilla Thunderbird with your email, you need to know your POP or IMAP Email Server Settings and ports. To find them, got to the InfoCenter and write down the information that displays under Email Server Settings.
To Use Mozilla Thunderbird with Your Email
- From the Tools menu, select Account Settings.
- From the Account Actions menu, select Add Mail Account.
- Complete the following fields, and then click Continue.
- Your name
- The name to display on your email
- Email address
- Your email address
- Password
- Your email account password
- Click Stop, complete the following fields, and then click Re-test Configuration:
- Username
- Enter your full email address.
- Incoming and Outgoing
- Enter your mail server, select the server type, enter your server port (detailed below), and select the encryption method.
- Server Port
- IMAP without SSL - 143
IMAP with SSL - 993
POP without SSL - 110
POP with SSL - 995
SMTP without SSL - one of the following: 25, 80, 3535
SMTP with SSL - 465
- Click Create Account.
- Click OK.
For information on changing an existing Thunderbird email account to use SSL, see Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to use a Secure Connection (SSL) for Email Messages.
For information on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird see Mozilla Messaging Support.
NOTE: As a courtesy, we provide information about how to use certain third-party products, but we do not endorse or directly support third-party products and we are not responsible for the functions or reliability of such products. Thunderbird™ is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All rights reserved.
