Setup new email account in Mozilla Thunderbird

You may watch the video tutorial or follow the step by step guide below to setup your account in Mozilla Thunderbird:


Thunderbird is a popular free email application developed by the popular Mozilla which also created the FireFox web browser.
You can download it via the link below.

https://www.thunderbird.net

Step by Step Guide

1. Start Thunderbird program.
2. On the top menu, goto Tools and select Account Settings.

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3. In "Accounts Settings", select Add Mail Account.

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4.Fill in the email address as below and click skip this and use my existing email.

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5. Fill in the settings below:

  • Your name: [YOUR FULL NAME]
  • Email address: [YOUR FULL EMAIL ADDRESS]
  • Password: [YOUR EMAIL PASSWORD]
  • Remember Password: YES (if you wish to save the email password)

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6.Click Manual Config and fill as below.

* Please replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain.

  • Incoming: select IMAP or POP
  • Incoming server hostname: mail.yourdomain.com
  • Port: 993 (IMAP) or 995 (POP)
  • SSL: YES
  • Authentication: Normal password
  • Outgoing server hostname: mail.yourdomain.com
  • Port: 465
  • SSL: YES
  • Authentication: Normal password
  • Username: [YOUR FULL EMAIL ADDRESS]


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5. Click Re-test to test the settings.

6. Click Done and then click Ok to complete the setup.

Note: IMAP will synchronise your email with the mail server and POP will download the emails to your computer and delete from the mail server.

* Please replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain.

Note: IMAP will synchronise your email with the mail server and POP will download the emails to your computer and delete from the mail server.

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