Archive for November, 2012
How to set up an email account in Thunderbird
Nov 12 12
The following instructions are for setting up your domain’s email address in Mozilla Thunderbird:
1. In Thunderbird, go to the Tools menu and then select Account Settings. Then go to Account Actions and click on Add Mail Account:
2. Enter your name email address and password and click on Continue.
3. Click on Manual Config to enter your own server details:
3. Choose pop or imap and enter the incoming mailserver details which will be mail.your-name-here.co.uk (obviously replace your-name-here.co.uk with your actual domain name).
The port numbers are 110 for the incoming mailserver and 25 for the outgoing mailserver.
You should choose Normal Password to authenticate the servers
The username will be the full email address you are setting up.
Then click on Done and your account will then be added to Thunderbird.