How to Set Up an Email Account in Thunderbird

How To Set Up An Email Account In Thunderbird

Steps to configure an email address in the Thunderbird application:

1- Click on “Set up an account: Email”.

 

2- Enter the account name followed by the email address to be configured and the password.

 

3- Click on “Manual config” to configure the remaining settings:

 

4- The incoming IMAP port should be 993 with SSL/TLS encryption and authentication left on Autodetect.

The outgoing SMTP port should be 465 with SSL/TLS encryption and authentication left on Autodetect.

Choose the hostname as “mail.yourdomain.extension”.

The username in both cases should be the email address in question.