Setup in Thunderbird

Setting up your email with Mozilla Thunderbird

Open Mozilla Thunderbird.

Click Tools or click the Application menu button. Application menu button

Select Account Settings.

At the bottom of the left pane, click Account Actions.

Account Actions

Select Add Mail Account.

Add Mail Account

Enter your email account details and press Continue.

Your Name: How you want your name to appear in emails (example: Jane Test)

Username/Email Address: Your full email address (example: test@example.com)

Password: Your email password

Remember password: We recommend that you keep this checked

enter email account information

Press Manual Configuration and edit the server names, ports, and IMAP/POP to manually set up the account. IMAP synchronizes the email on your computer with the contents of your account on the server, while POP simply downloads the inbox.

Fill in the following information depending on the incoming protocol you chose:

POP

Outgoing Authentication: We recommend Normal password

Outgoing SSL: Your preference. If you choose SSL/TLS, change the Outgoing Port to 465

Outgoing Port: 587

Outgoing Server Hostname: smtp.mydomain.com

Incoming Authentication: We recommend Normal password.

Incoming SSL: Your preference. If you choose SSL/TLS, change Incoming Port to 995.

Incoming Port: 110

Incoming Server Hostname: pop.mydomain.com

Incoming (Type): POP

Password: Your mailbox password

Username/Email Address: Your full email address (example: test@example.com)

Your Name: How you want your name to appear in emails (example: Jane Test)

POP settings

IMAP

Your Name: How you want your name to appear in emails (example: Jane Test)

Username/Email Address: Your full email address (example: test@example.com)

Password: Your email password

Incoming (Type): IMAP

Incoming Server Hostname: imap.mydomain.com

Incoming Port: 143

Incoming SSL: Your preference. If you choose SSL/TLS, have the incoming server, and port reflects their appropriate SSL settings.

Incoming Authentication: We recommend Normal password.

Outgoing Server Hostname: smtp.mydomain.com

Outgoing Port: 587

Outgoing SSL: Your preference. If you choose SSL/TLS, have the outgoing server, and port reflects their appropriate SSL settings.

Outgoing Authentication: We recommend Normal passwordIMAP settings

Click Create Account.

Wait for the mail client to finish verifying the email settings. 

Additional optional settings are available to further personalize your Thunderbird email client. Please refer to Thunderbird's support site for help with these settings.