
If you've used Firefox, Thunderbird will be familiar to you, as the interfaces are similar – both are tabbed. Moments later, you have access to your mail account. Once entered, the email account set up wizardry will check our database and find the email settings for you. Now all you need to provide is your name, email address, and password. Prior to this feature being here, you had to know your IMAP, SMTP, and SSL/TLS settings. Mozilla Thunderbird's Mail Account Setup Wizard helps you quickly and easily setup access to your mail accounts. Thunderbird for Windows is one of the best email clients and it has all of the benefits of one of the best browsers in the world. Mozilla has one of the best compromises available. If you like the convenience of mail in the cloud but prefer a dedicated email client, then this one is for you. Spam) and click Subscribe or check the box next to the folder.Get access to your email with one of the easiest to use Windows apps available today.
Choose the folder that you want to subscribe to (e.g. From within Mozilla Thunderbird, click File then Subscribe. For the User Name type in your EGR username ( enter only your username WITHOUT and then click OK.Īdditional Configuration Folder Subscriptions Then change the Port: field from 25 to 587. Click on Server Settings under the account, then select the SSL radio button in the Security Settings box and check Clean up (Expunge) Inbox on Exit in the Server Settings box.ģ) In Account Settings click on Outgoing Server then select your engineering account and then click Edit. Both Incoming and Outgoing connections are authenticated with Normal Password.Ģ) Next, go to Account Settings in the Tools menu. SSL should be set to SSL/TLS for Incoming connections, and STARTTLS for Outgoing. For Port Numbers, Incoming should be set to 993 and Outgoing to 587. Choose IMAP for the incoming server and in both the "Incoming Server" and "Outgoing Server" text boxes enter.
Fill-in the information on the form and click Manual Config. **NOTE** These specific configuration settings are for addresses only.ġ) In "Account Settings" click on Add Account. If the auto-configuration of Thunderbird fails:
In "Account Settings" click on Account Actions > Add Mail Account. If you want to add a new or additional email account to Thunderbird: If configuration of the account fails, see below for troubleshooting tips.
Thunderbird should work out the details of the account. Fill-in the form with your name, full email address and password. A box appears with list of options, leave "Email" and "Always perform this check." checked if you want Thunderbird to be your default mail client. Launch Mozilla Thunderbird: Start > All Programs > Mozilla Thunderbird. If this is the first time Thunderbird has been run: Installation Mozilla Thunderbird is installed on all of the DECS Public Lab Windows machines.