Setup Thunderbird for Windows¶

Email account setup in Thunderbird (SMTP/IMAP/POP3)

Email clients, like Thunderbird, allow you to easily check your emails without Webmail (web-interface). This tutorial will help you to configure your Email accounts in Thunderbird.

Step 1. Go to File > New > Existing Mail Account

Step 2. In the Mail Account Setup window enter the following details:

• Your Name: the name you would like the recipients of your emails to see.
• E-Mail Address: your full Email address.
• Password: password for your Email account (Make sure you do not have blank spaces in it).

Once all the fields are filled, click Continue

Step 3. If setup fails for some reason (lack of autoconfig or autodiscovery setup being one, see here to set it up), please try to follow the steps from scratch or click on Manual Config to configure Thunderbird manually.

Step 4. Fill out the following details:

• Incoming: IMAP, Server hostname - example.mymailcheap.com (Use your own mailserver hostname instead of ‘example.mymailcheap.com’), Port - 993, SSL - SSL/TLS, Authentication - Normal password
• Incoming: POP3, Server hostname - example.mymailcheap.com (Use your own mailserver hostname instead of ‘example.mymailcheap.com’), Port - 995, SSL - SSL/TLS, Authentication - Normal password
• Outgoing: SMTP, Server hostname - example.mymailcheap.com (Use your own mailserver hostname instead of ‘example.mymailcheap.com’), Port - 587, SSL - STARTTLS, Authentication - Normal password

Step 5. Click Done to finish setting up Thunderbird.