Set Up Email in Thunderbird

Instructions given below will guide you through setting up email in Thunderbird, a free email client software.

Once you first launch Thunderbird, you will get a pop up window to put your name, email address and email account password.

If you are setting up a second account just go to

Tools > Accounts settings

On the very bottom of the window you will see Account Actions button.

Click it and choose Add new account from the drop down list.

Thunderbird – add new account

Click ‘Continue’ for Thunderbird to fetch email settings automatically.
However we’ll need to edit automatic settings.

• Make sure that you have full email address as username (including @domain.com)

• Port numbers must be

POP3: 110
IMAP: 143
SMTP: 25 or 26

• Incoming and Outgoing Mail server: domain.com

No http://www. must be used; mail. prefix can be omitted

• Choose POP3 if you want to download emails to your computer

• Choose IMAP if you want them to stay on the server

Thunderbird – incoming and outgoing mail settings

Hit Re-test Configuration or proceed to manual setup

Thunderbird – test configuration

It is recommended to check Incoming Mail Server settings

Thunderbird – check incoming mail settings

And Outgoing Mail Server settings

Thunderbird – check outgoing mail settings

Authentication should be set to password; username must be full email address (including @domain.com). Port number: 25 or 26.

Thunderbird – SMTP settings