Set Up your Account on Thunderbird - PC
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Where to get Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a great Mail client developed by Mozilla, the makers of Mozilla Firefox. You can download Thunderbird for free from their [site]
This is a stand-alone piece of software, so you'll need to install this on your machine to use it. Once it's installed, you'll then need to configure Thunderbird to work with your Email at Hostbaby!
How to configure Thunderbird
Go to:
Tools > Account Settings
From here, you'll want to look to the bottom left to add a new mail account, like the screenshot below.
On the Mail Account Setup Screen
Fill in these fields with your name, Email address, and the password to your Email address. When you click on continue, Thunderbird will attempt to configure your EMail for you. The resulting page should look something like this:
While Thunderbird attempts to automatically configure your Email account, the settings they select won't work with our services. We will need to re-configure your incoming/outgoing mail servers manually to make sure your Email work properly.
You will first need to decide on how you want to access your Email; as an IMAP account, or a POP account. Each account type treats your Email on our servers a bit differntly, so you'll want to read up on the differences between the two account types. Hit the "Edit" link to the top right to change between an IMAP account or a POP account. We'll work with an IMAP account in this example.
Either way, you'll want to hit the "Manual Configuration" link to finish properly configuring your account.
From here, you'll want to hit "Server Setting" for your new account. You'll need to change:
- The server name : Just enter your domain name here
- The Username : You need your ENTIRE Email address here
- Authentication method - We strongly suggest SSL authentication to securely transmit your username/password. You can read more about the different ports required for standard or SSL authentication [HERE]
That will finish up your configuration for the INCOMING mail server. Now onto the Outgoing Mail Server:
Click on "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" Like the screenshot above shows. You should see your newly added outgoing mail server listed here. Be sure to select it, and set it as your "default" if you're going to primarily use our outgoing mail server. Once selected, hit "Edit" to finish configuring it.
- The "Description" field here is just for your identification purposes, feel free to name this whatever you like.
- The server name itself should just be the domain name you're using.
- Change security to SSL if it isn't already set that way.
- The username needs to be your entire Email address here as well.
Once you've made these adjustments, save your changes, and you should be able to check your Email now! You may run into a couple of prompts when checking mail, which will familiarize your Thunderbird installation with our servers.
You're likely to get prompted for your Email password when you first check your mail - enter your Email password here, and you can have Thunderbird save it for you (so this is a one time thing, unless you change your Email password)
You may get prompted with this security exception window. This is also a one-time exception you'll need to accept to allow Thunderbird to talk to our mail servers.
Once you've gone through all of these prompts - your Thunderbird mail client should be hooked up to your hosted Email account with HostBaby!
