Access a Gmail Account with Mozilla Thunderbird
Make sure POP access is turned on for your Gmail account.
Select Tools | Account Settings… from the menu.>>Click Add Account….>>Make sure Email account is selected.
Type your name under Your Name:.>>Enter your Gmail address under Email Address:.
Make sure POP is selected under Select the type of incoming server you are using..>>Type “pop.gmail.com” under Incoming Server:.
Enter your full email address (“john.john@gmail.com”, for example) under Incoming User Name:. (You’ll just have to append “@gmail.com” to what Mozilla Thunderbird has already entered for you.)
Give the Gmail account a name (something like “Gmail”, for example) under Account Name:.
Now click Done.
Highlight Server Settings under the new Gmail account.
Make sure SSL is selected under Use secure connection.
Highlight Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the list of account on the left。>>Click Add….>>Type “smtp.gmail.com” under Server Name:.>>Type “587″ under Port:.>> Type your Gmail address under User Name:.>> Select TLS under Use secure connection:.
Access a Hotmail Account with Mozilla Thunderbird
Setup
I’ll assume you have installed the WebMail extension and at least one of the optional components, if you haven’t please do so.
The first step is to check the WebMail extension is running. Go to the WebMail options, on the server panel the status of the three servers is displayed. The status for the enabled server(s) should be “Running”. If the WebMail extension fails to start this could be due to the operating system blocking ports below 1024, try setting the port to value higher than 1024 and restart Thunderbird.
Check you have installed the necessary domain handlers. Go to WebMail options, on the domains panel is a list of supported domains.
POP Account Creation
From the main menu select File->New->Account.
In the Account wizard select “Email Account”
On the Identity page set your name and email address.
Enter the following server information.
Server Type : POP
Incoming Server : localhost
The user name MUST include the domain
Follow the new account wizard to the end
If you changed the port number during the WebMail setup stage you must change the port number for this account in “Account Settings” (tools menu).
SMTP Account Creation
Open “Account settings”, select the “Outgoing server” option from the tree and press the “Add Account” button.
Use the following server details.
Server Name : localhost
User Name : username@domain
I cant find how to change the outgoing server details. I chose add account and it goes through the same process without being able to change outgoing server
What are the server names?
for both incoming and outcomming
hotmail that is
i’ve done everything it says, and i don’t get my email from either of them :/
Yes, I found it didn’t work for hotmail, although I successfully went through it several months ago.
Gmail works well.
Bad info about the incoming server.
What is the local host? Hotmail? What do I type exactly?
Choose hotmail live (new website) under the webmail – hotmail add on. Hot mail works great.
Looks great for hotmail
Dear sir,
pls give me a incoming,outgoing sever number. we will configure my mail to mozilla thunder bird
regards,
manic
Hi,
I’m trying to setup hotmail (now it has become windows live mail) in mozilla thunderbird 2.0. But even though I tried what you’ve told I can’t.
It asks for port number for both outgoing and incoming servers. What number are they? And shouls the connection be TL, SSL or not secured at all.
Finally, how to Choose hotmail live (new website) under the webmail – hotmail add on. The hotmail live option is not there at all. If I’ve to create one, how is it?
I was able to make some IMAP email servers and GMAIL compatible with Mozilla, but not hotmail. Please Help. Thank you.
Hello again,
Just to update on my problem. I’ve choosen the hotmail live option under te add-on. But I get this error message.
“Sending of password did not succed. Mail server localhost responded: negative vibes from egalois1729@hotmail.com”
Please help. Thanks.
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH! I’d been trying to check my hotmail emails using Thunderbird for a few days (I’m a new user) and your tutorial really helped. Thanks a lot!
Note: For Yahoo mail also follow the same instructions given above for Hotmail.
Thank you so much! I was looking for hours on how to do this! Cheers.