Setup email for thunderbird in Windows
Posted in support on 01/08/2010 04:42 pm by jwatson
- You can download the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird from this page:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird
After the download completes, double click on the executable. It will start the install process. If a window appears asking you if you want to run the program, click “run”. - You will see the intro screen to the installation proccess like so: simply click “next”
Installation intro screen
- Select Standard Install on the next screen and press next.
- Verify installation Location and click next
- Installation will proceed, make sure the “Launch Thunderbird” checkbox is checked and click finish to proceed.
- Now that the installation is complete, we can configure the email settings in the application. When thunderbird first starts up, you see this screen:
as you can see, I filled in my name, my email address and my password. press continue. Thunderbird will try and autodetect settings for you but we have to specify more information yet. Click continue.
Click Stop on this screen. We want to correct the information as follows. Click the Manual Setup button.
username is your supplied username for the system.
incoming: mailserver.morronimail.com , port 143, SSL/TLS
outgoing: smtpserver.morronimail.com, port 587, None
and the SMTP settings (which can be reached by clicking on outgoing smtp server on the left pane and then pressing “edit” or “add” if there is no selection
when you’re done with all the settings press ok and send yourself a test email. If you are prompted for your account password, enter it and select the box to remember the password. You’re set!