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Email Setup in Mozilla Thunderbird for PC

This tutorial will show you how to setup your email account in Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free mail client option that we support use of for Windows users. 

You can download Thunderbird for free from Mozilla and begin using it immediately. 

At the time of this writing, the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird is 52.2.1, please make sure your software is updated to the latest version to ensure the screenshots below match.

Screenshots are for reference only. Please read the instructions at each step.

 

Determine Your Mail Server Address

You will use the mail server address for both incoming mail server and outgoing mail server settings when adding your email account to an Thunderbird. 

Step 1: Open a web browser on your computer and go to webmail.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name)
For example, if your email address is bob@xyzhealth.com, you would type in webmail.xyzhealth.com
Do not use a search box (from Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) or include http:// or https:// when entering the URL into the browser's address bar.

 

Step 2: You will automatically be redirected to your mail server.
Your mail server address is the first portion of the URL.
In this example, the mail server address is: mail.enguard.com

 

Step 3: Please write down your mail server address, you will need it to complete the steps below.

 

Adding a New account to Thunderbird

 

Step 4: Launch Thunderbird. Select Skip this and use my existing email

 

Step 5: Add account details for setup:

A) Enter your name, this will be the displayed on all outgoing messages (what recipients see).
B) Enter your email address
C) Enter your password

Click Continue

 

Step 6: Click Manual config

 

Step 7: Complete the following fields:

A) Enter your mail server address
B) Select 993
C) Enter your mail server address
D) Select 587
E) Enter your email address

Click Re-test

 

Step 8: Click Done

 

Step 9: Click into your Inbox and all your folders will begin to download from our webmail/server.

 

Step 10: Click the menu icon

 

Step 11: Select Options from the drop-down menu

 

Step 12: Select Account Settings

 

Step 13: Go into Junk Settings

Un-check: Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account

Click OK