Instructions for configuring and setting up email with Thunderbird

TipsMake.com - As we all know, Thunderbird is currently one of the best, popular and popular email client applications today . In the tutorial article below, we will show you a step-by-step configuration and email setup using Thunderbird with a few simple steps.

With Gmail and Google-based email services:

First, download and install the latest version of ThunderBird here. After starting, the main interface of the application will look like this:

Our task here is to declare the username and email address, for example, here is Nguyen Van A and abc@gmail.com:

After clicking Continue , ThunderBird will automatically set the specifications to match the email address entered.

Click Create Account to create an account:

If you need to change the specifications, select Tools> Account Settings as shown below:

To know more about Google 's email service, please refer directly here, in which the information to note is:

- POP3 mail server protocol requires SSL : pop.gmail.com with port 995 .

- SMTP mail server protocol requires TLS3 or SSL : smtp.gmail.com and port TLS / STARTTLS is 587 , and SSL port is 466 .

- Email address is in the form of: abc@gmail.com or abc@domain.com

However, with Yahoo's email service, there is currently no optimal configuration to send and receive email through Thunderbird. However, you can still try to do the following.

- Download and install YPOPs! here.

- Then select Tools> Account Settings . in ThunderBird .

- Click Add Account ., select Email account and click Continue to continue.

- enter your name in the Your Name section, adjust the Yahoo email address (example@yahoo.com, for example) in the Email Address section and click Continue .

- Make sure you select the POP section in Select the type of incoming server you are using, enter localhost or 127.0.0.1 in the Incoming Server section . Click Continue .

- Enter the Yahoo account name in the Incoming User Name section (example is example), Mozilla ThunderBird will normally fill in this section for you, click Continue .

- Create a new Yahoo account name here in the Account Name section (eg Yahoo! Mail ), then click Continue and Done .

To ensure that we can send and receive Yahoo email, select the Outgoing Server (SMTP) section in the list of accounts in the window shown on the left, click the Add button and type localhost or 127.0.0.1 in the section. Server Name . Check in the Use name and password box , enter your Yahoo! Mail under User Name section then click OK . Select the Yahoo! Mail created earlier, select localhost in Outgoing Server (SMTP) section and click OK to complete this process.

Click the Get Mails button to receive the email, then try sending an email to check the Sent feature. Good luck!