How To Use Thunderbird

I just got thunderbird,for the second time and is still dont know how to make it work,i have no idea what i have to put on the POP3 and SMT thingys,so can anny one help me plzz.

here is my e-mail:[email protected]

-thx

 

No one knows =p, I've asked them several times and no help -.- plus I'm using router so that makes it suck even more.

 

;( aiight man

 

Maybe we'll be lucky and some new guy sees the thread and helps =p you can always hope =D

 

yep yep lets hope B)

 

well i can help sorta

first u guys have to see what your email is if its pop or imap

and see the account settings some where in there it shoudl say what it is

 

And how do you find out? I use gmail and hotmail..

 

from my knowledge u cant use hotmail with thunderbird

but gmail u can

go here

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer....en&answer=12103

and it has a tut on how to set it up

 

Eh.. the only reason I want to use thunderbird is to read hotmail/gmail emails at same time..

 

Dont use thunderbird. Way too hard. I tried it once and took me about 3 hours to figure it out.

 

Yes. But when you get it done. Its teh sexness. :shaggy:

 

first of all, you can't use hotmail with thunderbird/outlook unless you pay a subscription. to configure thunderbird to a gmail account follow the steps below

1. open thunderbird, click on tools, then scroll down to account settings.

2.if there is any accounts already stored in the window that pops up (they will be in bold) delete them, as they are presumably a mis configuration if it doesn't work for you

3.click the add new button and in the wndow that pops up select email account

4.click next and enter the name you want to be shown in the "From" section of your sent mail, and enter your email address

5.click next and if your using it for gmail select POP (hotmail is probably the same) and for the server name put pop.gmail.com and tick the global inbox checkbox

6.enter your Full email address as the incoming username.

e.g if your username was 123 on a gmail account enter [email protected]

7. enter what you would like to call your account on thunderbird (e.g my mail)

8. the wizard should now close, expand the key by clicking the + symbol next to the account you just created (the only one in bold)

9.click on the server settings option and make sure the server name is pop.gmail.com (if you are using gmail ) and the port number is 995

10. go down to SMTP settings and make sure the server name is smtp.gmail.com and the port is 587

11. check the use name & password box and the username should be your full email address

12.on the use secure connection section below what you just entered make sure that TLS is selected.

13.click ok then on the mail window click the get mail button and your good to go

I hope this helped, if you have any more problems add my msn and I should be able to sort things out for you


IF YOU ARE TRYING TO USE THUNDERBIRD TO GET EMAIL FROM YOUR PLACE OF WORK, MAKE SURE THEY USE POP AND NOT MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVER, IF THEY DO USE OUTLOOK 2003 AS THUNDERBIRD DOES NOT SUPPORT EXCHANGE

 

So basically use thunderbird only for emails that can accept it

and if your emial provider doesnt do that well then your out of luck

 

ops,been with out internet >_< missed the whole discussion,annyways annyone knows how to configure it for comcast? plz

 

comcasts settings are presumably the same as gmail, but with different pop and smtp server names n ports n stuffs