How to setup email account in Thunderbird

1. Open your Thunderbird application, click "Tools", then "Account Settings"

   

2. New window pop up as below, click the "Account Actions", and select "Add Mail Account"

   

   

3. Another "Mail Account Setup" window pop up

   

4. Enter all the required fields, and click "Continue"
   

   

   Your Name: Your Full Display Name
   Email address: Your email address, eg alex@yourdomain.com
   Password: Your account password

5. Click the "Stop" button while the system looking for your settings.

   

   Then manually enter the fields as below:
   Username: Your full email address (eg. alex@yourdomain.com)
   Incoming: Your incoming mail server (eg. mail.yourdomain.com), then POP, 110, and None for secure connection
   Outgoing: Your outgoing mail server (eg. mail.yourdomain.com), then SMTP, 587, and None for secure connection

   Then click "Manual Setup..." to continue

6. A summary of settings window pop up, enter your optional fields, such as "Reply-to address", "Organization", "Signature Text", etc.

   

7. Click on the "Server Settings", make sure "Server Name" is "mail.yourdomain.com", "Port" is 110, "User Name" is your full email address,

   

8. Click on the "Advanced..." button, and confirm the setting as "Inbox for this server's account", click "OK" to continue.

   

9. Click on the "Copies & Folders" tab, modify any necceasy options as described.

   

10. Click "Composition & Addressing" tab, tick the option - "Automatically quote the original message when replying", then, "start my reply above the quote", and place my signature (if you have defined one) as "below my reply(above the quote)"

    

11. Lastly, click "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" tab to configure the outgoing mail server.

    

12. Enter all the fields required.

    

    Description: A simple text description of this particular outgoing mail server setting
    Server Name: Your outgoing mail server name (eg. mail.yourdomain.com)
    Port: 587
    Tick "Use name and password" , and enter User Name: Your Full Email Address (eg. alex@yourdomain.com

    Click "OK" to continue

13. Click "OK" to finish, and now you are now ready to use your Thunderbird as your email client.