After making your choice, hit the Done button. It will also give you the option to choose either IMAP or POP as the incoming mail protocol. Thunderbird will automatically look up and fill in the email provider’s outgoing and incoming mail server details.
On it, enter your name, full email address, and password. If this is the first time you open it after installation, the Set Up Your Existing Email Address page will pop up. This method is best for setting up a Gmail account or one from other popular email providers. Setting up Email in Mozilla Thunderbird Automatically Let’s start with the automatic account configuration.
The following tutorial will show you how to do so both automatically and manually. Once you have collected the necessary information, it’s time to set up your email account on Thunderbird. Make sure to note the outgoing server and incoming server details – you’ll need them to manually configure the custom email account.
There, select your domain name and navigate to Configuration Settings -> Manual Configuration to see the server names and ports. If you use a Hostinger email, you can locate the email IMAP, POP, and SMTP information by logging in to your hosting account and heading to Emails -> Email Accounts. These details will be necessary if you wish to add a custom email address to Thunderbird.
To add a Gmail or similar major email provider account to Thunderbird, you’ll only need the full email address and password as the platform can automatically determine its mail server configuration settings. Collecting Email Account Settingsīefore proceeding with the Thunderbird setup, you’ll have to collect some email configuration details. This article will go over the steps of setting up an email account on Thunderbird. Additionally, there are many add-on services available for Thunderbird to extend its functionality. With Thunderbird, users can access all of their incoming emails in one folder instead of going to the inbox of each mail account. It’s also one of the most popular email management platforms alongside Outlook. Thunderbird is an open-source email application developed by the Mozilla Foundation. If you are unable to send email, try exiting Thunderbird and then find your Mozilla Thunderbird directory in your Program Files directory and then right mouse click the Thunderbird.exe application and select Run as Administrator.Using a mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird is an excellent solution to easily manage multiple email accounts. Step 4 - Run Thunderbird as Administratorĭepending on your computers user account and the rights that your user has, you may need to ensure that you are launching Thunderbird as an Administrator.
We have included a file in a directory in your AccountEdge installation, where when moved to a new location, AccountEdge will know to disable MAPI-EX when sending email from AccountEdge.įor 2017 version and all versions after: Move the MapiEX Disable.txt file from C:\AccountEdgePro2017\MAPIEX Disabler folder to the C:\AccountEdgePro2017 folder.Įssentially you are moving this file from a sub folder directly into the folder that contains the AccountEdge.exe so that AccountEdge can find this file. If you receive an error message "MapiEX could not open the message store or outbox" you may need to manually disable Mapi-EX with use with AccountEdge. For some reason even if you set the default to be Thunderbird, it may not reset the default within Outlook and your system will continue to not find Thunderbird as the default. If you have Outlook or another email client installed, you may need to deselect Outlook from being your default mail client within Outlook. Step 2 - If you have Outlook Also Installed Under Options within Advanced you'll find a Check Now button that will check to see if this is set correctly. You can set this default within the Thunderbird Options window. AccountEdge will only send email through your systems default email client. In order to use Thunderbird for Windows and AccountEdge, you need to first ensure that Thunderbird is your default email client. Step 1 - Ensure Thunderbird is Your Default Email Client The following videos goes through the steps of setting up Thunderbird.Ĭonfiguring Thunderbird and Disabling MAPI-EX if Needed In order you configure Thunderbird to be used with AccountEdge, you may need to do the following below. AccountEdge will work with Outlook and Thunderbird and will send through either of them when they are set up as your default email client. Thunderbird is an open source email client which is a free alternative to Outlook.
Using the Thunderbird Email Client for WindowsĪccountEdge Pro 2017 and later support using Mozilla's Thunderbird for sending email from AccountEdge.