How to Set Up Thunderbird in Windows Vista

Mozilla Thunderbird is free e-mail client, which offers excellent way to customize your email to suit your specific needs with powerful security and privacy features. It supports POP and IMAP communication protocols. Before you can use Thunderbird, you need to configure Thunderbird to work with your email accounts. Your email must support either POP or IMAP. This article will show you how you can setup Thunderbird in Vista. In order to provide step by step procedure, I will setup thunderbird for Gmail IMAP account. (Gmail provides both POP and IMAP support.)

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Mozilla Thunderbird
• POP or IMAP emabled Email

1. 

   Before we can setup gmail account, you must enable POP and/or IMAP from gmail/Settings/Forward and POP/IMAP. And enable POP and IMAP. And save changes.

2. 

   Open Mozilla Thunderbird. Go to Files and Click on Account. (If you don't have thunderbird, you can download it from the direct link in the resource section of this article.)

3. 

   Click on Email account. Go Next.

4. 

   Enter you name and email address. Click Next.

5. 

   Click IMAP. Type in 'imap.gmail.com'. Click Next. (If you have POP, you can take that route. I am going to show IMAP setup.)

6. 

   Type your user name and click Next.

7. 

   Type account name. And click Next.

8. 

   Click Finish.

9. Now, go to Tools and click 'Account Settings'.

10. 

    Go to your email account. And click 'Server Settings'. Type Port number '993'. And click on SSL in use secure connection.

11. 

    Now, go to 'Outgoing Server (SMTP)'. Click on 'Add'. Type 'smtp.gmail.com' in server name, port '587' and your user name and click on TLS in user secure connection and Click OK.

12. 

    Make sure that your email account, outgoing server is set to your smtp.gmail.com. (Check figure.) Click OK.

    Now, you should be able to send/receive emails from Thunderbird.

    You can follow the same procedure for your work/personal email address. (Different email providers have different server settings, so you should refer to their instructions.)

Tips & Warnings

• Before you setup your own work/personal email, you should read instructions for setting up your email account.

• Your email must provide support for POP or IMAP.

Resources

• Mozilla Thunderbird - Direct Link
• How to Use New Google Labs features in Gmail? (With screenshots)
• Check My other Articles