- With Thunderbird 2 open Click on the tools menu and select account settings
- Click the add account button
- Select Email account and click next
- Enter the following information:Â
- Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the "From" field of your outgoing messages.
- Email Address: Enter your full mail address (e.g., john@example.com).
- Click the next button
- Make sure POP is selected and enter
- Incoming (POP3) Server: 'mail.yourdomain.com'
- Outgoing (SMTP) Server: 'mail.yourdomain.com'
- Click the next button
- Enter in
- User Name: Enter your full Email Address
- Click the next button
- Enter in the account name
- Click the next button
- Click finish if all the information is correct
- Click on tools menu and click account settings
- Click on outgoing server and click edit
- Change your outgoing server setting to 25. While this setting should work, some ISP's (such as Telstra) block this port. If you have trouble sending mail, change this setting to first 465, and if your issues aren't resolved, 587.
- Click ok then ok again
- Click on get mail and enter in your password to finish configuring your email account