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How to Set Up Email in Thunderbird

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This article explains how to set up your new email address in the desktop application called Thunderbird.  You can click here to read more about Thunderbird

To add your mailbox in the Thunderbird mail client, please follow these instructions:

These instructions are for version 78.5.1.  It’s possible your settings are slightly different but the server names and ports will be the same.

  1. In Thunderbird, click on the main menu icon (three horizontal lines) at the top right of the screen.
  2. Click Account Settings.
  3. Click the Account Actions menu (bottom left).
  4. Click Add Mail Account.
  5. Enter Your name, Email address and Password and click Continue.
  6. Click Configure Manually
  7. For the Incoming IMAP server, enter secure.iljmail.com
  8. For Incoming SSL, select SSL/TLS and it should be Port 993.
  9. For the Outgoing SMTP server, enter secure.iljmail.com
  10. For Outgoing SSL, select STARTTLS.
  11. For Outgoing Port, enter 2500
  12. For Username Incoming and Outgoing, enter your full email address.
  13. Click Re-test.
  14. Click Done.

Here’s a screenshot of the settings after clicking Re-test (replace the test user information with your own of course):

testuserthunderbirdsetup.png

(If you are wanting to use POP for your emails, all you have to do is choose POP3 under Incoming instead of IMAP and change the port number to 995.)