This tutorial will help you set up the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client to work with your e-mail account.
To Set Up Your E–mail Account in Mozilla Thunderbird
- In Mozilla Thunderbird, select Tools > Account Settings.
- Select "Email account " and click Next.
- If you already have Thunderbird installed then select "Add Account".
- Enter your name (can be anything meaningful) and e-mail address (your nzart.org.nz Officer address).
- Select "POP" as the type of incoming server you are using. Your ISP or other account will have this.
In this example I am using my ISP Paradise Net for the example (incoming server is pop3.paradise.netnz).
Click Next.
- Enter your e-mail address for the "Incoming User Name," and "Outgoing User Name." Click Next.
- Enter a name for your e-mail account and click Next.
- Verify your account information and click Finish.
- In the Account Settings window, select "Server Settings " and you should see this.
- So lets test this new email account out with our existing account - in other words lets send an email to ourselves as a test.
First though lets do a send and receive to make sure we have Thunderbird talking to our ISP's mail server.
Press "Get Mail" .
- As we are using our current logon to our ISP, we need to add our password here, click the tick box to remember the password. Click OK.
- You should see this.
- You should get no errors, if you do check your User ID and password.
- Now lets send ourselves that test email from our new account to our normal email account. click on "Write".
- The you'll see a normal message window, with your default email address in the FROM field.
- By using the down arrow on the from field you can now select the new account we have created.
- Then write an email to yourself.
- Click on "send". Now wait a few moments or minutes, and do a "Get Mail" and you should see this in your in box.
- All done.
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