In order to setup DigitalFyre’s Enterprise Email Hosting with Thunderbird, please follow these instructions:
- Open Thunderbird.
- In the navigation pane, click Local Folders and under Create a new account, click Email.
- When prompted to create a new email address, click the Skip this and use my existing email button at the bottom of the dialog box.
- In the Mail Account Setup dialog box, enter the following information in the fields provided:
- Your name: Enter the name that you want to appear in the From field of messages that you send.
- Email address: Enter your entire email address (for example, [email protected]).
- Password: Enter the password for the email account that you are setting up.
Click Continue. - When Thunderbird attempts to automatically detect the server settings, click Manual config. You must enter the settings manually.
- The dialog box expands to show new fields.
- Enter the following values in the Incoming row:
- IMAP
- Server hostname: secure.emailsrvr.com
- Port: 993
- SSL: SSL/TLS (This value should auto populate when you enter the port number.)
- Authentication: Autodetect
- Enter the following values in the Outgoing row:
- Server hostname: secure.emailsrvr.com
- Port: 465
- SSL: SSL/TLS (This value should auto populate when you enter the port number.)
- Authentication: Autodetect
- Click Re-test.
- The Authentication fields should change to Normal Password, and the following message should appear in the middle of the screen: The following setting were found by probing the given server.
- Click Done.
- The setup process is done. You should now see your mailbox added in Thunderbird and mail will start populating the Inbox.