Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (and above) for POP Mail

Note: When following these instructions, please remember to substitute appropriate values in place of the examples used (e.g. replace 'yourdomain.com' with the appropriate domain name).

1. Start Thunderbird.
2. Go to the Tools menu and click on Account Settings.
3. Click the Add Account button, then select Email account and click Next.
4. Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages and your email address (e.g. yourname@yourdomain.com) on the next screen and click Next.
   
   
   
5. Select POP as the type of incoming server you are using. Enter mail.yourdomain.com in the Incoming Server and Outgoing Server fields and click next. (Note: if you already have another email account configured, the Outgoing Server field will not be available.)
   
   
   
6. In the Incoming User Name and Outgoing User Name fields, enter your email address in the following format: yourname+yourdomain.com (using a + symbol in place of the @ symbol). Then click Next. (Note: if you already have another email account configured, the Outgoing User Name field will not be available.)
   
   
   
7. Enter a name for your email account in the Account Name field and click Next.
8. On the next screen, click Finish.
   
   
   
9. Select Server Settings from the settings listed under your newly created account and ensure that the checkboxes for Check for new messages at startup and Automatically download new messages are ticked.
10. Click Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the folder list, select the entry for yourname+yourdomain.com, and click Edit. (Note: If you already have another email account configured, then you'll need to click Add.)
11. Ensure that Use name and password is ticked, and that the User Name is entered as yourname+yourdomain.com. (Note: If you clicked Add in the previous step, then configure the outgoing server as seen in the image below.)
    
    
    
12. Click OK, and then click OK again to close the Account Settings screen. (Note: If you created the outgoing server entry in the previous step, then select your new account from the Account Settings screen and under Outgoing Server (SMTP) select the mail.yourdomain.com entry and then click OK.)