{"id":332,"date":"2016-02-02T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-02-10T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:37:21","slug":"thunderbird-email-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/thunderbird-email-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird email client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/thunderbird.png\" alt=\"thunderbird\" width=\"77\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-333\" \/>How to set up a new email account in the Thunderbird email client.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird is the email client from Mozilla. That is the people who do the &#8216;Firefox&#8217; browser.<br \/>\nYou can download it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/thunderbird\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a very good client, and its FREE.<\/p>\n<p>From the top menu:<br \/>\nSelect File -> New -> Get New Mail Account&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/thunderbird-menu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/thunderbird-menu.png 396w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/thunderbird-menu-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/thunderbird-menu-300x348.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the top menu, press ALT.<\/p>\n<p>Press &#8216;Skip this and use my existing email&#8217;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-02.jpg\" alt=\"Capture 02\" width=\"663\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-02.jpg 663w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-02-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter your Name, email address and password, then continue.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-03.jpg\" alt=\"Capture 03\" width=\"520\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-03.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-03-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird picked the following settings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-04.jpg\" alt=\"Capture 04\" width=\"525\" height=\"242\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-04.jpg 525w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-04-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not 100% right so click &#8216;Manual config&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-05.jpg\" alt=\"Capture 05\" width=\"767\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-05.jpg 767w, https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Capture-05-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here I have updated the outgoing SMTP server hostname and the username.<br \/>\nI have also updated the outgoing SSL and authentication, but that isn&#8217;t critical.<\/p>\n<p>Click Done.<\/p>\n<p>You may get a &#8216;Confirm Security Exception&#8217; warning message.<br \/>\nThis is because the email account is on a shared server and the server&#8217;s certificate doesn&#8217;t match the account you&#8217;ve just set up. 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Choose to permanently ignore this.<br \/>\nYou will get this message twice, this is once for the incoming account and once for the outgoing account.<\/p>\n<p>It should all be set up now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to set up a new email account in the Thunderbird email client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thunderbird email client - Blog | DBN Web Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to set up a new email account in the Thunderbird email client.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/thunderbird-email-client\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thunderbird email client - 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