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# Launch Thunderbird from your Start menu and select File > New > Mail Account from the menu along the top of the window.
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# Launch Thunderbird and click the red link '''Email''' under the '''Accounts''' section.
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# Type your name as you would like it to appear when someone receives a message from you.
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# AEnter in your email address, uncheck gandi.net, and click the "Skip this and use my existing email" button.
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# Type "you@yourdomain.com" as the email address, note this is the full address, not just "you@".
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# On the Mail Account Setup window, enter in your name, email address and password.  Click Continue.
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# Type in your password and click "Continue".
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# Thunderbird may return a configuration based on "Common Server Names", click "Manual Config" to alter additional settings.
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# Thunderbird will connect with the email server, and populate the mail settings with not quite what you want. Click '''Manual Config'''.
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# Select "IMAP" from the drop down box next to "Incoming" to ensure the account is set up as IMAP.
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# Enter mail.yourdomain.com or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number into the Incoming IMAP "Server Hostname" box.
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# Replace the Server hostnames with ahs5.r4l.com or your server's name(the interface keeps all lowercase characters), choose SSL/TLS under '''SSL''', and normal password under '''Authentication'''.  Click Done.
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# Enter the same smtp.yourdomain.com or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number into the Outgoing SMTP "Server Hostname" box.
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# Ensure that the port numbers are selected as 143 for Incoming, and 587 for Outgoing.
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# Thunderbird will test your settings, and if everyhting checks out, click on your Inbox.
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# Enter your full email address as the Username, "you@yourdomain.com"
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# In the SSL Column, change the drop down menus for both the Incoming and Outgoing Server to "None" You can change this later if you wish.
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# In the "Authentication" Column change both the Incoming and Outgoing Server to "Normal Password".
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# Once you have made the alterations, click the "Create Account" button on the bottom right hand side of the window.
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That's it. Thunderbird is now configured and ready to use with your R4L email account.
 
That's it. Thunderbird is now configured and ready to use with your R4L email account.

Revision as of 15:33, 1 March 2018

Thunderbird64.png Configuring Thunderbird for IMAP

We recommend using IMAP instead of POP for accessing your incoming email. Pop configurations will often delete mail from the server, making it unavailable to other devices or computers you would use to access your email. With IMAP, you can access your mail using your computer and smartphone, and keep mail syncronized between devices.
Important note: In the description below, we use you@yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as your email address and domain name. You need to substitute of course your real email address and domain name.
About Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): In the instructions below, we are not enabling SSL. If you wish to connect to the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP server using encryption, then leave these enabled. There will not be an SSL certificate on the server to match mail.yourdomain.com or imap.yourdomain.com, so your mail program will warn you that you are connecting without a certificate. Confirm the exception when this happens.


  1. Launch Thunderbird and click the red link Email under the Accounts section.
    thunderbird-1.jpg
  2. AEnter in your email address, uncheck gandi.net, and click the "Skip this and use my existing email" button.
    thunderbird-2.jpg
  3. On the Mail Account Setup window, enter in your name, email address and password. Click Continue.
    thunderbird-3.jpg
  4. Thunderbird will connect with the email server, and populate the mail settings with not quite what you want. Click Manual Config.
    thunderbird-4.jpg
  5. Replace the Server hostnames with ahs5.r4l.com or your server's name(the interface keeps all lowercase characters), choose SSL/TLS under SSL, and normal password under Authentication. Click Done.
    thunderbird-5.jpg
  6. Thunderbird will test your settings, and if everyhting checks out, click on your Inbox.

That's it. Thunderbird is now configured and ready to use with your R4L email account.

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