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EMAIL SETUP: MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD/NETSCAPE MAIL
These instructions are for the latest
version of Thunderbird, the free mail application from Mozilla. If
you have a different version of Thunderbird and cannot use the
instructions below, visit the Thunderbird
Support Center for more instructions. If you need specific
instructions for your version of Netscape Mail, visit the Netscape
Support Forums.
The examples in this tutorial use
"mail.domain.com" as the POP and SMTP servers. When setting
up your email account, use your Web site's domain name in place of
"domain.com". For example, if your domain name is
"joesgarage.com" then your mail servers would be
"mail.joesgarage.com". Your email address would be
"yourname@joesgarage.com ".
1. Open Thunderbird and go to 'Tools - Account
Settings...'
2. From the Account Settings screen, click
'Add Account.'
3. Choose to set up an 'Email
Account.'
4. In the 'Your Name' box
type your name. In the 'Email Address'
box type your email address.
5. Choose a server of type 'POP'
and put 'mail.domain.com' as the
'Incoming Server.'
6. Type your email address for both the
'Incoming User Name' and 'Outgoing User
Name.'
NOTE: Your ISP may
require you to use a different outgoing SMTP server. Click here for
more instructions.
7. On the next screen, give your account a name.
8. Click 'Next' and
Thunderbird shows you all your settings. Click
'Finish'
to save your settings.
9. At this point, you may be finished
setting up Thunderbird for use with your new Q5 Media email account.
If you already have an account set up in Thunderbird from your ISP
(for example, an Earthlink account or a Windstream account) then you
should be able to use your ISP's SMTP server with your Q5 Media
email account. Your ISP SMTP server settings should already be
entered and set as your default.
However, if this is your first time setting up an account in
Thunderbird or if you would prefer to use your Q5 Media SMTP server
with your Q5 Media email account, follow the instructions below.
NOTE: Your ISP may
require you to use a different outgoing SMTP server (not the Q5
Media SMTP server) or the one you already have set up for
Thunderbird. Click here for more
instructions.
1. Choose 'Outgoing Server
(SMTP)' from the Account Settings window. Click the
'Add...'
button.
2. Add a new SMTP server by putting a
description in the Description box (such as YourCompanyName SMTP)
and the server name 'mail.domain.com' in the
'Server Name'
box (where
domain.com = your Web site domain name).
Check the 'Use name and
password' box and put in your full email address as the
'User Name.'
3. Click 'OK' to add the new SMTP server.
Once you are back to the Account Settings page, click on the name
of your Q5 Media email account so the screen below is shown.
If you have already set up another default
SMTP server, the 'Outgoing Server (SMTP)'
will be shown as your current SMTP server.
You will need to change this (see step 4).
If the SMTP server you just added, from Q5
Media, was the first SMTP server you'd added, then the
'Outgoing Server (SMTP)'
will be
shown as the server you just added.
4. To set the SMTP server for this account
as your Q5 Media SMTP server, choose the server you just added from
the drop-down list and click 'OK' to save your changes.
