If you have any questions or requests for tutorials, post a comment or pm me.
So what would be a advantage to doing it this way? You don’t have to open your browser and manually log in, and you can check many email address with the lick of the mouse (I check 10 at a time, imagine logging in and out 10 times)
Links:
ThunderBird
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-2.0.0.14&os=winâ©=en-US
ThunderBird addons
http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html
Addition Information:
Hotmail Configuration-
ServerName: localhost Port: 110
Username: username@hotmail.com
SecuritySettings: Never / don’t check secure authentication
Hotmail SMTP settings-
ServerName: localhost Port: 25
Username: username@hotmail.com
TLS is available
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Gmail Configuration-
ServerName: pop.gmail.com Port: 995
Username: username@gmail.com
SecuritySettings: SSL / don’t check secure authentication
Gmail SMTP settings-
ServerName: localhost Port: 25
Username: username@gmail.com
TLS is available
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Most other email hosts will just be the same, just use the guideline
Server Type : POP
Incoming Server: localhost
UserName : username@domain
Port: 110
SMTP settings
Server Name: localhost
UserName : username@domain
June 11, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Trying to use hotmail. Added add-ons and used hotmail settings you mentionned but is does not work.
Used web mail on account add.
Any suggestions?
June 12, 2008 at 9:30 pm
What hotmail domain are you using? (eg. -.com .ca .fr etc.)
Do you have a email scanner that could be blocking it?
Also, can you send or receive emails?
Do you have any other emails linked with Thunderbird?
I’ll need a little more info before I can help you come up with a solution.
June 13, 2008 at 3:29 pm
using hotmail.com
can send and receive emails
no other emails linked w/ T’bird – trying to figure out how?
Thanks for your help!
June 13, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Can you take screen shots of your settings, or type them?
That would be most helpful
June 24, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Hi,
I’m trying to setup a Hotmail account in Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, and I can send fine but I don’t receive any emails to the Hotmail Inbox, although I know there are some that should be downloaded. I have the same settings you have above:
(Hotmail SMTP settings-
ServerName: localhost Port: 25
Username: username@hotmail.com
TLS is available)
Do you have any idea what could be wrong? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
June 24, 2008 at 10:37 pm
no need to respond: I solved it!
I just put “127.0.0.1″ instead of “localhost” in the Server Name for the Hotmail account’s POP.
June 25, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’m glad you got it working, I never really thought if doing that, but it’s a good idea.
August 23, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I am in the account wizard entering the server informaition on Thunderbird. I am setting up the gmail server info… I typed in pop.gmail.com and unchecked the “use Global Inbox”…..When I click next it says “Alert! Please enter a valid hostname.” Do you know why this is saying this and how I can fix it?
August 24, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Is your account name set to “example@yourhost.com”
August 27, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Sorry….I got it to work.
Thanks
January 21, 2009 at 11:34 am
Whats the Advantage of doing Gmail your way VS. The gmail setting they have?
February 6, 2009 at 4:04 pm
On the account wizard, under incoming server for hotmail I’ve tried mail.hotmail.com and 127.0.0.1 Port: 110 with pop and global unchecked. It gives me the message invalid host name. Any suggestions? I hope this isn’t a silly question…
February 14, 2009 at 3:04 pm
You could use theirs, they should both function the same.