How to set up an email account in Thunderbird



In this article we will outline the steps to set up a new email account in Mozilla Thunderbird, so that you'll be able to send and receive emails to and from that new email account. This articles assumes that you've already created your new email account in Plesk Panel. If you have not already done that please refer to the relevant article in the Plesk section of our Knowledge Base.

Follow the steps below to set up your email account:  

1. Open Thunderbird
2. Click on the three bars icon (settings)
3. Go to Options > Account Settings
4. Click on Account Actions > Add Mail Account
5. Enter Your Name as you would like it to appear in the From field of outgoing emails and enter your new email address.
6. Enter the password for your new mail account which you configured in Plesk
7. Click on "Continue"
8. Click on "Done"

 

This completes the process of setting up an email account, and you can now start sending and receiving emails to and from that account with Thunderbird.

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