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Setting up Thunderbird to Get Your Email

Want to get EUUC email in Thunderbird?

If you use Thunderbird to access your personal email, then you might want to also handle your @euuc.org emails in Thunderbird. If so, follow these steps.

Mozilla Thunderbird settings

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The email settings that work on one computer might not work on another one, because they are driven by the email application, the internet service provider, and the hosting company all communicating together. These settings were successful with Mozilla Thunderbird (version 3.1.6).

Incoming mail (use either IMAP or POP)

IMAP server: mail.euuc.org on port 143
POP server: mail.euuc.org on port 110
Connection security: none
Authentication method: password, transmitted insecurely

Outgoing mail

SMTP server: mail.euuc.org on port 587
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication method: Normal Password

Stepping through the menus

Open Thunderbird and open the Tools menu.

Mozilla Thunderbird home page

Select Account Settings.

Mozilla Thunderbird Tools menu

Thunderbird tries to connect to the incoming and outgoing servers.

Mozilla Thunderbird setting up an account

If you access your emails from a single computer, you probably want to use POP instead of IMAP which is the default. To choose POP, click Edit. Then, fill in the fields on the following screen with this information:

  • username: first.last@euuc.org (your EUUC email address)
  • Pull down IMAP and choose POP.

Click Create Account.

Thunderbird will probably be successful and show you the following screen. If not, click the Manual Setup button and set the options.

Mozilla Thunderbird Account Settings menu

By clicking on Server Settings in the left menu bar, you will get this menu.

Mozilla Thunderbird server settings menu

Look at the other menus you can choose from the left menu. You can customize where your files are saved, change your junk mail settings, and much more.

Test the set up

Click Ok and return to Thunderbird's main email page. Click on Write and send a test message to yourself.

Questions?

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