Follow these steps to set up Thunderbird to send and receive your email messages.
- Open Thunderbird
- Click on Tools at the top
- Click Account Settings
- Click Email account
- Click Account Actions
- Click Add Mail Account
- For Your Name, type in your name as you would like it to appear
when sending an email - For E-mail address, type in your full email address
(yourname@your-company.co.uk) - For Password, type in your email account password
- To have Thunderbird remember your password, click the Remember password
box, so that it is ticked. - Click Continue
- Click Manual Config
- For Incoming:
- Ensure that IMAP is displayed
- Under Server hostname, type in mail3.gridhost.co.uk
- Under Port, type in 993
- Under SSL, ensure that SSL/TLS is displayed
- Under Authentication, ensure that Normal password is displayed
- For Outgoing
- Under Server hostname, type in mail3.gridhost.co.uk.
- Under Port, type in 465
- Under SSL, ensure that SSL/TLS is displayed
- Under Authentication, ensure that Normal password is displayed
- For Username, type in your full email address (yourname@your-company.co.uk)
- Click Advanced config
- Select Server Settings
- Click Advanced…
- Under IMAP server directory, type in INBOX
- Click OK, this will close the Advanced Account Settings dialog
- Click OK, this will close the Account Settings dialog
- Restart Thunderbird in order for settings to be applied