Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most famous and surely among the best email clients available. What is more, this magnificent piece of software is absolutely free. If you want to use Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client, here is how to set up your email account.
Here is a link to download Mozilla Thunderbird.
- Open Mozilla Thunderbird
- Click on Tools from the top bar and select the Account Settings… from the drop-down menu
- Click on the Account Actions button on the bottom left corner of the Account Settings window and press Add Mail Account
- Fill in the following information in the forms:
Your name: (Your first and last names or your company name)
E-mail address: anything@yourdomain.ext
Password: Your email password
Click Continue - Fill in the following information in the forms:
Username: anything@yourdomain.ext
For premium hosting clients:
Incoming mail (IMAP) server: IMAP 995 mboxhosting.com
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: SMTP 465 mboxhosting.com
For free hosting clients:
Incoming mail (IMAP) server: IMAP 995 free.mboxhosting.com
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: SMTP 465 free.mboxhosting.com
Click Re-test Configuration and then click on the Create Account button - When the email account is added you would need to change the SMTP settings for your email account.
Go to Account Settings… as described in section 2 but this time click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) from the left-hand side of the Account Settings window and then press the Edit button for your outgoing mail server – mboxhosting.com or free.mboxhosting.com - Fill in the following information in the forms:
Description: anything@yourdomain.ext
The server name and Port should be correct according to section 5
Connection security: SSL
Authentication method: Password, transmitted securely
User Name: anything@yourdomain.ext
Click the OK button - The configured in section 7 SMTP details should be updated by going to the Account Settings of the email account anything@yourdomain.ext by simply clicking on it from the left-hand side of the window.
At the bottom of the mainframe, you should select anything@yourdomain.ext – mboxhosting.com (for paid clients) or free.mboxhosting.com (for free clients) as your Outgoing Server (SMTP) and start using your email account.
