Revision as of 19:49, 21 July 2018

When setting up Thunderbird it will run a wizard to find the mail settings. At this point, click the 'Manual config' button, and setting as per [Email_Settings]

Tips

If you use IMAP and have a large mailbox (gigabytes) then disabling some of the features can improve performance - try these if you find Thunderbird very slow)

Edit -> Account Settings -> Synchronisation & Storage 
Untick Keep messages for this account on this computer

and also disable the search indexer:

Edit -> Preferences
Untick Enable Global Search Indexer

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-When setting up Thunderbird it will run a wizard to find the mail settings. At this point, click the 'Manual config' button, and use settings as follows, assuming your email address is me@example.com:
+When setting up Thunderbird it will run a wizard to find the mail settings. At this point, click the 'Manual config' button, and setting as per [Email_Settings]
-[[File:Thunderbird-setup.png|none|frame|Thunderbird settings]]
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