Latest revision as of 14:10, 31 January 2019

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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-<indicator name="Faults">[[File:Menu-email.svg|link=:Category:Email_Clients|30px|Back up to the Email Clients Category]]</indicator>
+<indicator name="Faults">[[File:Menu-email.svg|link=:Category:Email Clients|30px|Back up to the Email Clients Category]]</indicator>
+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-email-settings.png|800px|Thunderbird manual settings]]
-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]]
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