!!TOP!! Download Mozilla Thunderbird Email
Evie Dobbe
IMAP stands for the Internet Message Access Protocol. It enables a mail client (such as Thunderbird) to access messages stored on a mail server. It is more modern and fully featured than POP (Post Office Protocol), which is the other major protocol for accessing mail messages. Most email providers now support IMAP. To see whether your account uses IMAP or POP, check the Server Settings page in the Account Settings.
In order to answer these questions and to provide a great email experience to its users, Thunderbird allows you to subscribe to some email services that can give you a personal email address. Instead of using something like john....@gmail.com, you can use for instance jo...@smith.us, or john....@mylittlecompagnie.com
Usually email address providers will charge you an annual fee to set-up and host your personalized account. Depending on the email address provider, the personalized email account can come with other services. We encourage you to examine each mail provider's offering and pick the one that's best for you. Here's a quick glance at the paid offers (free offers may differ):
Note that both of them support POP and IMAP, secure connections, and some other features. If you have special needs (larger mailbox capacity, more address for you or your business) then you can simply upgrade to another email package at the same provider.
When you start Thunderbird for the first time, or select File > New > Get a New Mail Account, you are given the option to acquire an entirely new email account from an email service provider. Enter the name you want to use for your new email address in the field at the top, select the desired provider and click Search.
The email service provider(s) you selected will show you available email addresses that are based on the name you entered. You can change the name you entered and search again until you find the email address you like best. If the email service provider charges for an account, the amount will be displayed.
Select the address you would like to acquire by clicking on the button that displays the amount. You will be prompted to create an account on the email service provider's site and configure payment and other options.
If you already have a Mailfence or a Gandi account (or any other type of accounts), you can skip the process of creating a new account and move on to configuring an existing account, by clicking on Skip this and use my existing email. These pages provide more details about the setup of an existing email address in Thunderbird:
As of Thunderbird 3, the new Automatic Account Configuration Wizard can help you configure your connection to your email provider, but only if your provider is in Mozilla's database of Internet Service Providers or recognized by Thunderbird. While most of the large providers are included, many smaller ones are not yet in the account configuration database.
I'd then want to chop bits off the picture, or blur it to hide personal information such as email addresses (the built-in Paint program will let you scribble over it to do this ) and then all you have to do then is upload your picture, using the button below the text window in this forum.
Thunderbird users have long been asking for Thunderbird on their Android and iOS devices. This move allows Thunderbird users to have a powerful, privacy-respecting email experience today on Android. Plus, it lets the community help shape the transition of K-9 Mail into a fully-featured mobile Thunderbird experience.
Thunderbird is the leading open-source, cross-platform email and calendaring client, free for business and personal use. We want it to stay secure and become even better. A donation will allow us to hire more developers, pay for infrastructure, expand our userbase, and continue to improve.
I am a finacial supporter, and long time user, of K-9, and I hope this move will be benificial for both projects, eventually merging into one. I used thunderbird as well for a long time, but felt that it had slowed down and threatened to fall behind in the last couple of years. I have been very happy to see thunderbird pick up pace again, and I will definatly give it a go again, as the alternatives will be left in the dust once again ?
I used K9 for many years, and have used Thunderbird for even longer. My breaking point for K9 was when it started silently failing to send emails to Gmail users. This lasted for months, for both myself and a friend, resulting in a number of issues from sent email never arriving. I hope the K9 team can fix that
I am using the latest version of Thunderbird 78.3.2 (32 bit) as well as the latest Firefox 81.0.1 (64 bit). My email has gotten so slow when downloading from the server as well as trying to open each individual email which can take 30-45 seconds to open. I also get the annoying spinning circle as well as it say that "Mozilla Thunderbird - Not Responding" - so frustrating. I get far too many emails a day to continue with this madness and trying to "search" for a solution to "read about" on-line and hope it works? A friend of mine who seems to know about computers suggests it is an "index thing", but I can't seem to find a fix? HELP ME PLEASE!
The next thing is disable any and all "mail scanning" in those ubiquitous anti virus things. They slow normal computer functions by about 30% with their actions and on email is can be significantly more than that. Especially if you get a lot of mail. I have seen individual emails scanned three or four times before anyone actually get to see them. If you just can not get by without it, disable it in the anti virus program and enable the allow anti virus to scan email in Thunderbird options. That way, each email is written into the temp folder of your computer and scanned by the anti virus before it is subsequently coped back into Thunderbird for storage in a mail folder.
Next disable the use of the option to allow windows to search your mail. That one is in Thunderbird options. That should make things faster and I never figured out what having windows search looking for mail was all about anyway. I did have to manually delete the 100,000 or so copies of email with the extension wdseml that were let behind when I turned it off.
Matt - thanks so much for the reply and suggestions...and comments. I do plan to update my 6 year old desktop soon and will say good bye to Windows 7 Pro. The culprit was definitely the anti-virus software as I was using Trend Micro. I ended up calling them and they immediately told me they had a newer version which was interesting as I had just downloaded a new version on 9/28...less than 3 weeks ago. But they re-assured me that there were "bugs" in that version and I needed to upgrade to their latest. After doing so, my email performance is back to "normal"...meaning it is working quickly! I kick myself for not recognizing that this was an anto-virus SW issue all along. Thanks again for all your help.
Hi, I have been on Thunderbird for years and have always fixed my own problems but the pop3 email on my laptop stopped receiving emails 10 days ago. Asked my provider Fasthosts but they can't fix it, read the advice but can't work out what is wrong. I haven't changed any server settings - they are correct according to Fasthosts anyway. My online Outlook email version works fine and I can send emails from my laptop but it keeps saying connection to server timed out. Any ideas please, and I am not technical so it needs to be the very simple version. Thanks.
My pop mail account is using these settings:Server name : mail.livemail.co.ukport: 995Connection Security: SSL/TLSAuthentication Method: Normal PasswordUsername is the full email address for my domain. eg: ma...@mydomainname.co.uk
You must be using Thunderbird 78* because it is causing the problem. Thunderbird has changed the minimum level of TLS to use TLSv1.2, however, Fasthosts who use the livemail server are not using the most up to date. They are fully aware of the problem because I've told them about it.
Hi everyone,Thanks for all the help, my email is now fixed. I eventually unplugged everything and restarted the laptop and router and Thunderbird is now working again on the revised config settings.Fantastic simple advice from Toad-Hall.Thanks.
I found a fix to Thunderbird not connecting to download email by going to account settings and changing the security settings from STARTTLS to none. I think other settings may work as well. I am a novice user who has used Tbird for years and any update has worked fine until 78.2.2 There is something that changed the connection security settings.
Prior to recent 78.2 and 78.3 upgrades, I had no problem with my 4 emails accounts - a mixture of POP and IMAP on 4 different servers/domains. Following the upgrade to 78.2, no emails are downloaded on any account. I changed the tls.security min to 1 and rebooted as advised, but still no email. I also tried switching from SSL/TLS to Start TLS, but still no change. Any ideas how to fix this?Thanks
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