Reading/writing NCBS email in mail-clients such as thunderbird

[Dilawar Singh]

NCBS email server support IMAP (for incoming mails) and SMTP (for outgoing mails). You can use thunderbird to read and write emails.

For this you need to configure your NCBS account in Thunderbird. Read the following tutorial.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manual-account-configuration

You need following to setup your email in any reader-client.

Incoming server details:

     Server name: imap.ncbs.res.in
     Port: 993
     Connection security: SSL/TLS
     Authentication: Normal Password

Outgoing server details:
     server name: mail.ncbs.res.in
     Port: 587
     Connection security: STARTTLS
     Authentication: Normal password.

In other clients, such as android Mail client, security type also comes with additional "accept all certificate" options. Pick those.

If the client say anything about certificates, add NCBS certificate to security exception by selecting the obvious option from pop-up list.


Dilawar