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# Setting up e-mail with Mozilla Thunderbird

> Set up Mozilla Thunderbird for your hosting.com email with our step-by-step guide.

This article demonstrates how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to access a hosting.com e-mail account. If you have not already installed Mozilla Thunderbird, you can download it by visiting [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird](http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird).

To configure Mozilla Thunderbird to work with your hosting.com e-mail account, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have already created at least one e-mail account for your domain. If you have not done this, please see [this article](/docs/e-mail-accounts) to learn how to create an e-mail account using cPanel.

2. Start Thunderbird.

3. On the **Edit** menu, click **Account Settings**. The **Account Settings** page appears:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-thunderbird-account-settings.png)

   > 📘 Note
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   > The user interface displayed in these images may differ slightly from the version you have installed.

4. Click **Account Actions**, and then click **Add Mail Account**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-thunderbird-add-mail-account.png)

   The **Account Setup** page appears:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-thunderbird-account-setup.png)

5. In the **Your full name** text box, type the name that you want to appear on messages you send.

6. In the **Email address** text box, type the e-mail address of the account that you created in cPanel.

7. In the **Password** text box, type the password for the e-mail account that you created in cPanel.

8. If you do not want to retype the account password every time you start Thunderbird, select the **Remember password** check box.

9. Click **Continue**. Thunderbird automatically detects the mail server settings for the account. If Thunderbird is unable to detect the settings, make sure that you typed the correct e-mail address in step 6.

   > 📘 Note
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   > By default, Thunderbird selects IMAP with SSL/TLS for the incoming mail server, and SMTP with SSL/TLS for the outgoing mail server. If you want to change any of these settings, click **Configure manually**. Remember that you should use **SSL/TLS** connections, with IMAP using port **993**, POP3 using port **995**, and SMTP using port **465**.

10. Click **Done**:\
    ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-thunderbird-done.png)

    Thunderbird verifies the password that you provided in step 7.

11. Click **Finish**.

12. To retrieve messages from the account immediately, click **Get Messages**. Thunderbird downloads the messages for the account.

## More information

For more information about Mozilla Thunderbird, please visit [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird](http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird).

## Related articles

* [Introduction to e-mail protocols](/docs/introduction-to-e-mail-protocols)

* [Accessing e-mail accounts with client applications](/docs/accessing-e-mail-accounts-with-client-applications)

* [Troubleshooting e-mail accounts](/docs/troubleshooting-e-mail-accounts)