All categories ​>​ ​Email ​>​ Setting up mail in Thunderbird

Setting up mail in Thunderbird

If you have web hosting with mijn.host and have already created an email account, you can add this created email account in Thunderbird.

Procedure

Open Thunderbird and select Email to set up. When adding a new email account, you can enter the following in the first step:

Your full name: Enter the name of the mail account here, recipients will see this name as the sender.

Email address: Enter the email address of the created mail account here

Password: Enter the password of the created mail account here

Next, click on 'Configure manually' so that you can see more settings. Here you can configure the server settings for incoming and outgoing mail. You need to enter these as follows:

Incoming server:

Protocol: IMAP

Hostname: mail.domain.nl (replace your-domain.nl with the actual domain name)

Port: 993

Connection security: SSL/TLS

Authentication method: Normal password

Username: your created email address

Outgoing server:

Hostname: mail.domain.nl (replace your-domain.nl with the actual domain name)

Port: 465

Connection security: SSL/TLS

Authentication method: Normal password

Username: your created email address

This will then look as follows:

You can test the connection by clicking on 'Re-test'. If the settings are correct, you can continue and click on 'Done' to save the details.

Thunderbird is now set up and you can start emailing.

If you cannot figure it out, you can always contact our support department. 

---