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title: How to set up your email in Mozilla Thunderbird?
description: "**How to set up your email in Mozilla Thunderbird?** We offer both secure and non-secure methods of connecting to our email server. The secure method protects your password from being intercepted (by using an SSL certificate) ## **Secure Method** 1.…"
url: "https://simplywebservices.net/docs/how-to-set-up-your-email-in-mozilla-thunderbird/"
updated: "2026-08-27"
category: Support
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# How to set up your email in Mozilla Thunderbird?

**How to set up your email in Mozilla Thunderbird?**

We offer both secure and non-secure methods of connecting to our email server. The secure method protects your password from being intercepted (by using an SSL certificate)

## **Secure Method**

1. Launch **Thunderbird**
2. **Click** on the **Local Folders**
3. **Click** on **Email**
4. **Enter** the **required** **information**
   1. **Full** **Name**: Enter the full name for the email account
   2. **Email Address:** - Your email accounts username (user@domain.com)
   3. **Password**: Enter the password for the email
   4. **Check** Remember password
5. **Click** on **Configure manually**
6. **Enter** the **SMTP and** **IMAP** details manually if it doesn’t sync automatically
7. **Click** on **Done**

**INCOMING MAIL SERVER:**

- - **Host Name**: dixie.simplywebservices.net (this is our secure email server)
  - **User Name**: Your email account's username (ex: user@domain.com)
  - **Password**: Your email account's password
  - **Port:** IMAP = 993  / POP3 = 995
  - **Authentication Method:** Normal password
  - **Connection security**: **SSL/TLS**

**OUTGOING MAIL SERVER:**

- - **Host Name**: dixie.simplywebservices.net (this is our secure email server)
  - **User Name**: Your email account's username (ex: user@domain.com)
  - **Password**: Your email account's password
  - **SMTP Port**: 465
  - **Authentication Method:** Normal password
  - **Connection security**: **SSL/TLS**

** You will need to enable one more setting in Thunderbird **

1. Launch Thunderbird
2. Click on **Tools**
3. Click on **Account Settings...**
4. Click on **Outgoing Server (SMTP)**
5. Select the **Outgoing Server** by clicking on it
6. Click the **Edit**... button
7. Under Security and Authentication, check the "**Use name and password**" option

### **Unsecure Method**

1. Launch **Thunderbird**
2. **Click** on the **Local Folders**
3. **Click** on **Email**
4. **Enter** the **required** **information**
   1. **Full** **Name**: Enter the full name for the email account
   2. **Email Address:** - Your email accounts username (user@domain.com)
   3. **Password**: Enter the password for the email
   4. **Check** Remember password
5. **Click** on **Configure manually**
6. **Enter** the **SMTP and** **IMAP** details manually if it doesn’t sync automatically
7. **Click** on **Done**

**INCOMING MAIL SERVER:**

- - **Host Name**: mail.domain.com
  - **User Name**: Your email account's username (ex: user@domain.com)
  - **Password**: Your email account's password
  - **Port:** IMAP = 143 / POP3 = 110
  - **Authentication Method:** Normal password
  - **Connection security**: **None**

**OUTGOING MAIL SERVER:**

- - **Host Name**: mail.domain.com
  - **User Name**: Your email account's username (ex: user@domain.com)
  - **Password**: Your email account's password
  - **SMTP Port**: 25 or 587
  - **Authentication Method:** Normal password
  - **Connection security**: **None**

** You will need to enable one more setting in Thunderbird **

1. Launch Thunderbird
2. Click on **Tools**
3. Click on **Account Settings...**
4. Click on **Outgoing Server (SMTP)**
5. Select the **Outgoing Server** by clicking on it
6. Click the **Edit**... button
7. Under Security and Authentication, check the "**Use name and password**" option

POP3 downloads email from a server to a single computer, then deletes it from the server. On the other hand, IMAP stores messages on a server and synchronizes them across multiple devices.

Our servers do not support using a secure method and your domain name; you must use dixie.simplywebservices.net