Thunderbird Set-up

Thunderbird Setup

Automatic Account Configration 

Setting up a new account with Thunderbird is easy. All you need to do is provide your user name and password for your email provider and your email address. Please see Thunderbird's setp-by-step guide for automatic account configration

Manual Account Configration

Mail Account set-up screen window

 

Sample settings to manually configure a mail client (use your own name/email/username):

  Your name: Jane Doe
  Email address: jane@math.toronto.edu
  Password: xxxxxxxxxx

  Incoming: IMAP
  Server hostname: mail.math.toronto.edu
  Port 143
  SSL: STARTTLS
  Authentication: Normal password
  Username: jane

  Outgoing: IMAP
  Server hostname: smtp.math.toronto.edu
  Port 587
  SSL: STARTTLS
  Authentication: Normal password
  Username: jane

Note: you can replace ".toronto.edu" with ".utoronto.ca", they are interchangeable even after you configure your email client, you can still use either one. Sending/receiving email to/at jane@math.toronto.edu and jane@math.utoronto.ca are equivalent.