The following instructions are used to configure an IMAP account on Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

1) Create a new account:
  – Email

2) A pop-up window appears – Select ‘Skip this and use my existing email’ then enter:
– Your name
– Email address e.g youremail@yourdomain.com
– Password ( The password setup for this email address )

3) ‘Continue’

4) On the next screen, select ‘Manual Config’

Incoming = IMAP   Server Hostname = mail.yourdomain.com    Port = 143   SSL = NONE    Authentication = ‘Normal password’

Outgoing = SMTP   Server Hostname = mail.yourdomain.com    Port = 25 or 587   SSL = NONE    Authentication = ‘Normal password’

IMPORTANT: correct the username at the bottom; Username = full email address e.g youremail@yourdomain.com

5) Select ‘Done’ – you may see a warning message about encryption settings, however you can proceed anyway without error.

Please be advised, the default frequency of which Thunderbird checks for new mail is once every 10 minutes – this could be lowered to around 5 minutes if you are experiencing delays in receiving incoming messages to the Thunderbird client.