Manually Set Up E-mail with Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac

Manually Set Up E-mail with Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac

For customers using Macintosh computers.

Follow the steps below to connect your 1&1 e-mail account with Mozilla Thunderbird for Macintosh using IMAP protocol.

Step 1
Launch Mozilla Thunderbird. If it is your first time launching Mozilla Thunderbird, the Mail Account Setup Wizard should appear and you may skip to step 4. Otherwise continue with the next step.

Step 2
From the Mozilla Thunderbird window, select Tools > Account Settings 



Select Tools > Account Settings


Step 3
At the bottom-left, select Account Actions and then Add Mail Account 





Select Account Actions then Add Mail Account
Step 4
Enter Your name, your full 1&1 Email address and your e-mail address Password.

Check the box for Remember password if you do not wish to enter your password every time when checking or sending e-mail.

Then, click the Continue button. 



Enter the appropriate information and click Continue

Step 5

Suggested settings may be provided for you. Be sure to select IMAP to view the suggested IMAP settings. In this example, the suggested settings are incorrect so we will click the Manual config button to enter the correct information. 



Click Manual config

Step 6
Enter the following information in the appropriate field:

Incoming : IMAP
Incoming Server hostname : mail.lvo-associates.com
Incoming Port Number : 143
SSL drop-down menu : STARTTLS
Authentication drop-down menu: Normal password Outgoing :  SMTP
Outgoing Server hostname: mail.lvo-associates.com
Outgoing Port Number : 587
SSL drop-down menu : STARTTLS
Authentication drop-down menu : Normal password

User Name : larry@lvo-associates.com



Enter the appropriate information and click Done

Step 7

Click the OK button to save your settings. 


Click OK

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