How to configure an email account in Thunderbird?

  • Start Thunderbird.
  • In the “Set up account” item, select the “Email” option.

Email account configuration in Thunderbird step 1

  • Enter your complete email address, the associated password, and the desired sender name in the corresponding fields, then select “Continue”.

Email account configuration in Thunderbird step 2

  • Thunderbird now performs a standard test with the most common email mailbox settings. This usually fails with hosting.fr mailboxes. Therefore choose “Configure manually” at this point.

Email account configuration in Thunderbird step 3

  • Configure the settings according to your preferred usage:

Email account configuration in Thunderbird step 4

For IMAP/POP3 and SMTP, use the same server name. This is

mail.routing.net.

Depending on how you use your mailbox (IMAP or POP3) and the desired encryption, the ports to configure in your email program are:

ProtocolEncryptionPort
IMAPSSL/TLS (recommended)993
IMAPSTARTTLS143
IMAPnone (not recommended)143
POP3SSL/TLS (recommended)995
POP3STARTTLS110
POP3none (not recommended)110
SMTPSTARTTLS (recommended)587
SMTPSSL/TLS465
SMTPnone (not recommended)25

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