When Thunderbird launches for the first time, the setup wizard will start. Assuming you don’t have an email account you don’t want to import.
- select Don’t import anything and click Continue.
- Select Email account from the New Account Setup
- Enter your name
- Enter your email address.
- Select the type of email account as POP.
- Enter the incoming and outgoing mail servers as mail.yourdomain.com where "yourdomain.com" is your own domain name.
- Enter your email address as the user name.
- Give this account a name.
- Verify the info on the summary screen and click Done.
- You may get a ‘warning’ message while your account setup is finishing. Click OK.
- The first time Thunderbird checks your email, you’ll need to enter your password
- If you ask Thunderbird to remember your password you will get a warning alert. Click ok.
- The first time you try to send email you’ll also be prompted for a password.
