IMAP vs POP3 - How to Email in the 21st Century

Add Your OTHER email services to Thunderbird Using IMAP

For add your other Email accounts to Thunderbird is simple.

• Open Thunderbird and type your name, Email address and password
• Click Continue

• Tick the check box on IMAP(remote folders) and click on Manual config

• But as usual like Gmail/Yahoo and AOL for the other mail accounts it's difficult to find out your mail server

• Simply go to http://www.sanebox.com/ and type your email address into the Signup box on Sanebox to find out your mail server

• Sanebox will helps you to find out your mail server
• Now we need to manually enter in our settings (what we get from the sanebox)

• If you've entered everything in correctly, task will be completed successfully and you can click on Create Account
• Now you can check your mails from Thunderbird clicking on Read messages

Setting up your Sent folder properly

• Thunderbird > Tools > Account Settings > Copies & Folders: set Place a copy in to Sent Items on the mail server



• Restart Thunderbird.