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Mozilla Thunderbird 2

This lesson will guide you through setting up your Hover email in Mozilla Thunderbird as an IMAP account.

Configure Mozilla Thunderbird

Click on Tools and select Account Settings.

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Click on Add Account.

Account Wizard

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Select "Email account" and click Next.

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Enter your name and email address then click Next.

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Select IMAP as the account type then enter mail.hover.com as the Incoming Server and click Next.

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Enter your full email address as the Incoming User Name then click Next.

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Enter a name for your account then click Next again.

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Click Finish.

Enable SSL

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Select Server Settings under the new account then select SSL.

Configure Outgoing Server (SMTP)

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Select Outgoing Server (SMTP) then click on Add.

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Enter the following settings:

Description: Hover
Server Name: mail.hover.com
Port: 465

Under "Security and Authentication" put a check next to "Use name and password" and enter your full e-mail address as the user name.

Select SSL then click OK.

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If you have more than one outgoing server configured in Thunderbird Hover should be set as the default server. To do this, highlight your Hover account and click on Set Default and click OK to save the settings.

Subscribe To IMAP Folders

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Right-click on your account name and select Subscribe.

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Enter your password and check the box to remember the password then click OK.

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Click on Refresh then put a check next to all of the folders in the list.

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Click Subscribe then click OK.

The IMAP folders will now be listed under your account. The account configuration has been completed!

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Article Shortcut: http://about.hover.com/thunderbirdimap

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