Click on the Tools menu and select Account Settings.

Click on Account Actions and select Add Mail Account.

Enter the following information:

Your name: Type your name as you wish it to appear when you send email.
Email address: Type your Hover email address
Password: Type your Hover email password.

Click Continue.

Thunderbird will try to configure settings automatically. Click Stop.

Enter the following settings:

The following settings need to be entered:

Username: Enter your full Hover email address
Incoming: mail.hover.com
Outgoing: mail.hover.com

Select IMAP after the Incoming mail server name.

Incoming port number: 993
Outgoing port number: 465

Incoming security: SSL/TLS
Outgoing security: SSL/TLS

Once these settings have been entered, click on Re-test Configuration.

Green lights indicate that the configuration test was successful.

Click on Create Account.

Click OK.

Expand the new account to populate your IMAP folders.

The account set up has been completed!

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