Secure Connections for ThunderBird 2.0 at Webhost4life
Webhost4life supports TLS and SSL in their mail server. To setup the secure connection in Thunderbird 2.0, we can
- Open Thunderbird, ThunderBird
- Tools > accounts > server settings
- Change the mail server address e.g. mail.domainname.xyz (in our hosting environment, default name for POP3, IMAP and SMTP servers would be mail.domain.com)
- If you want to use SSL, update the Port value to 993 for IMAP / Update the Port value to 995 for POP
If you want to use TLS, update the Port value to 994 for IMAP / Update the Port value to 996 for POP - In the Security Settings section, select SSL/TLS from the Use secure connection options.
- Click Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the folder list.
- Select the entry from the list and click Edit. The SMTP Server page appears.
- Change the mail server address
- If you want to use SSL, update the Port value to 465
If you want to use TLS, update the Port value to 587
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Posted in Email by admin at August 20th, 2009.
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