Thunderbird auto-checks your Gmail account settingsĬlick on the Continue button: Thunderbird version 3 does all the heavy lifting, and will check all your Gmail account settings for you - once done, and within a few seconds, Thunderbird will display the following summary screen:Ī green dot displayed next to the incoming and outgoing mail servers indicates that Thunderbird was successful in connecting to your Gmail account, using the credentials (email address and password) you supplied.
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Then, under the Email address field, enter your full Gmail email address in the form Finally, under Password, enter your Gmail account password.īy default, the Remember password checkbox is checked: leaving it checked will spare you from having to enter your Gmail account password every time Thunderbird needs it - on the other hand, this convenience should be forgone if you have to share your computer with pranksters and other types of undesirable roommates. Under Your name, enter your name as you want it to appear to email recipients when you send emails from Thunderbird using your Gmail account (note that this does not have to match the name you entered when first creating your Gmail account). You should now see Thunderbird's Mail Account Setup wizard.
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(Since Thunderbird 3 makes it so much easier than previous versions to setup an email account, Gmail or otherwise, we recommend that you download your free copy from .) This will open the simple new email account setup screen in Thunderbird 3. To add your Gmail account in Thunderbird, go to File > New > Mail Account. If you plan on using IMAP access, make sure that IMAP Access is marked as Enabled: Then click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab: make sure that under POP Download, POP is marked as enabled (if you plan on using POP3 for Gmail with Mozilla Thunderbird). You will first need to allow POP3/IMAP access to your Gmail account: log into Gmail in the web browser of your choice, and click on Settings (top right corner of the screen). There are benefits to using IMAP, and the rest of this tutorial will therefore focus on Gmail setup as IMAP while Thunderbird 3 lets you manually configure your Gmail account to use POP3, it will automatically configure itself to use Gmail as IMAP, which is the preferred option! Enable POP3 / IMAP in your Gmail account
Since Gmail uses standard email protocols (IMAP and POP3), you can use literally any email program you want with Gmail (since support for these two protocols is ubiquitous.) But with IMAP, folders are "synchronized" between the live Gmail service you use inside a browser, and any desktop email clients you use to connect to the Gmail mail service. In other words, any email folder you create for your Gmail account inside Thunderbird will not be visible in your live Gmail account. Should you setup Gmail as POP3 or IMAP? With POP3, you cannot create or manage email folders on the server.
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