Setting up POPS/IMAPS and SMTPS on Mozilla/Thunderbird

  • Select Tools > Account Settings
  • Click "Add Account"
  • Select "Email Account"
  • Enter your name and Email Address
  • Select POP or IMAP
  • Set Incoming Server to mail.employees.org
  • Set Incoming User Name to your userid
  • Set Account Name to whatever you want
  • Click "Finished"
  • Select "Server Settings" from the account you just created
  • Make sure "SSL" is checked. We require SSL for all POP3 and IMAP connections.
  • Make sure "Use secure authentication" is NOT checked. We do not support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
  • Only for IMAP:
    • Click "Advanced"
    • Set IMAP server directory to "Mail". This will be the directory under your home directory where IMAP folders are stored
  • Click "OK"
  • (Optional) To add SMTP server, click "Outoing Server (SMTP)"
    • Click "Advanced" and then Click "Add..." to get the "SMTP Server" dialog box
    • Set "Server Name" to mail.employees.org
    • Click checkbox "User name and password"
    • Set User Name
    • click either "TLS" or "SSL"
    • if clicked "SSL", make sure the Port is "465". If clicked "TLS" then Port can be "587", "25", or "1025". Try them in the given order.
    • Click "OK" to exit "SMTP Server" dialog
    • Click "OK to exit "Advanced Outoing Server (SMTP) Settings"
    • Select the "Server Settings" again.
    • Click the "Advanced..." button.
    • Select the SMTP tab.
    • In the drop-down box, select the mail.employees.org entry we just created.
    • Click OK to exit "Advanced Account Settings".
    • Click OK to exit "Account Settings"
  • Click "Get Mail"
  • Enter your password