Setup Thunderbird: POP3/IMAP, SMTP and global ldap address book

Attention

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iRedMail provides POP3S (POP3 over TLS), IMAPS (IMAP over TLS), SMTPS (SMTP over TLS) for receiving and sending emails by default.

Create new mail account

To create a new mail account with Thunderbird, please click menu: File -> New -> Mail Account.

Add your name, email address and password in this screen.

Click continue, it will detect IMAP and SMTP server automatically.

Note:

Configure Thunderbird as POP3 client

Warning: Make sure you are using full email address as username.

Configure Thunderbird as IMAP client

Warning: Make sure you are using full email address as username.

Configure Thunderbird to send mail via SMTP

Menu: Tools -> Account settings... -> Outgoing server (SMTP) -> Choose the server you are using.

Warning: Make sure you are using full email address as username.

Use OpenLDAP as Global LDAP Address Book

IMPORTANT NOTE: Thunderbird won\'t show contacts in LDAP address book directly, but it works when you starting typing email address in recipient field while composing email.

Here we take Thunderbird 5.0 for example. Steps:

That's all.