This tutorial shows you how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Thunderbird 2.0, but these settings are similar in other versions of Thunderbird. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

Attention: Perform the above configuration on one of your email accounts first before applying the configurations to all of your computers.

1.  Open Thunderbird.  If this is the first time you've opened Thunderbird, you may be prompted to Import Settings and Mail folders from.... Press Cancel to continue configuring.

2. If you do not have any mail accounts configured, you will be prompted to create one. At the New Account Setup window, press Cancel and then Exit to begin using Thunderbird.

Pull down Tools and go into Account Settings... if you are configuring Thunderbird for the first time you will see an empty Outgoing Server (SMTP) page.

3.  Click on the Add... button to set up Thunderbird to send mail.

4.  Enter an arbitrary descriptor for the outgoing server, and set the Server Name to smtp.enterprisewebmail.net, check the box marked Use name and password and enter your fully qualified email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) in the User Name field and change the port to 5125. 

NOTE: "yourdomain.com" is an example, if your domain name were "ABCcompany.com", you would enter "ABCcompany.com" into the field. 

If you discover your ISP is blocking port 5125, chances are they are also blocking port 25. Either one should work, though it is more common that port 25 be blocked.  You will need to call your ISP and ask them to open port 5125 for you. Otherwise, you will have to change back to using your ISPs outbound email server.

6.  Next, click Add Account... to start configuring your email account.

7.  Highlight Email account and press Next

8.  Enter Your Name, this should be your full name as you would like it to appear on messages you send.

9.  Enter your Email Address. This is the address that your recipients' email program will use to reply to your messages, and then click Next.

10.  Highlight IMAP and set the Incoming Server to imap.enterprisewebmail.net and press Next.

11.  Enter your fully qualified Email Address, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), and press Next

12.  You can leave the Account Name set to your email address, and press Next

13.  Thunderbird will then Congratulate you and show you a summary of your account, press Finish to continue configuring your account

14.  Back in the Account Settings window, select the Server Settings category for your newly created account. Make sure the Port is set to 143.

15. Click OK. Your email account is now configured to check and send mail. To load your mailboxes, click on the folder titled Inbox underneath your email address and enter your password.

16.  Your Inbox should now appear in the folder tree. To subscribe to other folders, first highlight your account and choose Manage folder subscriptions.  

17.  Make sure Account is set to your email account and check all of the folders that you wish to subscribe to (you will want to subscribe to Junk-Mail to avoid having to log into webmail to view your spam.  Click OK when you are finished.