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 Mozilla Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

6.  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 full email address in the User Name field, and 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.

7.   Press OK and Thunderbird will be configured to send mail.

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.

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

9.   Highlight Email account and press Next

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

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

12.   Highlight POP, and set the Incoming Server to pop.enterprisewebmail.net, uncheck the box marked Use Global Inbox and press Continue

13.  Ensure that your Incoming User Name is set to your entire email address and press Next

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

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

16.  Back in the Account Settings window, select the Server Settings category for your newly created account. Make sure the Port is set to 110.

17.  Click OK. Your iHostXtremes 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.