When you run into trouble post back and let us know what's happening. Get yourself a cuppa for your nerves, a pencil and paper to make notes with and dive in. For Authentication method choose normal password. In Thunderbird, for connection security choose SSL/TLS. You will get a security complaint and you need to accept that POP3 (according to Google) is less secure than IMAP.

You will need to configure gmail to accept POP3. You will need to manually sign into your gmail account and enter the setup section which took me forever to find. One of my frustrations is that it took me all day to discover that for my user name they wanted my email address. Your migration might be easy or it might take hours and hours and be frustrating. Just remember, it's not a bible and your settings may be different. Gmail uses POP for its incoming service, so choose POP rather than IMAP. The instructions in this link are reasonably good. For those of us who still used POP3 the migration was a nightmare. Once you have entered all the mail settings for the email account, click the Add Account button to proceed.A year ago my long suffering ISP made a deal with Google and migrated its email service to gmail.You only get 5GB of free iCloud storage to start with but its a decent plan entirely for free. Thats reflected in its features with no mention of strong encryption or anything more than the basics being covered.

The additional settings checkboxes are personal preferences and are fairly self-explanatory. The interface looks a lot like a simpler version of Gmail which makes it all the easier to use. However, for this to work using the secured port, you will need to install an SSL certificate that covers the mail service for your domain. This will let you use the secured port number, and the “ Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail” setting. We recommend replacing cloud***.thundercloud.uk with the hostname for your server, found within your welcome email.There are a number of different configurations to choose from. Yourdomain.tld – The domain associated with your web hosting package. Your password – the password you created for your email address.Ĭloud***.thundercloud.u k – this is an example server hostname for one of our shared services * Your full email address – this is the email you have set up already.

In the add an email account window, populate the fields using the mail settings table.

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