Thunderbird is a free email client, available for download at: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/.

To configure Thunderbird for use with your POP email service:

Open Thunderbird

Click Edit

Click Account Settings

Click Add Account in the bottom left

Select Email Account

Click Next

Enter the following information:

• Your Name - What you want your recipients to see
• Email address -

Click Next

Select “POP"

• Incoming server is mail.yoursitedomain.com
• Outgoing server This is that of mail.yoursitedomain.com as well. However, currently many ISP’s block access to this port and you have trouble with outgoing mail function you should enter the smtp-server provided to you by your ISP

Click Next

Incoming User Name - Your username is your full email address

Click Next

Enter an Account name

Important Note: This can be anything, just a reminder of what this account is.
Click Next

Click

Now that Thunderbird is setup to use your domain’s mail server, you are ready to begin sending and receiving email using your account.

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