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Setting Up Thunderbird

Setting up Your Account

  1. Go to the Tools menu and click on Account Settings…
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  2. At the bottom left of the window, you should see a dropdown that says Account Actions. Click the dropdown and select Add Mail Account.
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  3. Enter your name, CS email address, and password and click Continue.
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  4. Thunderbird should automatically configure your account to use the correct settings.
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  5. If it does not, or you would like to confirm your settings, click on the button that says Manual Config and check that the settings are as follows:
    Incoming: IMAP imap.cs.umd.edu 143 STARTTLS Normal password
    Outgoing: SMTP smtp.cs.umd.edu 587 STARTTLS Normal password
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  6. Click Done.
  7. Your email account should now appear in the left sidebar of Thunderbird and begin pulling messages from the server.
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  8. That’s it. You should be ready to go.