====== Creating an IMAP account for Thunderbird ======

To begin, run Thunderbird, go to the "**Edit**" menu and select "**Account Settings...**"

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Select "**Add Account...**" and then "**Next**"

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Next, enter your information such as the e-mail address that will appear on your sent e-mails

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Select the option, "**IMAP**", and enter the name of your server, which will be "**imap.yourdomain.tld**".

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If the domain is "**ganditutorial.net**" for example, then the configuration will be "**pop.ganditutorial.net**"

<note warning>
Please remember that "**www**" is NOT part of the domain name - it is only a sub-domain that is commonly used to direct a domain name to a website.
</note>

Finally, enter the username: this is the same as the one that you chose during the creation of your e-mail address

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You may then enter a name for the account, so that you can rapidly identify it in your control panel (useful if you have several different e-mail accounts that you manage from the same Thunderbird application).

Yippee! Yoou have completed the IMAP configuration of your Thunderbird.

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All that remains is to enter the password of your e-mail account (the one that you specified when you created your e-mail account) so that you can download your mail.

See also :
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imap
smtp
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