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Add your email to Thunderbird

Add your Inleed email address to Thunderbird, so you can read and send your email there.

About 3 minutes Updated 6 Nov 2026
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Before you start

  • Have the email address and the email account’s password ready. The username is the full email address.

How to add your email

Settings for Thunderbird

Protocol

IMAP

Hostname, both servers
Username

The full email address

Incoming (IMAP)

Port 993, SSL/TLS

Outgoing (SMTP)

Port 465, SSL/TLS

Authentication method

Normal Password, for both servers

  1. 1

    Open Thunderbird and choose ≡ › Add Account › Email.

    The first time you start Thunderbird, the Account Hub opens straight away.

  2. 2

    Enter your name and email address and click Manual configuration.

    Don’t choose Continue. Thunderbird may then guess a server name from your domain, which gives a certificate warning.

  3. 3

    Choose IMAP under Incoming server settings and fill in the fields from the settings.

    Then click Continue.

  4. 4

    Fill in the fields under Outgoing server settings the same way and click Test.

    Then click Continue.

  5. 5

    Enter the email account’s password and click Continue.

How to know it worked

Done

Thunderbird shows that the email account is connected, and the inbox appears on the left.

If something doesn’t work

Thunderbird warns about the certificate

Why: The server is set to, for example, mail.yourdomain.com instead of mail.inleed.com.

What to do: Change the incoming and outgoing server to mail.inleed.com.

“Authentication failed. Please check the username and password”

Why: The username isn’t the full email address, or the password is wrong.

What to do: Enter the full address as the username. If you’ve forgotten the password, change it in DirectAdmin.

Change the password for an email account
I can receive but not send

What to do: Check the outgoing server: port 465, SSL/TLS and Normal Password.

I can’t send email

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