---
title: "Add your email to Thunderbird"
url: "https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-email-thunderbird"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-11-06"
category: "Email"
type: "guide"
---

# Add your email to Thunderbird

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

## Right guide?

- Using Outlook?  
  [Add your email to Outlook](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-email-outlook)
- Using Mail on a Mac?  
  [Add your email to iPhone, iPad or Mac](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-email-iphone-mac)

## Before you start

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

## Settings for Thunderbird

- **Protocol:** IMAP
- **Hostname, both servers:** `mail.inleed.com`
- **Username:** The full email address
- **Incoming (IMAP):** Port 993, SSL/TLS
- **Outgoing (SMTP):** Port 465, SSL/TLS
- **Authentication method:** **Normal Password**, for both servers

## How to add your email

1. Open Thunderbird and choose **≡ › Add Account › Email**.

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

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

   Then click **Continue**.

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

   Then click **Continue**.

5. Enter the email account’s password and click **Continue**.

## How to know it worked

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](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/change-email-password)

### 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](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/cant-send-email)

## Good to know

- Thunderbird can also show the calendar from webmail.  
  [Can I sync the webmail calendar?](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/sync-calendar)
- Mozilla’s own guide: [Account Hub for Thunderbird Desktop](https://support.mozilla.org/kb/account-hub-thunderbird-desktop).

## Related guides

- [Email client settings](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-client-settings)
- [I can’t send email](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/cant-send-email)
- [Update the password in your email app](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/update-password-email-app)
- [Add your email to Outlook](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/add-email-outlook)