Mozilla Thunderbird Setup

If you are launching Mozilla Thunderbird for the first time, it will open a New Account Setup window as shown below. If the account setup does not start, open the Tools menu and go to Account Settings... then click Add Account...

Select Email account and click Continue.

Enter your name as you'd like recipients of your email to see it, and enter the email address you were provided by HREC / CACHE. Click Continue.

Select the account type you would like to use, for more information on which account type to use, see our POP vs. IMAP page. Enter mail.hrec.coop as both the Incoming Server and Outgoing Server. Click Continue.

Enter your full email address as the Incoming User Name. Click Continue.

You should verify the information here. If all looks well, click Done.

There are some more changes you should make. Go to the Tools menu and select the Account Settings.

Select Server Settings listed under the account you created. If you use POP with more than one computer, you may want to check Leave messages on server and specify a number of days.

Click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) at the bottom of the list. Select the server corresponding to the account you created and click Edit...

Set the Port number to 587.

Click OK to exit out of the account settings windows and save changes where prompted. You're now ready to use Mozilla Thunderbird with your HREC/CACHE email account.

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