2007-12-20

Thunderbird with GoDaddy

The following was copied out of the GoDaddy's help documentation. Obviously the documentation is old but it somewhat works. I suffered through it and it worked on the first try.

This tutorial will help you set up the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client to work with your e-mail account.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Mozilla Thunderbird

  1. In Mozilla Thunderbird, select Tools > Account Settings.
  2. Select "Email account " and click Next.
  3. Enter your name and e-mail address.
  4. Select "POP" as the type of incoming server you are using. Your incoming server is pop.secureserver.net. Click Next.
  5. Enter your e-mail address for the "Incoming User Name," and "Outgoing User Name." Click Next.
  6. Enter a name for your e-mail account and click Next.
  7. Verify your account information and click Finish.
  8. In the Account Settings window, select "Outgoing Server" listed below your new account.
  9. Enter "smtpout.secureserver.net" for the "Server Name" and change the "Port" setting to 80.
  10. NOTE: "smtpout.secureserver.net" is an SMTP relay server. In order to use this server to send e-mails, you must first activate SMTP relay on your e-mail account. Log on to your Manage Email Accounts page to set up SMTP relay. If you do not have SMTP relay set up and your Internet Service Provider (ISP) allows it, you can use the outgoing mail server for your Internet Service Provider. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting.

  11. Select "Use name and password" and enter your e-mail address. Thunderbird will ask you for your password the first time you try to send mail. Click OK.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you! Very helpful!

morales2k said...

If youre having issues with smtpout.secureserver.net, forget godaddy's config, they are crazy, lazy and oblivious. Use the following:smtpout.secureserver.net
port:465
encryption:SSL

Forget what godaddy said, they dunno half a thing. This worked wonders, none of the stuff they said worked for outgoing mails... screw em. This did work, yay!