Using Gmail with Thunderbird

These instructions are for adding Gmail as a second (or subsequent) account in Thunderbird. I did this instruction to read my email (host in Gmail) with Thunderbird. This instructions taken from Using Gmail with Thunderbird and Mozilla Suite. Thank’s for the instructions

Create a new account in Thunderbird

• Open Thunderbird Mail, go to “Tools -> Account Settings” , click the “Add Account” button, select “Email Account” and click “Next“.
• Enter my name in the “Your Name:” field, and enter my entire Gmail address me[at]supriyadisw[dot]net in the “Email Address:” field. Click the “Next” button.
• Select “POP” as the account type and enter pop.gmail.com in the “Incoming Server” field. I don’t want my Gmail messages to be stored in Local Folders, so I unselect “Use Global Inbox (Store Mail in Local Folders)“. Click the “Next” button.
• Enter my entire Gmail address me[at]supriyadisw[dot]net in both the “Incoming User Name:” field and the “Outgoing User Name:” field. Click the “Next” button.
• Enter a name (such as “supriyadisw”) for my Gmail account in the “Account Name:” field, click the “Next” button and then the “Finish” button. There will now be new account showing in “Account Settings” called “supriyadisw” or whatever I named it.

Add additional account settings

• Still in “Account Settings“, click on “Server Settings” (under “supriyadisw” in the left panel) and select the checkbox for “Use Secure Connection (SSL)“. Optionally, also select the checkbox for “Check for new messages every 10 minutes“. I don’t select anything else.
• Next, click on “Outgoing Server (SMTP)” in the left panel , click the “Advanced” button and click the “Add” button.
• In the “Server Name” field I write smtp.gmail.com. The “Use name and password” box must be selected. In the “User Name” field enter my entire Gmail address me[at]supriyadisw[dot]net. Under “Use Secure Connection” select SSL. After selecting SSL, the port number will automatically change from 25 to 465. This is correct! Now click “OK” and “OK” again. (Note: for all Gmail accounts SSL should be used!)
• Go back to “Server Settings” under “supriyadisw“, click the “Advanced” button and then the “SMTP” tab. In the “Server” field drop-down select the last one. Normally it will be smtp.gmail.com:465. Click the “POP” tab and select “Inbox for this server’s account“. Click the “OK” button. Close Thunderbird and restart the application.

Enable POP in Gmail

I also need to perform one last step: log in to my Gmail account using the web interface and enable POP for the account. After logging into my Gmail account, I click on “Settings -> Forwarding and POP -> POP Download:” and choose either “Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)” or “Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on“. (Either option I choose that fits my needs will work here.) Finally, I click the “Save Changes” button.

Well done. Good Luck…