Follow the steps below to set up your Afrihost-hosted email address in Thunderbird.

• Open Thunderbird.
• Look for the 3 horizontal lines icon next to the search bar and click on it.
• Hover over ‘New Message’ and click on ‘Existing Mail Account’.
• In the Mail Account Setup window, enter your name, email address and password. Once done, click on ‘Continue’.
• Now click on the ‘Mail Config’ button at the bottom and manually enter the following details:

Incoming Mail Configuration Settings

• Set your incoming settings to IMAP
• Set your Server Hostname to mail.yourdomainname.co.za
• The Port should be 143
• Set SSL to None.
• Lastly, change your Authentication to ‘Normal password’.
• Your username should always be your full email address.

Outgoing Mail Configuration

• Set your outgoing settings to SMTP
• Set your Server Hostname to mail.yourdomainname.co.za
• The Port should be 587
• Set SSL to None.
• Lastly, change your Authentication to ‘Normal password’.
• Your username should always be your full email address.

Once you have changed your settings, click on ‘Done’.