Easy Steps to Configure Yahoo with Thunderbird

MAY 5,2017 / BEN APPLEGATE


Thunderbird is a great email client. It helps you to manage your personal as well as business email accounts. Whether it is Gmail or Yahoo, you can configure Thunderbird. The tool makes your email management task simple, easy and fast. The configuration is easy to do. You can able to do this without any technical support. Follow the tutorial that tells step by step rules to connect Thunderbird with your Yahoo email account.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 version is what you can consider as the version is capable to make your email management movable. In other words, you can able to store all your emails in a pen drive and access them later in any PC.

First of all install the Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 version on your PC. As the installation takes place, you can follow a few manual procedures to control your Yahoo mail on Thunderbird.

Visit the “File” menu, go to “New” and select “Mail Account”

The email setting window will open, it just takes a few seconds to do this.

Before you configure Thunderbird with your email account, it is instructed to access POP on your Yahoo account. POP allows Yahoo emails to access in other email client. Without accessing POP on your account, it is not possible to open the account in Thunderbird. A few simple procedures need to follow this.

  • Open your Yahoo account
  • On top of the page and in “Setting”, click “Configuration
  • Select “Settings”
  • Select “Forwarding and IMAP/POP
  • Enable POP and choose what you want to occur when accessing POP emails

Now, you can setup your email account. Fill the account carefully including name, email address, password, incoming and outgoing emails with database. Click the “Create Account” button. This is how the whole process. It enables your Yahoo account on Thunderbird.


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