Easy Steps to Setup Gmail with Thunderbird

MAY 5,2017 / BEN APPLEGATE


Thunderbird is an ultimate email client that gives support you IMAP/POP support. If you are wondering to get support Thunderbird to your Gmail account, the tutorial will help you. It takes a few minutes to configure Gmail email account in Thunderbird. Just follow the step by step process to intact your Gmail account with Thunderbird. It makes your email client management easy and fast.

Recommending to use 3.1 Thunderbird version as it allows flexible data transfer. The data is installed in a Pen Drive to operate your account on any account with the support of this email client.

Open Thunderbird file after installation. First time users don’t need to open mail account setup as it automatically open up. If this is not your first to open the Thunderbird email client on your computer, the automatic mail account will not open up. You need to go manually.

Visit “File” menu, move the mouse button to “New” and then “Mail Account”, as click the option the mail account setup window will open in the next window. But before that you need to enable POP in Gmail:

  • Open the Gmail account
  • On top of the page and in “Setting”, click “Configuration
  • Select “Settings”
  • Select “Forwarding and IMAP/POP
  • Enable POP

Now, you can create your Gmail account with Thunderbird

Carefully fill out the email account formation including name, email address, password, choose “POP” and click “Create Account” button.

The simple steps don’t take more than a few minutes to configure your Gmail account with Thunderbird. It doesn’t need technical assistance from others. You can able to do it on your own. Try these steps right away if you really wish to use Mozilla Thunderbird email client to your Gmail account to manage your account.


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