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Setting up Webmail Plus Using Mozilla Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a full-featured email application that supports IMAP. It may be set up to access your Webmail Plus account, however to fully utilize the collaborative features of Webmail Plus, you should use its Web interface. Updates to Thunderbird, or Webmail Plus could cause functionality problems which may or may not be resolved quickly. Thunderbird may be downloaded at mozilla.com. After it has been downloaded and installed:

  1. Start Thunderbird.

  2. Click the Tools menu and select Account Settings.

    Under Tools select Account Settings

  3. Under Account Actions, select Add Mail Account.
  4. Fill in your Name, Email address and Password in the appropriate fields.

    Fill in your name, email address and password

  5. Thunderbird will try to automatically detect server settings. Click the Manual Config button to skip this.
  6. Enter the settings and click the Create Account button. Make sure that you change the Username field to your Bronco NetID.

    Enter the settings

Incoming:

Type: IMAP

Host Name: imap.wmich.edu

Port 993

SSL: SSL/TLS

Authentication: Normal Password

Outgoing:

Type: SMTP

Host Name: smtp.wmich.edu

Port: 587

SSL: STARTTLS

Authentication: Normal Password