Thunderbird or Outlook won't set up

[makaveli10]

I'm using Thunderbird and I can't get it to set up. When I put in my password it doesn't work.

Can anyone walk me through the steps here? There's some websites that have walkthrough's but I've had no success with them.

 

[KSoD]

Hello,

What type of email account is this? GMail, ISP, Yahoo, or Hotmail?

Cheers,
Mak

 

[makaveli10]

I was hoping to be able to add my yahoo, gmail, hotmail, and several other of my emails too, but if I can just get a few of them to work it would be fine.

But for the sake of this let's start with yahoo or gmail, your choice.

 

[KSoD]

Hello,

GMail has all the info right on their site.

Thunderbird 2.0 - Help Center

Yahoo and hotmail you will need plugins to get them working. They do not work by default with any email client.

gAttach: use Gmail as your system's default mail client - review & download link | freewaregenius.com
Gattach might help as well. But you should be able to set that up by default.

yAttach!
Yattach should get your yahoo working.

As for hotmail. I do not know off hand how to connect it to Thunderbird. I use Outlook 2007 and know how to connect to that. I have not tested Thunderbird since it was early version 1.0.

Thunderbirds site has a FAQ with some info about how to connect with yahoo and others.

Thunderbird Help: Thunderbird FAQ

Cheers,
Mak