Problem with configuring Thunderbird with hMailServer

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Vinoth Kumar C M picture Vinoth Kumar C M · Jul 12, 2011 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I installed hMailServer and did the following

  1. Created a test.com domain
  2. Added an user testuser

Now the hMailServer is running in my localhost.

When I install Mozilla thunder bird and try to configure it by entering the username and password, it fails giving 

  Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account.

How can I tell thunderbird about the hMailServer running in my local host? Where is thunderbird looking for the domain when I entered [email protected]?

I saw some messages like "Looking up in Mozilla ISP database". But the mail server is in my local machine.

Am I missing any configuration details?

Answer

numediaweb picture numediaweb · Sep 28, 2011

UPDATE

I posted a video tutorial on YouTube on how to configure hMail and Thunderbird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPfcVd6OOk

I found it pay attention to the IPv4 address -that is very important : http://www.mjvanderwielen.com/?p=1632

Make sure: Incoming is: ”IMAP”

Server hostname: local ip address server computer

Port: 143

SSL: None

Authentication: Normal password

Username: complete account name!!

Outgoing: ”SMTP”

Server hostname: as per your host

Port: as per your host

SSL: as per your host

Authentication: as per your host

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