Setting thunderbird account up... [+rep]

[Holofoil]

I'm going through the steps to set the account up, how do I know:

Whether my incoming server is POP or IMAP
The name of my incoming server
The name of my outgoing server

Help would be much appreciated

[darkchicken101]

Thunderbird (and all email clients) need an existing email account to link to. If you don't have one, you can't set up an account in Thunderbird. If you do, it depends where the email account is from. If it's a well known service (MobileMe or Gmail or something) you should be able to find instructions.

Without knowing the details of your email account, we won't be able to give you that information.

[newWORLDorder]

Tbh, unless your not using it for a reason, I seriously would reccomend Mail (default mail app). It does everything all other mail apps do basically.

Although I do not know much about thunderbird sory.

[Holofoil]

ummm im using hotmail

[darkchicken101]

Unless you are paying for your Hotmail account then you can't use an external program (Thunderbird, Mail etc.) to check it (unless you use Windows Live Mail).

You could use Gmail as an alternative.

[Recursion]

I use Outlook 2007 to check hotmail and its free, just use Entourage.

[Holofoil]

ok I have a gmail account as well... what next?

[darkchicken101]

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=38343 for using Gmail with Thunderbird