Setting up Thunderbird with Microsoft Office 365

In this post we provide instructions on how to connect your thunderbird email client to use Microsoft Office 365.

When opening Thunderbird for the first time a start up page will provide you with options to Create a new account. Select Email.

Then select Skip this and use my existing email

Enter your account details as requested and select Continue

Select IMAP and then Manual config

For Server hostname enter outlook.office365.com for both incoming and outgoing servers.

For Username enter your Full Email address

Select Done

It takes a little while but you should see your emails start to load in the inbox.

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Gary is Technical Director at Denizon, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services,enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scalable in a way which helps them address and reduce their ecological impact.

Denizon's product line successfully integrate IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology to enable efficient, productive, secure and scalable solutions to help organisations address increasing energy demands, ecological impact and Health & Safety concerns of their staff.

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