4/26/2023 0 Comments Thunderbird connect to office 365![]() Putting the two together - and if you get a problem related to this - you can opt to use just one outgoing server in Thunderbird, and it won't even have to be the BT one! (Even so, I am using two happily, but this is just a home office.) However, (a) Thunderbird does advise that it prefers you to use only one outgoing server, and (b) Thunderbird appears to allocate port 587 to the default account. I concluded that the SMTP port number is not critical. I sent my newly configured BT Connect account a test email, and it worked! I sent one from it, and again it was fine. I then OK'd my way out.Ĭomment: At this point my POP settings were as recommended, and SMTP was also correct except that the port number for BT was 25 and not the recommended 587. I didn't touch this (I could always come back to it), changed the BT Connect server from to, and checked that the security protocol was STARTTLS. ![]() As my non-BT account is the default, Thunderbird had already given it port 587, with port 25 allocated to BT Connect. Outgoing (SMTP) settings: Still in Tools/Account Settings scroll down and look for 'Outgoing Servers', which is where SMTP settings are managed for some reason. I found that Thunderbird had already defaulted to the correct port 995 on both my accounts, including BT Connect, so I just had to change the BT Connect POP server from to and check that the security protocol was SSL/TLS. ![]() Incoming (POP) settings: In Thunderbird, go to Tools/Account Settings and check each mail Account's 'Server Settings' entry. General comment: In its guidance for the Thunderbird migration, BT uses the words 'server name' to describe what Thunderbird (and the rest) call the port number! Go figure. In case it is relevant, I have two email accounts and BT Connect is not the default. For serious Thunderbird users, I have set-up Thunderbird to send/receive via the single Local folder, not via account-specific folders, but I think most of this applies one way or another. I completed this transition today using Thunderbird 12.0.1 and found that BT's online instructions are not quite 100%, so here are my comments. ![]() Just a little clarification for anyone migrating from the old BT Connect email arrangements to Office 365 and using Thunderbird.
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