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Mozilla Thunderbird

Synchronise your Pureweb mailbox with Mozilla's open-source email client.

Thunderbird is a free-to-use, full-featured email client available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can download it from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/download/

In this guide, you will configure Mozilla Thunderbird to synchronise with webmail using the IMAP protocol. Changes made on one device will be reflected across all of your configured devices.

Email configuration

  1. Navigate to Settings via the icon in the bottom-left, or the icon in the top-right
  2. Click Account Settings
  3. Click Account Actions
  4. Choose Add Mail Account

  5. Enter the details for your account:

    Name
    Enter the name you'd like your email recipients to see
    Email Address
    Enter your email address
    Password
    Enter your mailbox password

  6. Thunderbird will try to detect the correct server settings automatically. If it doesn't find them, click Configure manually and enter the settings below.

    Incoming Mail

    Protocol
    IMAP
    Server
    imap.cloudisp.net
    Port
    993
    Encryption method
    SSL/TLS
    Username
    Enter your email address

    Outgoing Mail

    Server
    smtp.cloudisp.net
    Port
    465
    Encryption method
    SSL/TLS
    Username
    Enter your email address
  7. Click Re-test to confirm the settings are correct, then click Done to finish. Thunderbird will start synchronising the account's mail.

Thunderbird Tips

Thunderbird is highly customisable. You can adjust various settings to suit your preferences, within the Settings area. Access this area via the icon in the bottom-left, or the icon in the top-right.

Here are a few useful settings available on the General tab of the Settings area.

  • Choose which webpage is displayed when you first open Thunderbird. This defaults to a page about the Mozilla Thunderbird project, requesting donations towards further development. You can change it to a page that is more useful to you, or switch it off entirely.
  • Supported languages and the language to use as the default, e.g. British vs US English spelling.
  • A checkbox to Allow Windows Search to search messages.

Here are a few useful settings available on the Appearance tab of the Settings area.

  • Choose between a card or table view for your list of emails, and whether cards are two or three lines tall. Often two is enough, allowing more emails to be visible on screen.
  • Choose whether email conversations are threaded (grouped together), unthreaded, or grouped by your chosen sort order.

Thunderbird is privacy-focused, especially compared to common alternatives, however Mozilla do collect anonymous telemetry data to help improve the software. If preferred, this can be disabled in the Settings > Privacy & Security area.

Additional themes, including dark modes, can be installed via Settings > Add-ons & Themes.