Configuring Thunderbird for your TUHH account

For reasons of stability and security, please make sure that you always use the latest version of Thunderbird! The shown configuration is for Thunderbird 3.1.

The Setting shown here are for stand alone PC's or laptops at home or at the campus. For PC's in our student pools or PC's in Institutes that are member of our KERBEROS.TU-HARBURG.DE Domain these settings are wrong!! For such a PC instead of "Normal password" choose "Kerberos / GSSAPI" at the Server Settings and at the Outgoing Server Settings.

Start creating a new account at Tools->Account Settings->Account Actions->Add Mail Account:

If you already have a lot of messages on the mail server and don't disable Message Synchronization, all messages will be downloaded in background to your computer. This might take a lot of time, disk space and and might be quite expensive if you do it over a mobile phone connection! Take care!

Our recommendation: Disable it. If you really need it you can later enable it on a per folder base.

In the following change the about:config Value of mail.smtp.useMatchingHostNameServer to true. This will make Thunderbird use the same passwort for sending mails as for receiving if the server name is the same, so you don't need to enter it twice!