You can go back and change the name of the email account, away from the fake one, later, in the Account settings. Changing the login name just makes Thunderbird actually log in with your correct user account.

email address in the first question field forces Thunderbird to properly detect the Office365 setup. The programmers in their infinite (non) wisdom have decided that 'manual config' never gets overridden by the auto domain detection. You should be able to choose your folders : For more info see this article : Office 365 (Thunderbird) - Configure Thunderbird.

Right-click on the Thunderbird account and selecting 'Subscribe.'.

Since GoDaddy gives you your own email domain with their subscription, when you use said email domain in the field Thunderbird doesn't recognize it, and throws up the error.ĮVEN WHEN YOU MANUALLY OVERRIDE THE SERVER SETTINGS VIA MANUAL CONFIG. Account Setting ->Server-> Advanced -> uncheck 'Show only subscribed folders'. If your administrator does not allow IMAP access, then you won't be able to use Thunderbird with your account. Thunderbird does NOT support Microsoft's proprietary protocols to access Exchange servers or Office 365. The reason? The programmers have decided to use the FIRST email entry field as the key value for Thunderbird to do network discovery. Thunderbird supports the internet standard access methods POP3 and IMAP4. Thunderbird will acknowledge finding the server settings, all as described in the original post.Īt the bottom of EACH server field, IMAP and SMTP, change the login name to your real email address. Use the password field, place your actual password.ĥ) Click TEST. In your email address you MUST place a fake email that ends in. (If you get asked to create an Oracle account, there is a small-print 'Skip this step' if you know to look for it.There's no need to use any of the Outlook clients or add-ons, I have figured out the solution to get Outlook365 via GoDaddy to work on Thunderbird.Ģ) Delete ALL existing GoDaddy Office365 accounts PLUS their saved passwords from Thunderbird. At the time of writing the appropriate download file is jre-10.0.1_windows-圆4_bin.exe. Download the JRE from the Java download page. Manual Procedures to add Office 365 Mail to Thunderbird Click on Skip & use my existing email option to configure the Office profile. The installation pre-requisite is Oracle Java. I've been using it for about five years now, and IME it's solid and reliable.

On the Office365 side it talks the native protocols. I do have other folders in Office 365 and I would like to access them from Thunderbird. To Thunderbird it looks like IMAP for receiving email, SMTP for sending it, and LDAP for address book queries. However I only see three folders: Inbox, Sent and Trash. This is a Java applet that runs in the background on your Windows 10 PC. The easiest way that I have found is to use the Davmail connector.

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