{"id":1676,"date":"2016-05-14T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seed4.me\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:20:11","slug":"thunderbird-gmail-for-vpn-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/thunderbird-gmail-for-vpn-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring Thunderbird+GMail for VPN connection using SSL and IMAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/mail\/\" target=\"_blank\">our series How to manually configure your Mail client<\/a> so it will work with Seed4.Me VPN service.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases Thunderbird will provide simple Automatic setup of popular Email providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Yandex Mail when you are creating a new account.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn\u2019t work with the VPN connection, you definitely need to configure account manually and follow our instruction.<\/p>\n<p>At first, make sure you have the following details, which can be supplied by your Email provider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incoming mail server (IMAP)<\/li>\n<li>Outgoing mail server (SMTP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>5 simple steps to setup Mail working with VPN:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Launch the Thunderbird application, right-click on your Account in the left Sidebar and choose <strong>Settings<\/strong> in the drop down menu.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1678\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_1.png\" alt=\"Configure Thunderbird to work with VPN - Step 1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_1.png 600w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_1-199x150.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2.<\/strong> In the opened window click on your Account again and choose the <strong>Server Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> In the Server Settings fill in the Server Name, <strong>your Incoming mail server<\/strong>, and the Port with <strong>993<\/strong>. And Press OK.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1679\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_2.png\" alt=\"Configure Thunderbird to work with VPN - Step 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_2.png 600w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_2-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_2-177x150.png 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4.<\/strong> Click on the Outgoing Server (SMTP) under Local Folders, add a new server or press Edit button, if you already set it up.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1680\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_3.png\" alt=\"Configure Thunderbird to work with VPN - Step 3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_3.png 600w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_3-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_3-176x150.png 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5.<\/strong> In the opened window fill in the Server Name, <strong>your Outgoing mail server<\/strong>, and the Port with <strong>465<\/strong>. And Press OK and click Save to save your changes.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1681\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_4.png\" alt=\"Configure Thunderbird to work with VPN - Step 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_4.png 600w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_4-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thunderbird_step_4-198x150.png 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you did everything as instructed and Thunderbird still doesn\u2019t work with VPN, try to restart your PC and open application again.<br \/>\nIf you need help, you can write your question in the comments below or <a title=\"Help me to setup Thunderbird\" href=\"mailto:support@seed4.me\" target=\"_blank\">contact our support<\/a> directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our series How to manually configure your Mail client so it will work with Seed4.Me VPN service. In most cases Thunderbird will provide simple Automatic setup of popular Email providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Yandex Mail when you are creating a new account. If it doesn\u2019t work with the VPN connection, you definitely&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/thunderbird-gmail-for-vpn-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Configuring Thunderbird+GMail for VPN connection using SSL and IMAP\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[42,99,97,98,37,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexahub.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}