I have email on thunderbird working fine receiving messages from my isp Virgin media, is it possible to use a gmail imap account at the same time, and how?
As above I want to find out how to pull messages to my laptop from both my current ISP, which is virgin media.com, and also from my gmail account, which is configured for IMAP. I have read the instructions from gmail, yet could not find out how or where to set this up in thunderbird.
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Yes: Create a new exisitng mail account for the existing gmail email address.
File > New > Exisitng Mail account or Menu icon > New Messages > Exisitng Mail account.
The Thunderbird Mail account wizard window will appear. Enter your name Enter full email address Enter password - the same one you use to logon to see your gmail emails in your webmail account. Select to remember password. Click on Continue.
Thunderbird will look up the configuration files. Usually, it auto checks for IMAP, so you should not need to alter anything. When it has located server settings, click on 'Done'. this will create the imap mail account in Thunderbird.
Once this has been done, check settings. You can locate them either; Tools > Account Settings for the mail account or Menu icon > Options > Account Settings or right click on mail accoutn in FolderPane and select 'Settings'.
This link tells you what the settings should be. You will need to select the 'Thunderbird' option to see full info.
Additional helpful info:
Suggest you do not subscribe to see 'All Mail' folder. It is only gmails archive of all your emails, so subscribing to see this folder will double the size of your profile and may cause some slowdown in performance.