However, there are other options out there. We know email isn’t the most exciting topic but most of us have to use it in our daily lives and, for those not in the know, you may have found yourself simply fleeting between Microsoft Outlook and Google’s Gmail. It’s called Thunderbird, and here’s how it stacks up against Outlook. But you might not know about Mozilla’s, the company behind the Firefox browser, email client. When you run into trouble post back and let us know what's happening.Everyone has heard of Microsoft Outlook, right? That’s whether you use it personally or at work. Get yourself a cuppa for your nerves, a pencil and paper to make notes with and dive in. ![]() For Authentication method choose normal password. In Thunderbird, for connection security choose SSL/TLS. You will get a security complaint and you need to accept that POP3 (according to Google) is less secure than IMAP. You will need to configure gmail to accept POP3. You will need to manually sign into your gmail account and enter the setup section which took me forever to find. One of my frustrations is that it took me all day to discover that for my user name they wanted my email address. Your migration might be easy or it might take hours and hours and be frustrating. Just remember, it's not a bible and your settings may be different. The instructions in this link are reasonably good. For those of us who still used POP3 the migration was a nightmare. ![]() A year ago my long suffering ISP made a deal with Google and migrated its email service to gmail.
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