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why wont thunderbird set up my existing email account

Thunderbird Tips and tricks
user1121639 replied 9 years ago
mikeyp
mikeyp

i have an orangehome email address and thunderbird says its failed to find settings for email account

i have an orangehome email address and thunderbird says its failed to find settings for email account

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user1121639
user1121639

Not all e-mail server settings can be guessed at properly by Thunderbird.

I did some investigative work for you. Try manually entering the settings into Thunderbird that you see in my screenshot below.

Replace "jblow" with your username.