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Reading Outlook emails in Thunderbird

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Geoff K
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I have an existing Thunderbird installed with a several email accounts - mainly gmail and ISP accounts. Today I requested a new Outlook email account, I got it then I tried to include it in my Thunderbird program. I can see the initial email there but all subsequent emails are not received in T'Bird. I don't want to use the Outlook program to manage these emails. I have had a look at Outlook mail settings but can see nothing obvious there which is stopping emails being forwarded or picked up by T'Bird. I did see an article in the FAQ which says I can import emails from Outlook to T'Bird but it requires me to first install a much older version of T'Bird which I don't want to do.

I have an existing Thunderbird installed with a several email accounts - mainly gmail and ISP accounts. Today I requested a new Outlook email account, I got it then I tried to include it in my Thunderbird program. I can see the initial email there but all subsequent emails are not received in T'Bird. I don't want to use the Outlook program to manage these emails. I have had a look at Outlook mail settings but can see nothing obvious there which is stopping emails being forwarded or picked up by T'Bird. I did see an article in the FAQ which says I can import emails from Outlook to T'Bird but it requires me to first install a much older version of T'Bird which I don't want to do.

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ThundaMike
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You were right to be suspicious, You definitely should not need to install an older version of Thunderbird to get your Outlook emails working.

Okie-doke, let’s roll up our sleeves and fix this. Since you're seeing the first message from your Outlook account but not the newer ones, let's try this first:

Confirm IMAP Setting in t-bird

  • Go to Account Settings in Thunderbird
  • Select your new Outlook account and check the 'Server Settings'
  • IMAP server settings should be: 
        *   imap-mail.outlook.com, 
        *  Port: 993, 
        *  SSL: SSL/TLS
        *  Authentication Type = Normal Password (most likely)

Then go to Thunderbird -> Account Settings -> Edit Outgoing Server


Let me know if this helped!

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