Configuring Streamyx Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird 2

Greetings.

This is the friendly, geeky and nerdy resident tech guy at BenardCometh Revelations again at your service.

After the last post I am sure that all of you missed me very much hence I decided to appear again to do a series of posts regarding Mozilla Thunderbird 2 configurations and maybe other tech related stuff in the future. Any tech related questions, just fire away with no reservations. I can handle whatever you throw at me. If not, I will do a handstand for an entire year to make up for the shame and humiliation.

(Oooo, imagine the things that can be done with the handstand stance. :p)

You know how to configure your TMNet Webmail account in Thunderbird already after the last post so I am going to show you how to configure your Streamyx Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird 2.

(In other words, using your Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to access your Streamyx Mail)

Lets get started. Fire up your Mozilla Thunderbird 2 and go to File>New>Account to start the Account Wizard.

New Account

Choose the email account option and click next to go to the next screen/step.

Account wizard

You will be prompted to enter your name and your email address which in this case should be username@streamyx.com. Example, benard@streamyx.com. After that click next.

(Please note that the email or name have been erased to protect the endangered species avoid getting spam mails. Again, please send your spams over to benardcometh@gmail.com if you really have to. It's not good keep all those negative vibes inside for too long. It's unhealthy.)

Enter your identity

Next up is the server information. The incoming server type is POP and the incoming server name is pop.streamyx.com. Again, only tick the Global Inbox if you want to jumble all mails from different accounts together. If not, untick the Global Inbox check box to have inbox for each different email account.

Just ignore the existing outgoing server SMTP indicated at the bottom part as that will be addressed later.

Server Information

You will be required to enter your incoming user name in the next step. Here you will need to enter username@streamyx.com. For example benard@streamyx.com.

User name

After that you will need to enter your account name. Just put whatever name that pleases you and you can always change the name at the account properties in the future.

Account Name

And that my friends, are the ending of the Account Wizard. You will be shown a summary of your information. However, like what I said in the last post, there are things that need to be confirmed.

Done with Account Wizard

If you tick the download message now check box, you will be prompted to enter your password for your streamyx mail account and you have the freedom to use the Password Manager or not. I would advise not to use Password Manager but IF you have to then remember to set a master password.

(To set up Master Password you need to go to Tools>Options>Privacy>Password)

Next, go to Tools>Account Settings to look at the settings for your newly set up Streamyx Mail account. Or just directly go to the left sidebar abd locate your newly created email account and right click on it then click on properties.

Account properties

Select the email account that you have just created and look at the options. The Account Name you can change to anything that you want to identify Streamyx Mail. The important part here is the email address where you need to make sure it is username@streamyx.com.

Account Settings

After that go to the Server Settings and here you need to make sure that the server type is POP. The server name is pop.streamyx.com and the user name should be username@streamyx.com. Other settings are up to your preferences.

Server Settings

The last part to check would be the Outgoing Server. Click on the outgoing server and click add button to add a new SMTP server. The things that you need to pay attention are the server name and the user name. The server name should be smtp.streamyx.com and the user name should be username@streamyx.com.

SMTP Server

And that is the end of the mini-tutorial. Congratulations, you have configured your Streamyx Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird 2. Now you can access your Streamyx mail account with Thunderbird. "Reclaim Your Inbox" =p

Summary of important information.

Incoming Server Settings

Server Type: POP Mail Server
Server Name: pop.streamyx.com
User Name: username@streamyx.com
(change the username to your own user name)


Outgoing Server Settings

Server Name: smtp.streamyx.com
User Name: username@streamyx.com
(change the username to your own user name)

That is it.

I shall be back for more.

Stay tuned.