<p>To store your emails, feeds, and settings across different working sessions, turn on the [[Thunderbird|doc/first_steps/Email Client|persistenct_storage/configure#thunderbird]] feature of the Persistent Storage.</p>
<p>To store your emails, feeds, and settings across different working sessions, turn on the [[Thunderbird Email Client|persistent_storage/configure#thunderbird]] feature of the Persistent Storage.</p>
For more detaileddocumentation, refer tovisit the [official [*Thunderbird* helpSupport](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird)website.
<h1 id="account">Configuring an email account</h1>
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When startopening *Thunderbird* for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring *Thunderbird* to access your email account.
When opening *Thunderbird* for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring *Thunderbird* to access your email account.
If the automatic configuration succeeds, you might have to specify which protocol to use to connect to your email provider, either **IMAP** or **POP**.
- With **IMAP**, *Thunderbird* constantly synchronizes with the server and displays the emails and folders that are currently stored on the server. IMAP is better suited if you access your emails from different operating systems.