<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>
When starting <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> to access your email account.
<p>To start this assistant again in the future from the main window of <span class="application">Thunderbird</span>, choose <span class="menuchoice"> <span class="guimenu">[[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Menu" class=symbolic link=no]]</span> ▸ <span class="guimenuitem">Account Settings</span> </span> and then, from the <span class="guilabel">Account Settings</span> dialog, choose <span class="guilabel">Account Actions</span> ▸ <span class="guilabel">Add Mail Account…</span>.</p>
If the automatic configuration succeeds, you might have to specify which protocol to use to connect to your email provider, either <span class="guilabel">IMAP</span> or <span class="guilabel">POP</span>.
- With <span class="guilabel">IMAP</span>, <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> 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.
- With <span class="guilabel">POP</span>, <span class="application">Thunderbird</span> downloads the emails that are in the inbox on the server and possibly deletes them from the server. POP is better suited if you access your emails from Tails only and store them in the Persistent Storage.