<p>To store your emails, feeds, and settings across different working sessions, turn on the [[ThunderbirdEmail 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>.