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[[!meta title="Emailing and reading news with Thunderbird"]]
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Tails includes *Thunderbird* for:
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[[!toc levels=2]]
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To start *Thunderbird* choose **Applications ▸ Internet ▸ Thunderbird**.
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<div class="tip">
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<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>
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</div>
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For more documentation, visit the official [*Thunderbird* Support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/thunderbird) website.
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<div class="bug">
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<h1 id="account">Configuring an email account</h1>
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When starting *Thunderbird* for the first time, an assistant appears to guide you through the process of configuring *Thunderbird* to access your email account.
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<div class="tip">
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<p>To start this assistant again in the future from the main window of
<i>Thunderbird</i>, choose
<b>[[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Menu" class=symbolic link=no]]&nbsp;▸ Account Settings</b>
and then, from the <b>Account Settings</b>
dialog, choose <b>Account Actions</b>&nbsp;▸
<b>Add Mail Account&hellip;</b>.</p>
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</div>
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Enter your name, email address, and password into the corresponding fields.
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Click **Continue**.
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The assistant tries to configure automatically the correct settings to connect to your email provider based on your email address.
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If the automatic configuration fails, consult your email provider
about how to configure your email account manually.
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If the automatic configuration succeeds, you might have to specify which protocol to use to connect to your email provider, either **IMAP** or **POP**.
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- 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.
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