Mozilla Thunderbird for users with Office 365 cloud email (students and employees)

If you are using Mozilla Thunderbird and you want to add your university e-mail account to it, please, follow the next few steps.

Step 1 - Setting up an account

Click Settings in the upper right corner and choose Account settings.

Step 2 - Add an account

Click the Account actions"" and then choose the Add mail account option.

Step 3 - Creating a new account

Enter your login details and click Continue. Your e-mail adress is in name.surnameXX@upol.cz format and password is the one you've set up in Portal.

Step 4 - Manual configuration

Thunderbird will try to detect the necessary settings, which will not be successful. Then choose the Manual config option.

IMAP server address is outlook.office365.com', port 993 and SSL/TLS. SMTP address is smtp.office365.com, port 587 and set STARTTLS. Your username is PoratlID@upol.cz. Set authentization in IMAP and SMTP to Password, secured transmission. Then click OK.

Now you have successfully set up your account and you can use your mail client.