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

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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 Add mail account.

Step 3 - Creating new account

Fill in all the information necessary and click Continue. Your e-mail adress is "name.surnameXX@upol.cz and password is the one you set up in portal.

Step 4 - Manual configuration

Thunderbird will try to detect all the necessary settings, which will not be successful, and it will detect all the incorrect settings. Choose option Manual config.

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.