POP Account - Thunderbird
Steps to Configure your NIC eMail Account as POP in Thunderbird
Note
IMAP/POP feature is not available for your account. To enable it, please reach out to your Delegated/Department Administrator.
- Enable POP in the NIC eMail interface.
- Launch Thunderbird application in your system.
- Navigate to Tools and select Account Settings.
- At the bottom of the left pane, click Account Actions and select Add new account.
- Enter your name, your NIC eMail address, and your NIC eMail address's password.
- Once done, click Configure manually.
- Select the Protocol as POP3.
- Once done, provide the POP3 and SMTP server details.
- You may require an Application Specific password to set up the account on other devices if Two Factor Authentication is enabled for your account.
- In the Server Hostname, provide pop.mgovcloud.in for Incoming and smtp.mgovcloud.in for Outgoing.
- Select the port numbers to be '995' and '465' respectively.
- Make sure that the Authentication type is 'Normal Password' for both servers.
- Provide the complete NIC eMail address as your username.
- Click Done to save the changes. Clicking Test might give an error message and reset the settings you configured.