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Set up Thunderbird with Office 365

These are the steps you need to follow to set up your Thunderbird email client for your QMUL email account.

Requirements

  • Desktop/laptop with Thunderbird installed. You must use Thunderbird 77.0b1 or later.
  • QMUL username and password

Steps to configure Thunderbird for Office 365

1. Start your Thunderbird client.

2. Click the cog icon down left and then choose Account Settings

 

 

3. Select Account Actions and then Add Mail Account

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Type in your full name and your QMUL username (in the format of abc123@qmul.ac.uk).

Important: do not type in your password on the login screen seen below. Click Continue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thunderbird will automatically discover and fill in the server settings for your account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click Done and cancel the password prompt window that pops up.

5. Go to Account Settings ­­-> Server Settings and change Connection security to SSL/TLS and the Authentication method to OAuth2

 

 

 

 

6. Go to Outgoing Server (SMTP) settings and change the Connection security to STARTTLS and Authentication method to OAuth2 and click OK.

 

 

 

As authentication methods are set to OAuth you’ll get prompted for Microsoft login. Login using your QMUL credentials: abc123@qmul.ac.uk and then your password.

 

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