For several years now I’ve been getting email sent to my Godaddy domain on Thunderbird. But Godaddy has changed and now requires the user to get email through Microsoft Exchange. I know I should be able to get my email still through Thunderbird, but my feeble elderly brain can’t figure out how to do so.
I obviously have a username and password for the Godaddy domain. I also have an outlook.com email and password. Do I need anything else? How the heck do I set up Thunderbird to continue to get my email?
Please explain it as you would to a five-year-old. I’m thinking that’s probably not too advanced for me.
If there really is an issue, I wouldn’t expect it to be any sort of blocking, so much as some sort of incompatibility with some encryption standards on the Exchange server and Thunderbird.
That said, I would think that would be remedied by making sure you have the latest version of Thunderbird. I suspect it’s just a matter of getting the right settings.
Does GoDaddy do something different for email than SMTP?
Maybe you are right and they are doing some unique encryption. I dunno. I cannot find any talk about this on a quick Google search (admittedly I did not try very hard).
You may have to configure you email server using the godaddy website ? enable imap and smtp for example. Then change the servers in your account to be outlook.com servers… thunderbird should work it out, eg using security, tls…