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I want to add a second email address on my Thunderbird account. How do I do that, thank you.

I want to add a second email address on my Thunderbird account. How do I do that, Thank you very much.

I want to add a second email address on my Thunderbird account. How do I do that, Thank you very much.

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Press Alt-e and choose Account Settings from the drop-down menu that appears. At the bottom of the left-hand column of the screen that opens is am "Account Actions" button. Click that then Add Mail Account.

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I've tried that, and instead of seeing an add account screen it came up with Set Up Your Existing Email Address, which obviously is the email address that Thunderbird located when I first installed it. So, how do we add a second account?

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If you want a second e-mail account you'll have to obtain that from an e-mail provider before you can use it in Thunderbird. HotMail/Outlook and GMail are well known a search for "Free e-mail account" will find plenty more.

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I already have the second email account, I just want to add it my existing one on TB. In other words I need to have two email accounts using a single copy of TB.

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In that case enter the details into the "Set Up Your Existing Email Address" screen.

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Won't this override my existing account?

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No. You can add as many as you wish to.

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I entered the second account details, restarted TB, and saw that now the incoming account had changed to the new account. However, I could no longer see emails arriving for my first account. I changed back to my first account, restarted, and there was no sign of the second account. I checked this by creating a new mail and attempting to send from the second account, but it wasn't presented it as an option. I may have been spoilt by Outlook, that combines the two accounts in a seamless way, but I think it would be a good feature for TB.

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I have two e-mail accounts connected to Thunderbird and set them up in the way I've detailed above.

I entered the second account details, restarted TB, and saw that now the incoming account had changed to the new account.

I don't honestly know what you mean by "the incoming account" as both are incoming and outgoing. Both your accounts should be showing in the folder tree to the left in a similar way.

Take my set-up as an example, screenshot below. If I want to look at my HotMail Inbox I click 'Inbox' under 'HotMail.' If I want to see my GMail one I click 'Inbox' under 'GMail.' If I want to look at a signal I've sent from Hotmail I click 'Sent' under 'Hotmail.' I can drag and drop things from folders on one account to the other as I wish.

If I'm in a Hotmail folder and click 'Write' the message will be sent from that account. If I'm in a Gmail one it'll be sent from that. I can switch to the other in the composition window by clicking the down-pointing arrow at the end of the 'From' field.

I've never used Outlook, though would still be using Outlook Express if I could.

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I started again from the beginning and, as you said, I ended up with both accounts listed. I must have thought I'd created a second account when I hadn't. Thanks for your perseverence. You have been most helpful.

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Glad you got there in the end.

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