Anonymizer Total Net Shield – Thunderbird Email Configuration

Open Thunderbird and click on Tools>Account Settings.

Once in the Account Settings, click on ‘Add Account’ at the bottom left.

Select ‘Email Account’ and click Next.

Next screen for Identity, enter your Name and your Anonymizer Email address, this is yourusername@mail.anonymizer.com. Click Next to continue.

On the Server Information window select the POP server and enter, localhost, for the Incoming Server address. Click Next to continue.

Enter your Anonymizer Username that you created in the ‘Incoming Username’ field and enter the same username for the Outgoing as well.

Choose an Account Name for the name of this email account, you can choose anything like, Home, Work, or Anonymizer, etc. Click Next to continue.

Next window is the completion of the Setup. Click Finish to save the settings.

Select ‘Outgoing Server (SMTP)’ to the left and click on ‘Advanced’ to the right.

Choose ‘Add’ for a new Outgoing Server.

Open the Anonymizer settings to the left and click on ‘Server Settings’, then click ‘Advanced’ to the lower right.

Click on the SMTP tab at the top left. Click on the arrow to show the list of Outgoing servers you have. Select the Anonymizer server, localhost:25. Click OK and you are now all set up to send/receive secure email through the Anonymizer email account. Please make sure to send a test email to and from this account to make sure everything is working properly.

Click on ‘Server Settings’ and make sure ‘Leave messages on server’ is NOT checked.
*For the privacy of our customers we do NOT backup our mail servers. Once the messages are downloaded to your computer they can NOT be recovered.