Combining several accounts, all with the same provider and server settings
I have have my own domain and have recently changed my ISP and email providers to consolidate all my accounts into one. They now all have exactly the same server settings (IONOS) but with different User Names. Inbound emails seem to be appearing in any one of the 4 accounts without any visible form of discrimination and some appear on my phone email app (using the Google mail app) but not on my PC (using Thunderbird). I can also send emails from one but not the others. Any help as to how to combine the accounts into one user name would be greatly appreciated so that all incoming emails appear on both. Thanks Laurie Benn
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A few months ago I also moved a personal domain I was using for mail to another ISP. IONOS is one of the options I considered, but discarded precisely because it didn't seem to allow having multiple email addresses under a single mail account, so I very much doubt you'll be able to accomplish what you want with them. You may have to create different account settings (different username) for each email address you want to have there, and maybe even for both the incoming and the outgoing server.
Doing that for the incoming server settings may be tedious but should be straightforward. Getting things right for the outgoing server settings is going to be trickier, though, because of the confusing way in which Thunderbird handles this situation.
When you setup a new account, Thunderbird reuses existing outgoing server settings that may already exist as a result of having previously created another account for the same server (but different username / email address), without telling you those settings are being shared across multiple accounts nor giving you the option to create new separate outgoing server settings specific for this account during the account setup process.
Thunderbird lets you create and manage multiple outgoing server settings for the same server, though, just not from within the main account settings. You have to do that from a separate Outgoing Server (SMTP) settings pane you may open by selecting the corresponding option at the bottom of the list of accounts in Account Settings. The following article has a screenshot that illustrates what I'm talking about:
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/cannot-send-messages
You can add there as many settings for the same outgoing server as you need, with each entry having its own username, and then assign the right outgoing server settings to each account in the main account settings.
So make sure you get all of that right first, then we may look at other issues you also seem to have…