To setup bouncer on Thunderbird first click on the Thunderbird menu button

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then click on "New"

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afterwards click on "chat account"

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choose "irc" option

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enter your nick and server e.g us9.ircnow.org or bnc1.ircnow.org or whatever your server is In this tutorial we are using bnc1. **You should set it to ''us9.ircnow.org'' as opposed to ''bnc1.ircnow.org''.

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enter your nickserv password

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next make sure your port is set to 31337 and "ssl" is checked

once done click on Thunderbird menu again and from there click on "options"

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next click on "options" again

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in the search bar type your username/nick that you had set previously

from here we find our account number which is 6 in our case

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next right click on empty area and click "New" and then "String"

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type messenger.account.accountN.options.serverPassword in the field, N is the number of account. In our case it was 6

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press ok and then enter your bouncer's username and password in the format username/password

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That's all you are done!