Home > EMail - Setting Up Thunderbird 24 for Mac OS X Using IMAP
1- Start your new account setup
  • Open Thunderbird.
  • Select Tools and then click Account Settings
  • Select Account Actions
  • Select Add Mail Account
2- Add your account identity information.
  • Enter your name, EMail address and EMail password. (Remember password is automatically selected once the password is entered)
  • Click Continue.
  • After process is complete, click Manual config
3- Add server information.
  • Under Configuration found by trying common server names section, verify that the incoming server is set to like : mail.micro-life.com with change micro-life.com to your domain, Type: IMAP, Port to: 993, and security method to: SSL/TLS
  • Change Outgoing server to: mail.micro-life.com with change micro-life.com to your domain, Port to: 465, and security method to: SSL/TLS
  • Click Re-test
  • Click Done, after Thunderbird has verified the settings for your email account
  • Click OK
4- Finish your setup.
  • Click Get mail to retrieve mail.
  • When prompted to enter your password for the the SMTP server
    • Enter your EMail password
  • If the Internet Security Warning window pops up, click Yes.
  • Now your computer can send and receive e-mail securely with Thunderbird.