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Audience: McMaster Faculty & Staff
Article Date: July 11 , 2012

How to Setup Thunderbird on Mac OSX for use with Univmail

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1. Open Thunderbird.

   

2. At the top of the window, click on "Tools" then "Account Settings..."

3. At the bottom left, click on the "Account Actions" drop down menu and select "Add Mail Account...".

4. Fill in your name as you want it to appear to people receiving email from your account, your email address and your password. If you would like Thunderbird to remember your password, select the checkbox "Remember password". Click Continue.

5. Thunderbird will automaticall try to configure your settings but will not get them correct. Once it allows you, enter your settings to match the following info:

   

   Type: IMAP

   Incoming Server: univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
   Port: 993
   SSL: SSL/TLS
   Authentication: Normal Password

   Outgoing Server: univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
   Port: 465
   SSL: SSL/TLS
   Authentication: Normal Password

   Username: MacID (not your full email address)

6. Click on Create Account