Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion Initial

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Concept

This document describes the procedures for setting up the Mozilla Thunderbird email client to download messages from Google Mail™ using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) with the Mac® OS X Lion operating system. IMAP synchronizes the actions you take in the Thunderbird client with Google Mail so if you read or delete a message in the client, it will be marked as such in the Google Mail interface. These instructions are intended for users that already have an active CWRU Google Mail account and want to set up the Thunderbird email client for the first time.

Procedure

Step Action 1. Open your web browser and navigate to: “webmail.case.edu”. Enter your CWRU Network ID and password and then click the LOGIN button.

Step Action 2. The Google Mail inbox window will open. Click the Settings icon (resembling a gear) in the top right corner of the window.

3. Select the Settings menu option.

Step Action 4. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP menu option.

5. Click the Disable POP radio button to select it.

6. Click the Enable IMAP radio button to select it.

Step Action 7. Scroll to the bottom of the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings window and then click the Save Changes button.

Sign out of the Google Mail web interface.

Step Action 8. Enter “http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird” into your browser address bar and press the Enter key. 9. Click the Thunderbird Free Download button.

Step Action

10. The Thunderbird email client installation package will begin to download.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 11. Click on the desktop to view the Finder menu in the menu bar. Click Go and select Downloads to view files downloaded to your computer.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 12. Double click the Thunderbird.13.0.1.dmg file to begin the installation process.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 13. Click and drag the Thunderbird icon into the Applications folder to copy the program files to your computer.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 14. Click on the desktop to view the Finder menu in the menu bar. Click Go and select Applications to view the applications installed on your computer.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 15. Double click the Thunderbird icon to open it. When asked if you are sure you want to open it, select Open.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 16. Click the check boxes next to any email providers listed to deselect them. In this example, we click the check box next to the Hover.com option to deselect it.

17. Click the Skip this and use my existing email button.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 18. Enter your name as you would like it displayed on your outgoing email into the Your name field. 19. Enter your CWRU email address ([email protected]) into the Email address field. 20. Enter your Google Apps password into the Password field and ensure the Remember password block is checked. 21. Click the Continue button.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 22. The Thunderbird setup wizard will attempt to connect to Google Mail.

23. When the setup wizard fails to find the email settings for your Google Mail account, you must enter them manually.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 24. Enter “imap.gmail.com” into the Incoming Server hostname field. 25. Enter “993” into the Incoming Server Port block (or select it from the drop down menu). 26. Select the SSL/TLS item from the drop down menu.

27. Enter “smtp.cwru.edu” into the Outgoing Server hostname field. 28. Enter “25” into the Outgoing Server Port block (or select it from the drop down menu). 29. Select the STARTTLS item from the drop down menu.

30. Click the Re-test button.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 31. The Thunderbird setup program will attempt to configure your CWRU Google Mail with the settings you provided.

32. When the setup program has finished configuring the settings, click the Create Account button.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 33. You can deselect the Always perform this check when starting Thunderbird option and select the Newsgroup option by clicking the associated check boxes.

34. Click the OK button.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 35. The Thunderbird email client will download your CWRU Google Mail.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 36. To manage your email account settings, click the Tools menu.

37. Click the Account Settings... menu item.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 38. Click the Outgoing Server (SMTP) menu item.

39. Select your email account and click Edit...

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 40. Enter “CWRU Google Mail” into the Description field. 41. Enter your CWRU Network ID into the User Name field. All other fields should be filled in properly from the initial setup. 42. Click the OK button to save your changes and exit.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 43. Click the Composition & Addressing menu item.

44. The default Thunderbird option for email replies will start the reply thread after the original message.

45. Under the Composition header, you can use the drop down menu to change the default option to: start my reply above the quote.

Initial Setup of Mozilla® Thunderbird® with IMAP for OS X® Lion

Step Action 46. Click the menu item depicting your email address.

47. In the data field beneath Signature text you may enter an email signature using html code or attach a signature in the form of an html or picture file. 48. Click the OK button to save your changes and exit.

49. End of Procedure.