To configure your Apple Mail application for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to send and receive email using our servers using IMAP and SMTP over SSL/TLS, please follow the steps below. Please replace:
[email protected] with your email address example.com with your domain name your_server.com with your server's host name (you can find your server's host name listed in the upper left corner of your Control Panel)
1. Open Apple Mail.
2. Choose "Mail" -> "Preferences..."3. Open the "Accounts" tab and click on the "+" / "Create an account" button.4. Set "Account Type" to "IMAP".In the "Account Description" field you need to enter a short description for your account in your email client. This name would show up only in your own email program. You can set a name such as "Work Account", "Sales mail", "John" etc.In the "Full Name" field you should enter the name, which you would like to appear on the messages you send. In the "Email Address" field you should type the email address you are configuring -
[email protected] on the "Continue" button.5. For "Incoming Mail Server", you should use mail.your_server.comIn the "User Name" field you need to enter
[email protected] the "Password" field you need to fill in the current password for this particular mailbox.Click on "Continue".6. For "Outgoing Mail Server" you can use mail.your_server.comCheck "Use Authentication" and enter
[email protected] in the "User Name" field and the corresponding password in thee "Password" field.Click on "Continue".7. You need to verify your settings, and confirm them. To proceed with the configuration, click "Continue". If you want to change some of the settings, click "Go Back".8. Click on "Done".9. You should see the new mail account listed in the "Accounts" section. Click on the "Server Settings..." button.10. Choose "Server port" and enter 587.Make sure that "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" is checked. As authentication method you can use here "Password" or "MD5 Challenge-Response".Click on "OK".11. Click on "Advanced" and enter INBOX in the "IMAP Path Prefix" field. Make sure that you are using port 993, that "Use SSL" is checked and that the authentication method is "Password".