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− | + | Apple's Mac OS X comes with many useful tools, one of which is Mail.app - an email client with a lot of nice features. While we don't support Mail.app directly, there's not a lot of problems with using it (I used it myself for quite some time, until a bug with a [[GPG]] plugin made me switch to [[Thunderbird]] entirely --[[User:Huston|huston]]). | |
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− | Account Type: IMAP | + | == Configuring access to mail.astro == |
− | + | #If this is the first time you've launched Mail, you'll be greeted with the New Account Assistant. If you've opened it before, you may instead need to go to Mail -> Preferences, select Accounts, and click the plus sign | |
− | + | # In the first dialog, set the following: | |
− | + | #* Account Type: IMAP | |
− | + | #* Account Description: (Anything will do, to distinguish this from any other accounts) | |
− | + | #* Full Name: <Your Name> | |
− | + | #* Email Address: <tt>youremailaddress@astro.princeton.edu</tt> | |
− | + | # Click Continue | |
− | + | # Next dialog: | |
− | + | #* Incoming Mail Server: <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt> | |
− | + | #* User Name: <Your user name> | |
− | + | #* Password: <Your password> | |
− | + | # Click Continue. | |
− | + | #: Mail will check the settings to make sure they work. If you're inside the building and plugged into a wired ethernet port it'll work fine, if not, ignore any error you get as it will not work from outside our firewall without some changes later on. | |
− | + | # Then: | |
− | + | #* Outgoing Mail Server: <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt> | |
− | + | #* Check the box for Use Authentication | |
− | + | #* User Name: <Your user name> | |
− | You'll see an account summary dialog. | + | #* Password: <Your password> |
− | + | # Click Continue. | |
− | If you used the initial setup wizard to setup the account, go up to the Mail menu and select Preferences, then the Accounts option. Make sure "mail.astro" is selected. | + | #: Once again, Mail will check settings and may fail. Ignore this. |
− | + | # You'll see an account summary dialog. Click Continue. Click Done in the next dialog. | |
− | Under "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" | + | # If you used the initial setup wizard to setup the account, go up to the Mail menu and select Preferences, then the Accounts option. Make sure "mail.astro" is selected. |
− | + | # Under "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" click the "Server Settings..." button. | |
− | + | #: Make sure "Server port" is set to 25 and that "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" is checked. Click OK. | |
− | + | # Click the "Advanced" tab and make sure at the bottom of the dialog box "Port" is set to 993 and "Use SSL" is checked. | |
− | Close the Accounts box and you'll be prompted to save the settings if you've made any changes. Do so and you should be ready to go. | + | # Close the Accounts box and you'll be prompted to save the settings if you've made any changes. Do so and you should be ready to go. |
Revision as of 20:20, 9 May 2007
Apple's Mac OS X comes with many useful tools, one of which is Mail.app - an email client with a lot of nice features. While we don't support Mail.app directly, there's not a lot of problems with using it (I used it myself for quite some time, until a bug with a GPG plugin made me switch to Thunderbird entirely --huston).
Configuring access to mail.astro
- If this is the first time you've launched Mail, you'll be greeted with the New Account Assistant. If you've opened it before, you may instead need to go to Mail -> Preferences, select Accounts, and click the plus sign
- In the first dialog, set the following:
- Account Type: IMAP
- Account Description: (Anything will do, to distinguish this from any other accounts)
- Full Name: <Your Name>
- Email Address: youremailaddress@astro.princeton.edu
- Click Continue
- Next dialog:
- Incoming Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
- User Name: <Your user name>
- Password: <Your password>
- Click Continue.
- Mail will check the settings to make sure they work. If you're inside the building and plugged into a wired ethernet port it'll work fine, if not, ignore any error you get as it will not work from outside our firewall without some changes later on.
- Then:
- Outgoing Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
- Check the box for Use Authentication
- User Name: <Your user name>
- Password: <Your password>
- Click Continue.
- Once again, Mail will check settings and may fail. Ignore this.
- You'll see an account summary dialog. Click Continue. Click Done in the next dialog.
- If you used the initial setup wizard to setup the account, go up to the Mail menu and select Preferences, then the Accounts option. Make sure "mail.astro" is selected.
- Under "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" click the "Server Settings..." button.
- Make sure "Server port" is set to 25 and that "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" is checked. Click OK.
- Click the "Advanced" tab and make sure at the bottom of the dialog box "Port" is set to 993 and "Use SSL" is checked.
- Close the Accounts box and you'll be prompted to save the settings if you've made any changes. Do so and you should be ready to go.