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== Configuring access to mail.astro ==
 
== 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
 
#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
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# In the first dialog, set the following:
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# In the first dialog, select "'''Other Mail Account...'''" and hit '''Continue'''
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#* Account Type: IMAP
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# Next, enter your name (as you want it to appear on your email), Email address (username@astro.princeton.edu), and Password, and hit '''Sign In'''
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#* Account Description: (Anything will do, to distinguish this from any other accounts)
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#* You may get an error message "Unable to verify account name or password. This is fine.
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#* Full Name: <Your Name>
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# Now fill out the dialog as follows:
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#* Email Address: <tt>youremailaddress@astro.princeton.edu</tt>
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#* '''Username''': <username>
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# Click Continue
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#* ''Note, do *not* add the @astro.princeton.edu suffix''
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# Next dialog:
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#* '''Password''': <your password>
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#* Incoming Mail Server: <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt>
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#* '''Account Type''': <tt>IMAP</tt>
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#* User Name: <Your user name>
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#* '''Incoming Mail Server''': <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt>
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#* Password: <Your password>
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#* '''Outgoing Mail Server''': <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt>
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# Click Continue.
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# Click '''Sign In'''
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#: 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.
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# In the "Select the apps you want to use with this account" dialog, only check "Mail". Hit '''Done'''.
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# Then:
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#* Outgoing Mail Server: <tt>mail.astro.princeton.edu</tt>
 
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#* Make sure the port is set to '587' instead of '25'
 
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#* Check the box for Use Authentication
 
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#* User Name: <Your user name>
 
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#* Password: <Your password>
 
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# Click Continue.
 
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#: Once again, Mail will check settings and may fail.  Ignore this.
 
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# You'll see an account summary dialog.  Click Continue.  Click Done in the next dialog.
 
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# 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.
 
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# Under "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" click the "Server Settings..." button.
 
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#: Make sure "Server port" is set to 587 and that "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" is checked.  Click OK.
 
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# Click the "Advanced" tab and make sure at the bottom of the dialog box "Port" is set to 993 and "Use SSL" is checked.
 
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# 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.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 17:46, 22 July 2022

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).

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Configuring access to mail.astro

  1. 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
  2. In the first dialog, select "Other Mail Account..." and hit Continue
  3. Next, enter your name (as you want it to appear on your email), Email address (username@astro.princeton.edu), and Password, and hit Sign In
    • You may get an error message "Unable to verify account name or password. This is fine.
  4. Now fill out the dialog as follows:
    • Username: <username>
    • Note, do *not* add the @astro.princeton.edu suffix
    • Password: <your password>
    • Account Type: IMAP
    • Incoming Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
    • Outgoing Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
  5. Click Sign In
  6. In the "Select the apps you want to use with this account" dialog, only check "Mail". Hit Done.
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