Mail.app

From Peyton Hall Documentation

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

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, 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
3. Click Continue
4. Next dialog:
   • Incoming Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
   • User Name: <Your user name>
   • Password: <Your password>
5. 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.

6. Then:
   • Outgoing Mail Server: mail.astro.princeton.edu
   • Make sure the port is set to '587' instead of '25'
   • Check the box for Use Authentication
   • User Name: <Your user name>
   • Password: <Your password>
7. Click Continue.

   Once again, Mail will check settings and may fail. Ignore this.

8. You'll see an account summary dialog. Click Continue. Click Done in the next dialog.
9. 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.
10. Under "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" click the "Server Settings..." button.

    Make sure "Server port" is set to 587 and that "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" is checked. Click OK.

11. Click the "Advanced" tab and make sure at the bottom of the dialog box "Port" is set to 993 and "Use SSL" is checked.
12. 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.