Apple Mail

Apple Mail is an e-mail client for Apple's OS X operating system. It also goes by the name: Mail.app.

Creating A New Account For �鶹��Ƶ Email Access (IMAP)

Open up Mail by going to the dock, and clicking on it's icon. You can also open it by double clicking its icon in the applications folder. If this is your first time opening mail, a screen should pop up asking you to set up your mail account. If it doesn't, go ahead and click continue, and then skip to step 4.

1. The first step is to go to the upper left hand corner of your screen and click on "Mail" then select "Preferences."

2. In the new window click on "Accounts."

3. In the bottom left of that window click on the "+" symbol.

4. In the new window, select IMAP as the account type and fill in the rest of the information as shown below, substituting your own name and username. You can give the account any description you want, "IMAP Account" is the default. When you're finished, click continue.

5. In the subsequent window fill in your login and incoming mail server information as show below, once again substituting your username for what is shown here. The password you will enter is your email account password. After that is completed, click continue.

6. In the next window fill in your authentication and outgoing mail server information as show below, once again substituting your username and password for what is shown here. Make sure you click "Use Authentication." After you're done with that, click continue.

7. You should now be presented with a summary of what you have done. Click continue after you've made sure all the information is correct. The following window informs you that you have successfully set up your mailbox, click "Done."

8. There are still some settings left to change, if your account preferences window is not up, please follow the first two steps to find it again, it should now look something like the image below.

9. In the outgoing server settings section towards the bottom, click on "Server Settings."

10. Change the "Server port" setting to 465 and make sure "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is selected. Also make sure all other settings within this window are as shown below. When finished, click "Ok."

11. You should now be back at the accounts screen, within that screen click on the advanced bar on the upper right, and make sure all your settings are as shown below. Once you have completed this, you can close out of the settings screen and Mail should be completely configured for �鶹��Ƶ Email.

12. If you have any further problems please call the helpline at x6111.

Editing An Existing Email Account

Open up Mail by going to the dock, and clicking on it's icon. You can also open it by double clicking its icon in the applications folder.

1. The first step is to go to the upper left hand corner of your screen and click on "Mail" and then select "Preferences."

2. In the new window click on "Accounts" the window should now look something like the image below. If any of your settings are different, change them to match what is below. Substituting your own username and password.

3. To make sure your outgoing settings are correct, in the outgoing server settings section towards the bottom, click on "Server Settings."

4. Make sure the "Server port" setting is set to 465 and make sure "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is selected. Also make sure all other settings within this window are as shown below. When finished, click "Ok."

5. You should now be back at the accounts screen, within that screen click on the advanced bar on the upper right, and make sure all your settings are as shown below. Once you have completed this, you can close out of the settings screen and Mail should be completely configured for �鶹��Ƶ Email.

6. If you have any further problems please call the helpline at x6111.

Sending Attachments

Sometimes when sending emails with attachments with Mail.app to Windows computers, the Windows user does not receive your attachments correctly. To ensure everybody receives your email attachment, you need to follow these steps.

1. Open up Apple Mail
2. Click on Edit menu at the top.
3. Select Attachments
4. Make sure Always send Windows friendly attachments

How to filter your email with Mail.app's Rules

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How to create/edit your Mail.app's signature

Create

1. Click on the Mail heading when you are in MacMail
2. Click on Preferences
3. Click on Signatures on the Preferences toolbar.
4. To add a signature, click the (+)
5. In order to access it from the drop down menu when creating a new message, click on the new signature and drag it to any accounts you want to be able to use it. In most cases, you will click and drag it to IMAP account.

Edit

1. To edit an existing signature, select the signature you want to edit and change the text in the box to the right of it.
2. To edit the name of the signature, double-click Signature #1, etc, and rename it.

Subscribe to Folders

All folders should be subscribed to automatically. If necessary, close Mail.app and open it up again.