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 new accounts

IMAP

Open up Mail by clicking on its icon in the dock. You can also open it by double-clicking its icon in the applications folder. If this is your first time opening Mail, it will ask you to set up your Mail account. If it does not, simply click continue and then skip to step 4.

1. Go to the upper left corner of your screen and click on Mail > 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 complete the rest of the information as shown below, substituting your own name and e-mail 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 complete your login and incoming mail server information as below, substituting your e-mail username and e-mail account password for what is shown here. Click continue.

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

7. You should now be presented with a summary of what you have done. Click continue after you have 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. Here, 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 e-mail.

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

Editing an existing account

Open up Mail by going to the dock, and clicking on its 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 corner of your screen and click on Mail > 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

Windows computers may not receive your attachments correctly. To ensure everybody receives your e-mail attachments, you need to follow these steps.

1. Open up Apple Mail
2. From your menu bar, select Edit > Attachments.
3. Ensure that "Always send Windows friendly attachments" is selected.

Signatures

To manage your signatures, you need to bring up the signatures management dialog:

1. When you are in Mac Mail, click on Mail > Preferences.
2. Click on Signatures on the Preferences toolbar.

Creating

1. To create a new signature, click the (+) in the signatures management dialog.
2. In order to access your new signature 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.

Editing

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.

Subscribing to folders

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