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

Setting Up Mail For �鶹��Ƶ Email Access (IMAP)

Open up mail by going to the dock, and selecting it's icon or through 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, 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. Then enter 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, 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 subsequent settings 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 setting 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.

Edit an existing email account

This is basic setup for accounts using Apple Mail for Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. First, open up Mail. Then in the Mail menu go to Preferences. The shortcut to preferences in most programs on Mac OS X is Apple-comma. Once you are in the preferences page, click the accounts tab. Choose your �鶹��Ƶ account. If you need to create a new account, please see the above section.

Account information should match this (with the name and username of whose computer you are working on in place of mine, of course).

In the Outgoing Mail Server menu, you should select the Add Server option.

This is how the outgoing mail server should be configured. Once you have completed, click OK then switch to the Advanced tab.

This is how the advanced tab should look exactly. Once you have finished this, you can close the preferences window. If you changed settings you will be prompted to save them. Click OK. The Mail client should be properly configured now!

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

Coming soon!

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

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 it, click the (+)

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.