Apple Mail 2.x for Mac OS X 10.4.x
- Follow the instructions on the MTL Certificate Page in order to download the MTL CA for Mac OS X 10.4
- Open Mail. If this is the first time you have used Mail, the application will start by guiding you through setting up your account. Otherwise:
- Go to the Mail application menu.
- Click on Preferences...
- Select Accounts in the Preferences Window.
- Click the + sign in the lower left of the window.
- An account creation window should now be open.
- General Information
- Account Type :select 'IMAP' from the list
- Account Description :MTL Mail Services
- Full Name: <your name>
- User Name: <your mtl username>
- Password:(leave blank)
- Click Continue
- Incoming Mail Server
- Incoming Mail Server :mtl-pobox.mit.edu
- User Name : <your mtl username>
- Password :(leave blank)
- Click Continue. You may get a message at this point saying that "The IMAP server 'mtl-pobox.mit.edu' is not responding". Ignore it and click Continue again.
- Incoming Mail Security
- Select "User Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)"
- Authentication :<Make sure "Password" is selected>
- Click Continue
- Outgoing Mail Server
- Outgoing Mail Server :mtl.mit.edu
- Select <Use Authentication>
- User Name :<your mtl username>
- Password :(leave blank)
- Click Continue. You may get a message at this point saying that "Trying to log into the SMTP server 'mtl.mit.edu' has failed". Ignore it and click Continue again.
- Outgoing Mail Security
- Select "User Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)"
- Authentication :<Make sure "Password" is selected>
- Click Continue
- Account Summary
- Verify the information entered and click Continue.
- Click Done
- To set-up the way Mail takes cared of deleted and sent mail
- Go to the Mail application menu.
- Click on Preferences...
- Select Accounts in the Preferences Window.
- Select MTL Mail Services
- Select Mailbox Behaviors
- The boxes for moving deleted messages to Trash and storing the deleted messages on the server should already be selected. You should choose how long you wish to keep deleted messages around. If you only want to empty the trash manually, then select Never from the drop list for Permanently erase deleted messages when:. If you wish to store Draft, Sent, and/or Junk email messages on the server, check the appropriate boxes and select when you want the messages to be deleted, if ever.
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