Apple Mail

Prerequisites

• A CSAIL IMAP Account which will be configured into your mail app
• Knowing your IMAP password

Instructions

1. Open Apple Settings Internet Accounts Add an Account

2. At the “Add Account” window enter your full CSAIL email address. Click continue.

3. Select “Add Other Account” “Mail Account

4. Enter the Following:

   • Name Your full name as you want it to appear to others
   • email address: Your full CSAIL email address
   • Password: Your CSAIL IMAP Password (this is unique from your CSAIL Kerberos password)

5. You will receive the message “Unable to verify account name or password.”

6. Enter the Following to add the account manually:

   • Email Address: Your CSAIL Email Address
   • User Name Your CSAIL username (not your entire email address?)
   • Password: Your CSAIL IMAP Password (this is unique from your CSAIL Kerberos password)
   • Incoming Mail Server: imap.csail.mit.edu
   • Outgoing Mail Server: outgoing.csail.mit.edu
   • double check that your username did not get changed. Sometimes Apple mail tries to set it back to your email address.

7. Click “Sign in”

8. Click Next deselect Notes click Done

9. By default, Apple Mail will save sent items to “Sent Messages” and Trash to “Deleted Messages”. To share the standard name of these folders, as used by Thunderbird and other IMAP clients:

   • In the folder list (you may need to click “Show” in the top left), navigate underneath “CSAIL.MIT.EDU” to select “Sent”.
   • In the Mailbox menu, choose Use This Mailbox For > Sent. The folder will disappear, becoming “Sent” under “MAILBOXES” further up.
   • Repeat for Trash.
   • The folders “Sent Messages” and “Deleted Items” will appear below; after checking for contents you may delete them.

You are now ready to use Apple Mail

Optional steps

User database auto-completion: See LDAP Directory Lookup

Shared folders: To see mail folders shared by other users, go to Mail Preferences Advanced IMAP Path Prefix and change “INBOX” to "” (blank). Your own mail folders will now show underneath Mailboxes Inbox, while shared folders will show underneath “CSAIL IMAP”. If Mail suggests reverting the prefix to “INBOX”, tell it “Don’t Change.”