Generic Mail Configuration

Generic Mail Configuration Info

Make sure your client supports at least one of CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, STARTTLS, or SSL (pretty much every modern IMAP client does).

Prerequisites

• A CSAIL IMAP Account which will be configured into your mail app
• Knowing your IMAP password which you will enter when retrieving mail

Configuration

• imap.csail.mit.edu as the incoming (IMAP) server.
  • enable TLS if the client supports it (on port 143), otherwise enable SSL (on port 993)
  • if prompted, choose CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication
• outgoing.csail.mit.edu as the outgoing (SMTP) server
  • enable SMTP authentication and enable TLS
  • use port 587 (instead of port 25)
  • if prompted, choose CRAM-MD5 as the authentication method

Usernames and email addressses

Your mail software may want you to provide your full email address (ending in @csail.mit.edu), but you need to make sure it uses only your CSAIL username (the part before @csail.mit.edu) when logging into our servers (imap.csail.mit.edu for reading mail and outgoing.csail.mit.edu for sending mail). Generally there’s a “Username” field associated with each server.