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

Configuration

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.