Configuring Apple Macintosh 10.2.X Mail

In order to ensure a secure connection, you must do the following:

IMPORTANT: If you read your mail on more than one computer, be sure you do not use a POP client to work with your email after you begin using IMAP - if you do, you are likely to delete your IMAP mail from the server. Once you have converted to IMAP on one computer, you should reconfigure your other POP clients for IMAP before using them to connect to the mail server.

1. Start Macintosh Mail. From the Mail menu, click Preferences.

2. Choose the Accounts icon.

3. Select the server or account name you use for reading email and click Edit.

4. This will bring up a box labelled "Accounts", with 3 tabs. Choose the tab labeled "Advanced" 
   

5. Check the box "Use SSL", near the bottom. Leave the Port number alone.

Important Information for Rutgers Network or AOL Clients:    If your computer is on a Rutgers network or if you are an AOL customer, you can skip the following instructions. It applies only if you are working form outside Rutgers, and send mail through a Rutgers server. Our instructions currently recommend sending mail through you r ISP's server, so this section won't apply to most people. (AOL is a special case. We recommend that AOL customers configure their mail systems to use a Rutgers server for sending. However, AOL will actually trap the connection and reroute it to their own server. The encrypted setup procedure documented in the next section may not work in that case.)

6. Click on the "Account Information" tab.

7. Look at the "Outgoing Mail Server" near the bottom. Look at the server name shown there.

8. If it is a Rutgers server (the name ends in .rutgers.edu), click "Options" right below it.

9.  Review the screen below.

10. Make sure your username and password are filled in, and the authentication type is "Password".

11. Check the box labelled "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)"

12. Click "OK" to return to the "Accounts" box.

13. Click "OK"  from the Accounts box to confirm your settings.

14. Compose an e-mail message addressed to yourself, and send the message.  Check your Inbox for the new message.

15. If you did not receive the test message in your Inbox, please check your email address for errors and repeat Step 6.

16. If you received the test message in your Inbox, you are ready to proceed to the final steps.  Choose one of the following URL's:

Andromeda Users - http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/checkssl

Pegasus Users - http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/checkssl

• Open your web browser if not already open, enter the URL in the web address field.

• This URL will open the Secure Services Verification page to verify that you have successfully configured Macintosh OS 10.2.X   for a secure connection (SSL).

17.  Enter your username and click the Submit Query button. 

18. If you have properly configured Macintosh Mail for a secure connection you will receive an immediate display with the following information:

           "Our records show that your computer (x.x.x.x) has used secure services recently."

19. If your return window displays the following message:

           "Our Records show that your computer (x.x.x.x) has not used secure services recently.
            You don't appear to have setup secure services properly, or you haven't checked your (server name)
            mail recently.

It's a sure indication that there is an error in one of the configuration setting. 

Please repeat Steps 1 through 13.