Configuring Your Client: Mail.app
This page contains instruction on how to setup the Mail.app email client to check your chemistry department email from within the Chemistry Building.
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Instructions
1. Start Mail.app. In the menu, click File, then Add Account…
2. New Account
- Change Account Type: to IMAP
- Under Account Description: enter IMAP Account
- Under Full Name enter Your Full Name or whatever you would like to be called.
- Under Email Address: enter Your Chemistry Email Address.
3. Enter mail.chem.wisc.edu as the incoming mail server.
- Under User Name: enter your Chemistry Email Username.
- Under Password: enter your Chemistry Email Password.
4. Enter smtp.chem.wisc.edu as the outgoing mail server if it is not already there.
- Click Continue
5. Click Done.
6. Click Mail, then Preferences...
7. Under the Accounts tab, select your account, and click the Server Settings button below Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
8. Make sure Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is checked and change the server port to 587. Also be sure to set the authentication type to password and supply your chemistry email username and password.
- Click OK and close the Accounts window. Your account is now configured to send and receive mail.
