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Mac Mail setup

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 | help | No Comments

How to setup Mac Mail on OSX to connect to IMAP and SMTP authenticated sending.

In Mail go to the Mail menu and “preferences”.
Under Accounts -> Account Information, click on the “Server Settings” button underneath the outgoing server.
Set the server name to mail.gwork.org.
Set the Server port to 465.
Give it your username and password.
Tick the box next to “Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)”.
Click OK

Then…
Click the Advanced tab.
Next to Port set 993 for IMAP and tick “Use SSL”.
Close preferences and quit Mail.

Then (this is important)…

Download the SSL gwork-ca cert from the gwork site and save
it to the desktop.
Double click the file to import it.
This should open “Keychain access”.
(If it doesn’t you can get to that app from the applications/utilities
folder. Go to File -> Import… Select the Gwork-CA.crt file on the
desktop and then do as above.)

(IMPORTANT) select the keychain X509Anchors from the drop down list
above the OK button.
Click OK and enter your OSX user account password if asked.

Open Mail again and go to the window menu and bring up the “Mail
Connection Doctor”. It should tell you if there’s a problem connecting
and why. Also you may want to test it by sending yourself an email.

You should now be able to send and receive mail.

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