WARNING: The Office of Information Technology supports only the configuration of Apple's Mail for the specific purpose of connecting to our servers. For problems or questions concerning its use, please consult the application's Help menu or Apple's web site.

This information will assist you in configuring Mail for use with the My GaTech mail system.

Basic Configuration

1. Start Mail
2. If you are running Mail for the first time, you will be asked to add settings for an account automatically and can skip to step 5
3. Select Preferences… from the Mail menu or hit ,
4. Go to the Accounts section and click the + to add settings for a new account
   
   
    
5. Enter your name, email address (gtaccount@mail.gatech.edu) and GT Account password, then click Continue
   
   
    
6. Choose "IMAP" as the Account Type, enter the Account Description of your choice. Enter mail.gatech.edu as the Incoming Mail Server, then enter your GT Account and GT Account password
   
   
    

   Click Continue

7. Ensure that the box for Use Secure Socket Layers is checked and that Password is chosen as the Authentication type.
   
   

   Click Continue.

8. Enter "mail.gatech.edu" as the Outgoing Mail Server, check the Use Authentication box, then enter your GT Account username and password again
   
   

   Click Continue.

9. Ensure that the box for Use Secure Socket Layers is checked and that Password is chosen as the Authentication type.
   
   

   Click Continue.

10. If everything was correct, you should see a summary
    
    

    Click Continue.

11. Click Done

Optional Configuration

Once a My GaTech account has been added in Mail, you may want to make some further changes to the configuration

1. Select Preferences… from the Mail menu or hit ,
2. Select the account you just created and go to the Advanced tab
3. Enter "INBOX" as the IMAP Path Prefix. If you are using the new Zimbra-based mail system, leave it blank.
   
   
    
4. Close the Preferences window and save the changes.
    
5. If you have an existing folder for sent messages on the My GaTech IMAP server, highlight the folder. (If you do not have a folder for sent messages, you can create one by clicking the + in the lower-left corner. Highlight the new folder when you are done.)
    
6. From the Mailbox menu, choose Use This Mailbox For then choose Sent.
   
   
7. If you wish, you may repeat steps 5 and 6 for "Drafts", "Trash", and "Junk" folders.