Client-Specific Configuration for Mail Service

Client Access to your Mail service requires:

ÂÂ Enabling users to access your Mail service. See “Designating Authorized Mail Service Users” on page 62.

ÂÂ Configuring and managing the tools they use to access Mail service. Some of these topics are discussed below.

Configuring Mail Client Applications

Users must configure their mail client software to connect to Mail service. The following table details the information most mail clients need and the source of the information in Mac OS X Server.

Mail client software

Mac OS X Server

Example

User name

Full name of the user

Steve Macintosh

 

 

 

Account name or Account ID

Short name of user account

steve

 

 

 

Password

Password of user account

 

 

 

 

Host name

Mail server’s full DNS name or IP

mail.example.com

Mail server

address, as used when you log

192.168.50.1

in to the server in Server Admin

Mail host

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mail address

User’s short name, followed by

steve@example.com

 

the @ symbol, followed by one

steve@mail.example.com

 

of the following:

 

steve@[192.168.50.1]

 

ÂÂ

Server’s Internet domain (if

 

 

 

 

the mail server has an MX

 

 

 

record in DNS)

 

 

ÂÂ

Mail server’s full DNS name

 

 

ÂÂ

Server’s IP address in brackets

 

 

 

 

SMTP host

Same as host name

mail.example.com

SMTP server

 

 

192.168.50.1

 

 

 

POP host

Same as host name

mail.example.com

POP server

 

 

192.168.50.1

 

 

 

IMAP host

Same as host name

mail.example.com

IMAP server

 

 

192.168.50.1

 

 

 

SMTP user

Short name of user account

steve

 

 

 

SMTP password

Password of user account

 

 

 

 

 

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Apple 10.6 manual Client-Specific Configuration for Mail Service, Configuring Mail Client Applications