How to check email with the Mac Mail client

**Note** You must have an account on receptor for these instructions to work. If you are still using an account on the genetics server, please contact support@genetics.med.harvard.edu to have your account moved to receptor. This will not change your email address, only the computer to which you are connecting to get your mail.

Open the Mail program. It will be under Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Mail.

From the Mail drop down menu at the top of the screen select ‘Preferences’. If you are running OS X 10.2, you will see a window that looks like this:

Click on the button "Add Account".

If you are running OS X 10.3, the account list is to the left of the image below. Click the plus sign in the lower left hand corner to add an account.

Fill in the following information:

You can choose to check your email via the POP or IMAP service. IMAP will leave your messages on the server, so you may check your mail from multiple places. POP will download messages to your local machine.

Select 'Add Server' from the 'Outgoing Mail Server' drop down menu.

A window called ‘SMTP server options’ will appear. Fill in the following values. Make sure you type your password correctly. The new mail server, receptor, requires user authentication to send mail. Click ‘OK’.

You should now be back at the Accounts window. Click on the tab called 'Special Mailboxes'. If you have an IMAP account, the window should look like this:

When you have finished filling in the values, click ‘OK’.

If you have set up a POP account, the ‘Special Mailboxes’ window should look like this:

When you have finished filling in the values, click ‘OK’.

Again, you should be back at the Accounts Window. Click on the tab 'Advanced'.

If you have set up an IMAP account, the ‘Advanced’ tab should look like this:

‘Include when automatically checking for mail’ is optional. You may choose any option you like for ‘Keep copies of my mail for offline viewing’. Fill in the rest of the values accordingly. Click ‘OK’.

If you have set up a POP account, the ‘Advanced’ tab should look like this:

‘Include when automatically checking for mail’ is optional. You can choose whatever option you would like with regards to removing the messages from the server. Click ‘OK’.