Setup Mail.app for MacOS 10.6

Setup Mail.app for Maastrichtuniversity use.
(for MacOS 10.6, Snow Leopard)

If you want to use Mail.app, which is part of MacOS X, as your mail client for your 'maastrichtuniversity.nl' or 'unimaas.nl' mail account, follow the steps below.

If you also want to use iCal to handle your Calendar, select the according checkbox. First finish the set up of Mail.
Note that 'Exchange 2007' is the account type.

First, open Mail.app and choose 'Preferences' from the Mail menu.

Click on the 'Accounts' tab and type your account information.

With this setup, you can read your mail messages, inside and outside an UM building, sending email is possible (connected to Maasnet) inside an UM building. If you want to be able to send email when outside the UM, for example at home, you have to downlaod and install the UM VPN client for MacOS X. After installing, you must first start the VPN client before sending an email with Mail.

'Translate' your own Account Information according to the example above.

Above show the mailbox behaviors.

This (above) is how the Advanced tab should look like.

This (above) is how the Outgoing Mail Server setting should look like for UM(exchange).

Your MU mailaccount is ready to be used by Mail from 10.6. Yip !

sept-2009