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Client-Specic Conguration for Mail Service
Client Access to your Mail service requires:
Enabling users to access your Mail service. See “ Â Designating Authorized Mail Service
Users” on page 62.
Conguring and managing the tools they use to access Mail service. Some of these Â
topics are discussed below.
Conguring Mail Client Applications
Users must congure 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
Mail host
Mail server’s full DNS name or IP
address, as used when you log
in to the server in Server Admin
mail.example.com
192.168.50.1
Mail address User’s short name, followed by
the @ symbol, followed by one
of the following:
 Server’s Internet domain (if
the mail server has an MX
record in DNS)
 Mail server’s full DNS name
 Server’s IP address in brackets
steve@example.com
steve@mail.example.com
steve@[192.168.50.1]
SMTP host
SMTP server
Same as host name mail.example.com
192.168.50.1
POP host
POP server
Same as host name mail.example.com
192.168.50.1
IMAP host
IMAP server
Same as host name mail.example.com
192.168.50.1
SMTP user Short name of user account steve
SMTP password Password of user account
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