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Installation & Use Configuring Mail Clients This section will cover the process of enabling clients for mail service, and the information they'll need to configure their client application. Enabling Mail Clients Configuring Clients [Advanced] Enabling Clients The Mail admin program has an option to show Users & Groups List. This option will open the Users & Groups List from within the Web & File Admin application (which will be installed with the Mail Server application). Double-click a user and select Mail Settings from the pop up menu. You have the following choices: None. No mail service. Enable. This would cause the server to create a mailbox for the user, and accept mail for that user. You can determine whether or not the client can have a POP or IMAP account, or both. Foward Have mail forwarded to another Internet email account, or to another ASIP mail server. Before setting up mail services, you should know whether you want your clients to use POP or IMAP, or whether you want to enable both. See the Mail Service Primer for assistance in making the decision. Enable Mail Options Again, the important thing to remember with these options is that the client mail software package must also support them. For the "Notify" feature, you must also enable this protocol under Advanced Settings:Protocol tab. Configuring clients Users can select the mail client software of their choice. Some popular applications are Eudora and Claris Emailer; both support POP but not IMAP. Microsoft Outlook Express, Netscape, JavaSoft's IMAP client and Mulberry support IMAP. Note that clients do not need to be MacOS based; POP and IMAP are standards, so clients on other platforms, such as Windows, can also exchange mail, given they have the appropriate mail client software. Remember that if you've enabled them for IMAP only, they need an IMAP capable client; same goes for POP. Regardless of the client software they use, users will need the following information to configure their mail client software: Their email account: This is typically going to be their internet alias@host name.domain name, for example, teb@asip.apple.com Their email address: this may differ from the account. For example, when an MX only host record has been set up in DNS to allow mail to be addressed to the domain, such as teb@apple.com (the mail exchanger for 'apple.com' would be "asip.apple.com", the host name of the machine actually running mail services). Their password. The same password is used for web, file, ftp, and mail services, when these services all run on the same server. Keep in mind when setting up user's passwords and selecting other password options (such as "require user to change password at next login) that only the file sharing client can receive the messages that alert users to these types of requirements. SMTP server: This is probably the DNS host name of the ASIP mail server itself, but it does not need to be. It could be some other SMTP mail server; you might select one that has a connection to the Internet, if your ASIP mail server does not. The user does not necessarily need to have an account on the SMTP server in order to use it to send outgoing mail. IMAP Server: If using IMAP, they'll need the name of their IMAP server, i.e., the host name of the ASIP mail server where their account is.