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Setting-Up Apple Mail for Your Graduate Center Email
If you have not entered any mail or .Mac settings in your System Preferences, a Mail Setup window will appear the first time you start Mail. To configure Mail to read your Graduate Center account on the the Exchange server, follow these steps:
Configuring Your First Account in Apple Mail
1. Click Continue in the first screen of the New Account window. In the next screen under "General Information", select Exchange Account from the pop-up menu.
2. Next to "Account Description:", type a name for this account to appear in the list of accounts in the Mail program.
3. Next to "Full Name:", type your name as you would like it to appear in your outgoing email messages.
4. In the "Email Address:" field, type your full GC email address.
Click Continue.
5. Next to "Incoming Mail Server:", type mail.gc.cuny.edu
6. Next to "User Name", type your GC username. This is the name before "@gc.cuny.edu" in your email address.
7. Next to "Password:", type your GC mail password.
8. Next to "Outlook Web Access Server:", type wa.gc.cuny.edu
Warning: If your Keychain is unlocked, Mail will automatically save your password without prompting you.
9. Click Continue. A login error may appear, but if it does, just click Continue again.
10. In the "Outgoing Mail Server:" field, type: mail.gc.cuny.edu
11. Click the checkbox next to "Use Authentication", and then enter your GC username and password in the appropriate fields. Click Continue.
12. A window may open asking you to "Authenticate the Kerberos Realm". If so, click "Cancel".
13. Click Continue. If you have used another mail application on your computer (e.g., Entourage or Eudora), click Import Mailboxes and Mail will lead you through its mail import utility. If you don't have any mail to import, click Done. Click Yes or No depending on whether you want to read about Mail's features. Then enter the mail program.
Configuring Additional Accounts in Apple Mail
1. In Mail, from the Mail menu, select Preferences... . In the Mail preferences window toolbar, click Accounts, and then click + (the plus sign). In the sheet or pane that appears, select Exchange from the menu next to "Account Type:".
2. Next to "Account Description:", type a name for this account to appear in the list of accounts in the Mail program.
3. Next to "Full Name:", type your name as you would like it to appear in your outgoing email messages.
4. In the "Email Address:" field, type your full GC email address.
Click Continue.
5. Next to "Incoming Mail Server:", type mail.gc.cuny.edu
6. Next to "User Name", type your GC username. This is the name before "@gc.cuny.edu" in your email address.
7. Next to "Password:", type your GC mail password.
8. Next to "Outlook Web Access Server:", type wa.gc.cuny.edu
Warning: If your Keychain is unlocked, Mail will automatically save your password without prompting you.
9. Click Continue. A login error may appear, but if it does, just click Continue again.
10. In the "Outgoing Mail Server:" field, type: mail.gc.cuny.edu
11. Click the checkbox next to "Use Authentication", and then enter your GC username and password in the appropriate fields. Click Continue.
12. A window may open asking you to "Authenticate the Kerberos Realm". If so, click "Cancel".
12.Click Continue and your account set up should be complete.
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