
Chapter 1 Mail Service Setup 37
Supporting Mail Users
This section discusses mail settings in your server’s user accounts, user mail storage
quotas, and mail service settings in email client software.
Configuring Mail Settings for User Accounts
To make mail service available to users, you must configure mail settings in your user
accounts. For each user, you need to:
• Enable mail usage.
• Enter the DNS name or IP address of your mail server.
• Select the protocols for retrieving incoming mail (POP, IMAP, or both).
• Set a quota on disk space available for storing a user’s mail.
• Configure any desired alternate mail storage location.
You configure these settings with the Workgroup Manager application. For detailed
instructions, see the Mac OS X Server User Management for Version 10.4 or Later.
Configuring Email Client Software
Users must configure their email client software to connect to your mail service. The
following table details the information most email clients need and the source of the
information in Mac OS X Server.
Email client software Mac OS X Server Example
User name Full name of the user Steve Macintosh
Account name
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
Email 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
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
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