Mac OS X Mail.app Praxis IMAP SSL

How to turn on SSL in Mac OSX Mail.app

We need to turn on SSL for both IMAP (incoming) and SMTP (outgoing) mail servers

Open Mail Preferences

Open Mail Preferences

Select Accounts

Select Accounts

Select email account

Select email account

Turn on SSL

Turn on SSL
  1. Select account, then click on the advanced tab
  2. Turn on "Use SSL" ( by default this will chnage the port number to 993 if your accout is IMAP)
  3. authentication should also be set to password if it isn't already.

 

Select Account Information

Select Account Information

Select/edit your SMTP server list

Select/edit your SMTP server list

You may only have one server in your list- that's OK, simply select "Edit SMTP Server list..."

Select the the praxis smtp server setting

Select the the praxis smtp server setting

Select Advanced

Select Advanced

Check Outgoing Settings

Check Outgoing Settings

Make sure your settings are as above

  1. Select "use default ports (25,465,587)"
  2. Turn on "Use Secure Sockets Layer" (Your "Authentication" method should also be set Password,)
  3. You username should be your full email address

Click OK

Save settings

Save settings

When asked to Save Changes, click Save.

You're DONE!

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