UNIVERSITY EMAIL - APPLE MACINTOSH How to... Access your University email on your Apple Macintosh Introduction The University of South Wales offers all enrolled students the use of a free personal e-mail account which up until now has only been available via Unilife, but can now be accessed using your mobile device. Your e-mail account includes a calendar, notes and an address book to organise and store your contacts, and provides more than 30Gb of storage space. email on your Apple Macintosh How to... Access your University UNI EMAIL - APPLE MAC Step 1/1 - Setting Up Your Apple Macintosh device To use your University email on your Apple Macintosh device, you first need to configure the device to connect to the University email servers. As the University student email is run by Google, configuring the University email system is similar to setting up a Gmail account. The example pictures in the following pages are Macintosh OS X (v10.7.3), but can be easily configured for use with other devices as long as they support the IMAP email protocol, see page 6 for server details. NOTE It is your responsibility to get your computer connected to a internet service provider. If you are experiencing difficulties, your service provider website or support service will be able to assist in getting your Macintosh connected. 1
On your OS X computer, locate and load up the Mail application. You will now be prompted to enter your full name, your University email address, and your current University password, select Continue to proceed. Even though we are now known as the University Of South Wales, please enter your Glamorgan email address i.e: 12345678@glam.ac.uk Upon selecting Continue, the mail application will search for mail servers associated with your University email address. 2
You will now be prompted to enter the incoming mail server details, please enter the following information. Account type: IMAP Description: UOSW Email (or something similar) Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com Username: Enter your University email address (i.e: 12345678@glam.ac.uk) Password: Enter your current University password. Even though we are now known as the University Of South Wales, please enter your Glamorgan email address i.e: 12345678@glam.ac.uk Select Continue to proceed. 3
You will now be prompted to enter the outgoing mail server details, please enter the following information. Description: UOSW Email (or something similar) Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com Use Authentication: Place Tick in box Username: Enter your University email address (i.e: 12345678@glam.ac.uk) Password: Enter your current University password. Even though we are now known as the University Of South Wales, please enter your Glamorgan email address i.e: 12345678@glam.ac.uk Select Continue to proceed. 4
An account summary will now be shown, please check all details to confirm they are correct. Select Create to proceed. Your University email is now configured on your Apple Macintosh, the mail application will now synchronise and retreive your email from the server. You can now send / receive University email on your Apple Macintosh device. 5
For users who have devices other than ios, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or Microsoft Windows, the University email IMAP settings are as follows. INCOMING Server address : imap.gmail.com Port : 993 Security type : (SSL) always OUTGOING Server address : smtp.gmail.com Port : 465 Security type : (SSL) always Other University email guides available. Android Blackberry Microsoft Windows Mobile Microsoft Windows 6