Enhanced security network access uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) as a protocol that helps ensure the privacy of documents transmitted over the Internet, including email messages. Once activated, SSL encrypts your incoming messages, ensuring that passwords and other private information can not be intercepted in transit.
Activating SSL in Mac OS X Mail version 2 is quick and easy, and CNS strongly recommends that you do so.
Have your UTORid and password handy and complete the following:
- Start Mail. From the Mail menu, select Preferences, then, click the Accounts item to bring up the accounts preferences panel, pictured below. If you have completed the new account creation process above you should have values similar to the ones listed below. As mentioned before, some of these values will need to be changed.
- Click on the Server Settings button. You should see the following window:
- Click "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" in the left pane under local folders and than press "Edit" button to bring up a page similar to the one pictured below.
For "Server name", enter smtp.utoronto.ca.
For "Port", enter 587.
Turn ON the option to "Use name and password"
For "User name", enter your UTORid.
Confirm that your Server port is set to 587 and the "TLS" radio button is selected.
Click OK to save the changes and close the window.