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How to Enable SMTP Authentication
for Macintosh OS X Mail

This document explains how to enable SMTP Authentication for the Macintosh OS X MAIL email client.

Enabling SMTP authentication

  1. Open MAIL.
  2. From the MAIL menu, select Preferences. Select the Accounts icon and click on your email account under the Description heading.  Click on the Edit button on the right.  The Account Information appears. 
  3. In the Outgoing Mail Server section, click on the double arrows and select Add Server.. from the menu. The SMTP Server Options box appears.
  4. In the Outgoing Mail Server box, enter send.olympus.net 
  5. In the Authentication box,  click on the double arrows and select MD5 Challenge-Response.
  6. In the User Name box, enter your email address.  In the Password box, enter your password for this email address.
  7. Click OK to return to the Account information page. In Outgoing Mail Server section, click on the double arrows and select send.olympus.net . Note that it will have your email address listed.
  8. The Outgoing Mail Server entry should now show send.olympus.net followed by your email address.
  9. Click OK to close and then close the Accounts box by clicking the red button.  SMTP authentication has been enabled.
For the complete Mac OS X Mail setup, please refer to Setting Up Mac OS X Mail Using POP or IMAP.

 

Updated 2004-11-23

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