Mail Setup Instructions: Outlook IMAP-SSL

Outlook with SSL-IMAP

IMAP is a mail download protocol which allows you to keep folders on the server and access these folders from multiple computers. This is great for users who don't use just one computer to check their email. With IMAP, users download a local copy of their mailbox and folders from the server. If you create folders on your computer, you must sync up with the server. However, you're not required to create folders. You can work with just one mailbox (your INBOX) if you like.

From the Tools menu, choose Accounts...

Click Add->Mail....

Type in your name in the Display Name box. (e.g. Arthur Dent)
 
Click Next>

In E-mail address textbox, type in your-email@priamte.net
(e.g. adent@primate.net)

Click Next>

In the "Email Server Names" window, fill in the following:

    My incoming mail server is:      IMAP
    Incoming mail server:    disorder.primate.net
    Outoing mail server: Using AOL, Earthlink, Pacbell, AtHome, or other ISP's:
                             your-isp-mail-server (e.g., mail.pacbell.com)

Click Next>

In the "Internet Mail Logon" window, fill in the following:

    Account Name:        your-username    (e.g., adent)
    Password:            your-password   
    Remember Password:   Check if you're on a computer not used by 
                         anyone else and you don't want to type  your password
			 everytime. 

Click Next>

Click Finish

Now click on the account you just created. (e.g. disorder.primate.net)

Click on Advanced tab, check This server requires a
secure connection (SSL)

Click on IMAP tab.  Under Root Folder Patch, type in mail/

Click OK

Making sure disorder.primate.net is selected, click Set as
Default.

Click Close

Check mail, enter your password when prompted.  

In order to see all your mailboxes/folders, you must "subscribe" to
them.  Right click on disorder.primate.net and select IMAP
Folders.  Click on Query.  Select all the folders you want to
"subscribe" to and click Subscribe.


You can go ahead and delete the old server setting if everything
works and you see all your mailboxes and INBOX.  If you're converting
from POP/IMAP, read the next section first before you remove the old
server setting. 

In Outlook Express, the Folders list (left pane) contains all the mail
servers you've configured.  The "server" labeled "Local Folders"
can be thought of as your local hard drive.  It contains all the mail
you downloaded via POP.  The section labeled 'disorder.primate.net' is
your IMAP server drive.  Therefore, it is important that you know where
you are going to create any new mail folder.  If the new mail folder is
under "Local Mail", then it's a local folder.  This means that if you
access your mail from another computer via IMAP, you will not see this folder.

If you're migrating from POP to IMAP AND you DID NOT leave your mail
on the server, you may want to transfer existing Local Mailboxes to
the IMAP server.  This will allow you to see the contents of these
mailboxes when accessing mail from other machines.  If you will always
check mail from one machine, you do not have to do this.


Transfering Local Mailboxes

Create a new mailbox on the IMAP server. Right clicking on
disorder.primate.net and choose New Folder

Enter the name of the new mailbox, for example OldMail. Note that
the name of the mailbox you are creating may be the same name
of the mailbox on the local hard drive.  Note that you do not have to
create the INBOX folder since that is a default folder.

Open the local mailbox (the one under "Local Folders")
and mark all of the messages by using the Select All
feature from the Edit menu.
 

Drag and drop the messages into the new folder you've created.
All messages are moved to the mailbox on the IMAP server.

The transfer may take some time depending on the number and size of messages being
  transferred.

Verify that the procedure has completed successfully by opening the newly created
  mailbox under disorder.primate.net

Continue for all mailboxes you wish to transfer.