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CHAPTER 11 MAIL, ADDRESS BOOK, AND iCAL
Once you’ve entered all your information and hit the Continue button, Mail will try to connect
to the server and determine the best means of connecting to it. If this fails, then you will get
a pop-up message warning you that Mail was unable to connect to the mail server. This usually
means something was entered incorrectly or perhaps the mail server is down or not accepting
connections. If you are sure everything is correct, you can click Continue again to move on.
At this point, depending on what happened when Mail contacted your incoming server, you
may or may not be prompted to select your security settings. If you are, you should enter them
here. We strongly encourage you to select SSL encryption.
NOTE SSL encryption encrypts the data being passed between your computer and the server
at the other end. Some services for whatever reason don’t accept SSL encryption (or any other
encryption) for e-mail. If this is the case, we strongly urge you to find another e-mail provider
and not use the account lacking encryption. Checking your e-mail over an unencrypted connection
and sending your username and e-mail address across the Internet in easy-to-read
plain text for all, with a little know-how, to see is very, very bad. If you don’t want to fork over
money for a .Mac account or some other e-mail provider service that offers good, secure
e-mail, you can always get a free, permanent, secure Gmail account at www.gmail.com (which
may redirect you to Google—it’s OK, Gmail is synonymous with Google Mail), so you have no
excuses.
The next step is selecting your outgoing mail server for this account (Figure 11-4). Here you
can either choose an existing outgoing mail server (one from an existing account) to use when
sending mail from this account or enter the details of a new one. Usually you will want to enter
the outgoing account information associated with the account you are setting up.
Figure 11-4. Configuring your outgoing mail server