About Apple Mail for Macintosh
Restrictions Apple Mail is installed by default with recent Macintosh Operating Systems.
Product
Information
Apple Mail (vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.) is an email client provided with Macintosh OS X Operating Systems.
Requirements
Operating System: Macintosh Operating System versions 10.x include Apple Mail. Only MacOS versions 10.3.9 or higher are supported by CIS.
Support
Help Desk Support: Limited.
Tasks Supported: Connecting to the Brown Exchange server, sending and receiving email.
Tasks Not Supported: Maintaining an Address Book, Using a Calendar (Mail does not connect to your Exchange calendar).
Known incompatibilities with Brown Environment: Mail does not use the full features of Brown's Exchange server (calendar and contacts).
Additional Support Resources: See CIS documentation
See Apple's web site for the Mail client
Use a search engine such as Google.
Installation The software is included with MacOS X. To make sure you have the latest version of Apple Mail for your operating system:
  1. Run Software Update from the Apple menu.
  2. If Mail is shown in the list of available updates, select it and choose Install.
Notes

If the Mail application is missing, it may be reinstalled from your Mac OS X installation or system restore CD/DVD.


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Last Reviewed: Wednesday, 06-Sep-2006 14:48:55 EDT by Software_Services