With this IMAP profile, you can automatically configure the email accounts (Mail app) of your macOS users. It ensures that users do not have to manually enter server data, ports, or passwords. Instead, these values are set centrally here.
- First, proceed as described here.
- Select IMAP as the profile you want to add. The following dialog box will open.
Make the following settings here:
- Profile name: Assign a name to your profile.
- Account name: If this is a profile for all users, keep the default setting Automatic. The name will then be read automatically. Alternatively, you can also use variables. Instead, enter the name for the account if you want to create the profile for a specific user.
- Account description: Enter the display name of the account here.
- Email address: If this is a profile for all users, keep the default setting Automatic. If you want to create the profile for a specific user, enter the email address for the account instead.
Server for incoming emails
- Use SSL: Keep this checkbox selected for a secure connection.
- Authentication: Select the authentication method you use for your mail server (None, Password, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, HTTP-MD5) or that your mail server offers for authentication.
- Host and port: Enter the IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the mail server for incoming mail here (example in the image).
- Path prefix: Enter the additional folder path to the location where the actual mail folders begin in the IMAP directory tree here.
- Username: If you do not enter anything in this field, the user must enter their username when they want to access their emails.
- Password: If you do not enter anything in this field, the user must enter their password when they want to access their emails.
Outgoing mail server
- Use SSL: Keep this checkbox selected for a secure connection.
- Authentication: Select the authentication method you use for your mail server (None, Password, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, HTTP-MD5)
- Host and port: Enter the IP address or fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the mail server for outgoing mail here.
- Path prefix: Enter the additional folder path to the location where the actual mail folders begin in the IMAP directory tree here.
- Username: If you do not enter anything in this field, the user must enter their username when they want to access their emails.
- Password: If you do not enter anything in this field, the user must enter their password when they want to access their emails.
Additional settings
- Send large attachments with Mail Drop: Select this checkbox if you want Mail Drop to appear in the Mail app when sending large files.
- Exclude this account from Recent Addresses syncing: Select this checkbox if you do not want recently used addresses to be synced across devices.
- Use only in Mail: Select this checkbox if you want outgoing emails to be sent only via the Mail app.
- Prevent move: Select this checkbox if you want to prevent emails from being moved from one mail account to another.