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Configuring Entourage on a Mac

In order to complete the following setup, it is required that you use the UB VPN client. Download it for the Mac from their web site.

Entourage setup screen 1
  1. Open Entourage
  2. If you are not presented with a window asking to set up a new account then click on Tools, then Accounts. This will open the window where you will set up your email account. Then click the Mail button.
  3. The screen pictured to the left appears.
  4. Type in your e-mail address (username@buffalo.edu), user ID (this is your username), type in AD for the domain, and last enter your password.  Be sure the box is checked next to “My account is on an Exchange server.
  5. Click the right arrow in the lower right hand corner to move on to the next step.
  6. Once you click the right arrow you will receive an error message.  This is normal and can be disregarded.
  7. Click the right arrow in the lower right hand corner to move on to the next step.
Entourage setup scrren 2
  1. The screen should now look resemble the image on the left.
  2. Fill in all the boxes with your information.  Enter in the Domain, Exchange Server, and LDAP Server fields as shown to the left.  Also be sure to check the box to the left of “Use SSL for these severs”
  3. Click the right arrow to move on to the next step.
Entourage setup screen 3
  1. Click Verify My Settings.  This will make sure everything you entered is correct.  If it says Successful then click the right arrow one last time and the set up is complete.  It will take a few minutes to download your email.
 

The final step to the configuration is to activate Junk E-mail filtering.

  1. Click on the Tools menu and select Junk e-mail protection.
  2. Move the radio button from LOW to HIGH
  3. Uncheck the option to Automatically delete all junk e-mail.
 

Setting up the Junk E-mail filters in Entourage

There are two rules that must be added to Entourage in order to process the email that is being delivered to your desktop. As the email passes through the email servers, the header is altered and a "SPAM Quotient" is added to rate the email of its likelihood that it is indeed junk.

The two filters look at each email for these additions and then sort the email into the Junk E-mail folder.

Rule #1: Setup the first rule so that it resembles the following:

Apply this rule after the message arrives with Quarantined by iHate Spam Server Edition in the message header move it to the Junk E-mail folder

Rule #2: Setup the second rule so that it resembles the following:

Apply this rule after the message arrives with XXXXXXX in the message header move it to the Junk E-mail folder

Please note that the highlighted words in each rule indicate an option which must be typed into the rule as you create them. Additionally, the second rule must include 7 "X"s in order for the rule to work properly.

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