Mozilla Mail Setup

How to set up an Email account with Mozilla Mail (first time setup)

Configure Mozilla using the Account Wizard:

1. Select Email account
2. Enter your full name and email address
   Email address will be of the form: user@pha.jhu.edu.
3. Select IMAP type account.
   Using incoming server: adcam.pha.jhu.edu and outgoing server: adcam.pha.jhu.edu.
4. Enter your ACS username.
5. Enter the account name.
   This should usually be of the form: user@pha.jhu.edu.
6. Verify information and click Finish.
7. Unfortunately, we are not done. So, cancel the login dialog box.
8. Under the "Edit" menu select "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings".
9. Click on "Server Settings" in the box at the left side of the window.
10. Select the "Use secure connection (SSL)" option under Server Settings
11. Click on "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" in the box at the left side of the window.
12. Ensure that under "Server Name:" you see "adcam.pha.jhu.edu"—if not, please enter it now.
13. Check the "Use name and password" box
14. Enter your ACS user name in the box
15. Select the "TLS, if available" option
16. Click the OK button
17. From the main Mozilla window, click the "Get Msgs" icon.
18. Enter your password when prompted (you will only have to do this once per session)
    This is the password required for getting messages.
19. Click the "OK" button
20. Send a test message to yourself.
21. Enter your password when prompted (you will only have to do this once per session).
    This is the password required for sending messages.

Why are two passwords necessary?

Mail servers (aka SMTP servers) are configured to disallow relaying mail from unknown or non-local systems. This is necessary to prevent people from using the server as a base to launch SPAM campaigns. When you took a laptop off-site or used your home computer you were not able to use adcam.pha.jhu.edu (aka acs.pha.jhu.edu) as your Outgoing mail server (SMTP host). We now have the ability to login, using our username and password sent over a secure, encrypted channel, to the SMTP host from anywhere. This establishes a level of trust between the systems and enables mail to be relayed to other sites.