Campus Shared Services Knowledge Base

This guide will show you how to add bMail to Apple Mail via IMAP. The procedure is applicable for Mac Mail 3.0 through 6.1+ on OS X 10.5 through 10.8.

Before you start:

If you have not already created a Google Key, do so now by following this article. You will need the key to complete the steps in this article.

• Enable IMAP

Before you can setup Apple Mail, you need to enable IMAP in the bMail web client. For instructions please see this article.

Add your account in Apple Mail:

Step 1: In the Menu Bar, click “Mail”, then “Preferences” 

NOTE: If this you have not setup an account on Apple Mail before, and you see a “Welcome to Mail” window, skip to Step 3. 

Step 2: In Accounts, click the plus sign in the bottom-left corner

Step 3: Add Account -- Fill in the form as follows

Full Name: Your name

Email Address: your bMail address

Password: Your Google Key 

Next, click “Continue”

Step 4: At this point, you will likely see an error message saying “Logging into the Berkeley.edu IMAP server failed.” Do not worry about this; simply click “Continue”. 

Step 5: Incoming Mail Server – Fill in the form as follows:

Account Type: IMAP

Description: Give your account a name, for example “Berkeley”

Incoming Mail Server: change to imap.gmail.com

User Name: your full bMail address

Password: Your Google Key

Next, click “Continue”

Step 6: Change the Outgoing Mail Server to smtp.gmail.com and check “Use only this server”. Then, click “Continue”. 

Step 7: Make sure “Take account online” is checked, and click “Create”. 

That’s it! Now your account should be ready to use in Apple Mail.