This tutorial is based on the default Mac Mail application (also known as Mail.app), version 3.6 (OS X 10.5.8, Leopard).
From the File menu, select Add Account...
Fill in your full name as you'd like it to be displayed on outgoing emails, your email address, and your email password. This password should have been assigned to you by May First or by your organization's account manager when your email account was created; it's the same one you use to access May First webmail. Click Continue.
Select either POP or IMAP from the Account Type dropdown menu. (For help understanding and choosing between the two, see this guide from our wiki.) Enter a Description that will help you remember what account this is. Enter mail.mayfirst.org
in the Mail Server field. Enter your account's Username and Password; again, these are the same username and password that you enter when logging into May First webmail. Click Continue.
Mail.app does not have an option to select STARTTLS. If you try to send your email and encounter problems with your outgoing server configuration, you may need to change your port settings for both Incoming and Outgoing servers.
Incoming settings:
For Outgoing server, select Edit SMTP Server List from the Outgoing Mail server select on Account Information tab: