Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book
Apple Mail, iCal, and Address Book come with the Macintosh operating system. If you're using a Mac, they should already on your system. These programs can work together on your Mac to provide an integrated email and calendar experience similar to that in Webmail. The documents linked below are designed to help you use the Stanford Email and Calendar service with these Macintosh applications.
Apple Mail
Getting Started
Apple Mail can be configured to access your Stanford Email using either the IMAP or POP protocol. Users who would like to access the same set of messages and mailboxes from both Apple Mail and Webmail should select the IMAP protocol.
See the Email Configuration page for instructions on setting up Apple Mail.
iCal
Getting Started
iCal can be configured to access your Stanford Calendar using the CalDAV protocol. There are two ways to configure iCal:
- Follow our manual configuration instructions.
- Install the iSync Connector. This software from Zimbra will automatically complete the iCal configuration described above and can also sync your Mac's Address Book to Stanford Email and Calendar's Address Book.
Doing More
Things to be aware of with using iCal with Stanford Calendar:
- In order to avoid lengthy sync times, the Stanford Calendar server is set to allow CalDAV connections to sync appointments one month in the past and one year in the future. For access to appointments outside of this range you can use the web client.
- iCal will automatically display and sync all calendars that appear in the left hand column of the Stanford Calendar web client. If you find iCal is taking too long to sync a large number of calendars, you can remove some shared calendars from your list in the web client and they will no longer appear in iCal.
- Although you can access shared calendars (i.e., belonging to other users or resources) using iCal it is not recommended that you manage (add and and delete appointments) on a shared calendar. A new version of iCal that will be included with OS X 10.6 will enable iCal users to effectively manage shared calendars.
- You cannot manage sharing permissions from iCal. If you use iCal, you will need to use the web client to adjust permissions for your calendars.
- Cancelled instances of a recurring series of meetings will remain displayed in iCal but will have a strikethrough font to indicate they have been cancelled. This behavior will change in the next release from Zimbra, due to be installed late summer, 2009.
Address Book
Getting Started
The Apple Address Book application can sync to the Stanford Email and Calendar Address Book using the iSync Connector software. A connection to the Stanford Directory can also be set up within Address Book, enabling you to find other Stanford users to send a message to or invite to a meeting.
- iSync Connector installation and configuration instructions
- Configuring OS X Mail for Directory Access (Includes instructions for accessing the Stanford Directory from the Mac Address Book and for creating address book entries from records found in the directory.)
