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• Purdue People Lookup in Mac Mail

Email

• Purdue People Lookup in Mac Mail

  One can easily add lookup functionality to their email client that makes it trivial to find people’s email addresses given their names. By simply typing a name in the To: or CC: fields, Mac Mail will query an IT@P server for email addresses that belong to the typed name.

  Here’s how to set it up:

  • Open Mac Mail
  • From the top Menu goto Preferences:
    
  • Next, open the “Composing” tab on the top of the dialog windows and choose the “Configure LDAP” button:
    
  • Once the “Configure LDAP” window appears, click the +button in the lower left-hand corner. This window should appear:
    
  • You need to fill the fields as shown in the below image:
    
  • If you want to use the lookup functionaliy from off-campus, you should enter your Purdue Career Account username and password and set the “Auth Type” to SSL.
  • Click the “Save” button.
  • If you want to query the Mathematics Department server as well as Purdue’s, click the + sign in the lower, left-hand corner and fill out the fields with the below values:
    
  • Finally, click the “Done” button.
  • Be sure to check the “Automatically complete addresses” button on the “Composin” tab of Mail’s Preferences.

  Start a “New” email message, and type the name of a Purdue person, the name should automatically be translated into an email address.