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This is my first experience with OS X Server, I setted Open Directory up and added some accounts through Workgroup Manager.

When I login in on one of the remote Apple computers with one of the network accounts it mounts the file sharepoints nicely. But it doesn't automatically configure the Mail.app.

I searched on the internet but Lion differs a lot from (Snow) Leopard at this point. Is there anyone who can help me find the right setting to configure this?

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Log into profile manager as an administrator using Safari and set up a profile for a user to change mail settings.

You will want to spend time making sure DNS and SSL are correctly installed - starting with making a self-signed certificate if you don't want to pay for a real SSL cert for your server.

Here's what to look for when you want to test setting IMAP settings for users.

Profile Manager - email settings

As you might be able to see - pick a user, then edit their settings and finally choose email.

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  • Do you know how far back this works for machines on the client side? Is it only 10.8 and newer, or does it go farther back?
    – Kent
    Oct 30, 2013 at 2:15
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    @Kent OS X Lion was the first client that could accept profiles from profile manager.
    – bmike ♦
    Oct 30, 2013 at 2:33
  • Prior to 10.8 you used Open Directory to do this stuff so you need an older version of Server to handle older clients but the principles are the same.
    – Tony Williams
    Jan 16, 2014 at 23:00
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you need to use profile manager, your users can setup their entire mac enviroment with installing just one tiny profile

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    Can you please elaborate on that so that other users can get more details about the steps they have to take?
    – nohillside ♦
    Dec 19, 2011 at 20:28
  • @patrix I added an answer since "use profile manager" is a bit terse, even for me :)
    – bmike ♦
    Oct 26, 2012 at 12:41

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