Purdue Mathematics IT

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.