Email setup in iMac Apple Mail
Instructions
Let’s begin!
- Open Mail.
- Enter your email account information, see Figure 1:
Figure 1.- Full Name: Your name as you would like it to appear.
- Email Address: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you’re ready.
- Mail will attempt to contact the mail server. The default search uses “autodiscover.example.com” — unless you have this subdomain already created and an SSL Certificate installed, this will fail. Click the Connect button to complete a manual set up. See Figure 2.
Figure 2. - In the next screen, enter your information. See Figure 3 below:
Figure 3.- Account Type: From the menu, we recommend IMAP. To learn more, please see: Using Email: How IMAP works.
- Description: Enter a short description.
- Incoming Mail Server: Your access domain.
- User Name: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you’re ready.
- Next, we’ll configure the Outgoing Mail Server, see Figure 4.
Figure 4. Be sure to check the box for “Use Authentication.”- Description: Enter a short description.
- Outgoing Mail Server: Your access domain.
- User Name: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you’re ready.
- You will now have an Account Summary similar to Figure 5:
Figure 5.Click the Create button when you’re ready. - That’s it! You just configured your (mt) email address on Apple Mail. You are now brought to your inbox, see Figure 6.
Figure 6.
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