Email Setup on Apple Mail Posted by on 03 April 2014 11:51 AM
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Setting up your email on Apple Mail is super easy and will not take you more than 5 minutes. So let's do it:
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Click on Mail menu
- Click on Preferences
- Click on the Accounts tab
- Click on the "+" to your bottom left on this window
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Select Add Other Mail Account... and click on Continue
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Enter your Full Name, Email Address and Password
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Click on Create
- If you get the warning message 'Account must be manually configured', click on Next
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Select the Account Type - IMAP or POP (We recommend you to go for "IMAP". It keeps your emails in sync with the server)
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Set the Incoming Mail Server as imap.yourdomain.com (If you want to use POP account type, set the POP server as pop.yourdomain.com)
Note:
If you have a Linux Hosting package, Incoming mail server will be mail.yourdomain.com
If you have a Windows Hosting package, Incoming mail server will be yourdomain.com
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Enter your complete email address in Username
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Enter your Email Password
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Click Next
- If you get the 'Verify Certificate' Warning, click on Connect
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Set the Outgoing Mail Server as smtp.yourdomain.com
Note:
If you have a Linux Hosting package, Outgoing mail server will be mail.yourdomain.com
If you have a Windows Hosting package, Outgoing mail server will be yourdomain.com
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If you get the 'Verify Certificate' Warning, click on Connect
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Go to Advanced Tab.
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Set the Port to 143 (If you're using POP, set it to 110)
- Set the Authentication to Password
- Go to Account Information tab
- Click on the dropdown of Outgoing Mail Server
- Click on Edit SMTP Server List...
- Go to Advanced tab and use custom port - 587
- Untick the checkbox Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Set the Authentication to Password
- Click on OK
- Close the dialog box. You'll get a pop-up to Save the changes. Click on Save
That's it! You're all good to use your email accounts on your Apple Mail
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