How to Setup Email Account in MacMail on MacOS

1. Adding a new account:

   1. Select Preferences from the Mail menu.
   2. Select Preferences.
      
      
      
   3. Click on the Accounts icon in the Mail Preferences window.
      
   4. On the Accounts window, click the + (plus) sign to create a new account.
      
      If this is the first address you're adding to Mac Mail, the mail app opens and asks you to select an account provider.
      
      
   5. Select the Other Mail Account… option and click the Continue button.
      
      

2. Enter your Full Name or your name as you would like it to appear on your sent email.

Enter your full Email Address.
Enter your email account's password.
Click the Next button
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A message should appear saying, "Account must be manually configured."

Click Next.


Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings

 

Incoming Mail Server

When entering the information for your Incoming Mail Server, you will need to decide if you would like to use POP3 or IMAP. POP3 will download and remove all of our server's emails, whereas IMAP will synchronize the emails between your email client(s) and our server. IMAP is recommended if you will be using this email account with multiple devices.

 

1. Choose your account type, either IMAP or POP.

2. Enter mail.domain.com as the Incoming mail server, replacing domain.com with your own domain name.

3. Enter your full email address as the User Name.

4. Enter the Password of your email account.

For Path Prefix, please enter INBOX.

If you are using IMAP, make sure you are using either port 143 with no SSL -OR- port 993 with SSL.
If you are using POP3, make sure you are using either port 110 with no SSL -OR- port 995 with SSL.

Authentication should be set to Password

SSL CERTIFICATE WARNING

If you choose to use SSL, you may receive a message warning you that the certificate is not trusted. If you receive this message, follow these steps:

Click Show Certificate.

Configure the Outgoing Server.

1. The Outgoing Mail Server is the same as your incoming mail server. Again, this will be something like mail.example.com
   
2. Enter your full email address as the User Name.
   
   Note: Outgoing username and password could say "optional" in the field. Please be sure to add your username and password to it.
   
3. Enter the Password of your email account.
   
4. You may receive a message saying Additional account information required.
   For the port number, you can use port 25 or 8025 with no SSL or port 587 with SSL.
   
5. Make sure the Authentication is set to Password.
   
6. Click the Create button

That's it! Your email account should be added to your Apple Mail client.