Setting Up Apple Mail For Mac

Step 1 - Click Mail Add Account. Open the Mail application on your Mac.

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Click Mail in the top left corner and select Add Account. Step 2 - Select an account type Select Other Mail Account. And click Continue.

Step 1 - Click Mail > Add Account Step 2 - Select an account type Step 3 - Enter your. Setting up Mail OS X - Sierra. Open the Mail application on your Mac.

Step 3 - Enter your account details. Type in your name, it will be visible as the sender. Enter the email address you want to set up. Enter the password, you also use it for Webmail. Click Sign in. Step 4 - Enter mail server settings You will now see a red error message, just ignore this. Enter the following server settings:.

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Account type: IMAP. Incoming Mail Server: imap.one.com. Outgoing Mail Server: send.one.com Click Sign in. Step 5 - Select only Mail app Uncheck the box for Notes, so only the Mail app is selected, and click Done.

Step 6 - Go to Mail Preferences Click Mail in the top left corner and select Preferences. Step 7 - Change incoming server port. Click Accounts in the top menu. Go the the tab Server Settings. Under Incoming Mail server, uncheck the box for Automatically manage connection settings.

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Change the portnumber to 993. Click Save. Step 8 - Set correct sent and trash folders By default, Mail selects the wrong folder to save your sent and deleted emails, so you need to manually change it to the correct folders. Go to the tab Mailbox Behaviors. Click the Sent mailbox and change the folder to Sent, @ your email account. Click the Trash mailbox and change this folder to Trash, @ your email account. Note: Mail OS X may not be able to detect IMAP folders that are empty.

If the correct folder is not available, log in to Webmail and place an email in the folder. Then try again. Step 9 - Check Mailbox Behaviors In the end your settings in the Mailbox Behaviors tab should look like in the screenshot below. The INBOX prefixes will be added automatically. Related articles:Related articles.

Related stories. to its free Web e-mail service, Outlook.com.

Using IMAP is preferable to POP, because it offers a way to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. You can use Outlook.com with Apple's Mail app on OS X, but its new account wizard is preconfigured to use POP whenever you enter 'outlook.com' as your e-mail address. Here's how to set up Mail to use IMAP for Outlook.com instead of POP, so you can take advantage of the new IMAP support. Step 1: If you're using two-step verification with your Microsoft account, you need to go to and create an app password to use. If you're not using two-step verification, move on to Step 2.

Step 2: Launch the Mail app in OS X and start the add account wizard by going to File Add Account. If you've never used Mail and you're opening it for the first time, the add account wizard will appear automatically. Step 3: In the address field, enter a bogus e-mail address and leave the password field blank, then click Continue.

Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 4: For incoming mail server settings, make sure that the account type is set to IMAP, then enter 'imap-mail.outlook.com' as your incoming mail server. Enter your real Outlook.com e-mail address and password in the username and password fields. Remember to use your app password here if you're using two-step verification. Click Continue to move on to the outgoing mail server settings. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 5: Under outgoing mail server, enter 'smtp-mail.outlook.com.'

Check the box to use authentication, then click Continue. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 6: At the account summary page, double-check the mail server settings to make sure that everything has been entered correctly. You'll notice that your e-mail address shows up as the bogus address you entered in Step 2. We'll go back and fix this after the account's been created. Make sure to uncheck the box next to 'Take account online,' then click Create. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 7: When the Accounts window appears, select the account you just created from the left pane. When your account information appears, replace the bogus e-mail address with your real Outlook.com e-mail address.

When you're all done, close the Accounts window and make sure to save your changes. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET.