Setting Up A New Email Account

Mail - Mac OS X

Start up Mail by clicking it's icon in the dock or by finding the application on your hard drive, navigate to the menu bar at the top of the screen and select "Mail" followed by "Preferences".

The Preferences window appears. Click the "Accounts" icon as illustrated below:

Make sure you have the "Account Information" tab selected and click the + at the bottom left of the window (circled red below)select an account type of POP from the first drop down menu.

In the "Account Description" field, type in a name for the account that will make it easy for you to identify the account. Next, type in your email address. If you are setting up your main 'Catch All' account, your welcome email may well have told you that your email address is "anything-you-like@yourdomain.com". Don't type that in unless that's the email address you wish to use. Something more appropriate might be info@mydomain.com Your "Full Name" should be fairly self explanatory. The incoming mail server should be set to the domain name part of your email address so if your address is info@mydomain.com, the Incoming Mail Server should be mydomain.com.

Next, type in the username and password provided to you when you ordered the email account. Normally, your username will take the form of username-mydomain-com unless the account is a catch-all, in which case your username will be mydomain-com. Remember that usernames and passwords are case sensitive, so type in your information exactly as it appears on your welcome email or invoice.

The final step is to set up the "Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server" If you already have an Outgoing Mail Server set up for a different email account, you can just select that server and skip adding a new one. However, if the outgoing server refuses to let you send mail (i.e. you get error messages when sending mail from your new account), complete the following:

Select "Add Server" from the drop down menu as illustrated below:

Type your domain name into the "Outgoing Mail Server" field (without the www part) and make sure the other fields are identical to the ones illustrated below and click OK.

The Mail Accounts Preferences page should now look similar to the page illustrated below but with your unique information.

Close the Preferences window using the close button in the top left of the Preferences window. Mail will ask you if you want to save the changes made to your new email account. Click "Save" and your email account is ready to use.