{"id":1001,"date":"2018-03-13T13:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2023-01-05T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:46:53","slug":"how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set-up email on your Mac using Apple Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following&nbsp;instructions show you how to setup an email account on&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Mail&nbsp;to work with your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\">I Need web Hosting<\/a>&nbsp;mailbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will need the following information&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your mailbox username (the email address)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The mailbox password<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The incoming and outgoing mail-server names.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Open Apple&nbsp;Mail<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open Mail. If you haven&#8217;t added a new account yet, you&#8217;ll be taken directly to the&nbsp;Add Account&nbsp;prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re&nbsp;adding an additional account, or this prompt doesn&#8217;t otherwise load automatically, you&#8217;ll need to select the &#8220;Add Account&#8221; from the&nbsp;Mail&nbsp;menu as below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail\/osx-mail-menu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/OSX-mail-menu.png\" alt=\"Select Add Account the Mail Menu\" class=\"wp-image-1002\" title=\"Select Add Account the Mail Menu\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Select the account type<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the&nbsp;Add Account&nbsp;prompt, select&nbsp;Add Other Mail Account&#8230;&nbsp;and click&nbsp;Continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail\/apple-mail-opening\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-opening.png\" alt=\"select Add Other Mail Account\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" title=\"select Add Other Mail Account\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-opening.png 420w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-opening-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Enter your Mailbox details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter your email account information and click create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full Name:&nbsp;Your name as you would like it to appear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email Address:&nbsp;Your full email address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Password:&nbsp;The password for your email account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail\/add-apple-mail-account\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/add-apple-mail-account.png\" alt=\"Add your Full name, mailbox username (email address) and password\" class=\"wp-image-1005\" title=\"Add your Full name, mailbox username (email address) and password\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/add-apple-mail-account.png 440w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/add-apple-mail-account-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Connecting to the&nbsp;mail-server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mail will attempt to contact the mail server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When an autodiscover setting has been unsuccessful, the message &#8220;Unable to verify account name or password&#8221; will&nbsp;appear in a new settings box. &nbsp;This is nothing to be concerned&nbsp;about. <strong>Follow stage 5 next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(The default search uses &#8220;autodiscover.example.com&#8221; &#8211; unless you have&nbsp;this subdomain already created and an SSL Certificate installed, this will not work. However, don&#8217;t worry! It&#8217;s normal for&nbsp;this to happen due to &#8220;I Need Web Hosting&#8221; servers not having autodiscover settings enabled by default.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Complete the name-server details.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fill in the fields using your email info and the domains mail-server names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(If you do not see this box and are using a version of Apple&nbsp;Mail that was released prior to OSX Sierra.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Email Address: Your full email address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User Name: Your full email address.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Password: The password to your email account.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Account Type:&nbsp;We&nbsp;<strong>strongly<\/strong>&nbsp;recommend connecting via IMAP.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incoming Mail Server:&nbsp;Either your IP address or mail.example.com.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outgoing Mail Server: Either your IP address or mail.example.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=1022\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1004\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-incoming-outgoing-mail-servers-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" width=\"440\" title=\"Add the incoming and outgoing mail-servers\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-incoming-outgoing-mail-servers-1.png 808w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-incoming-outgoing-mail-servers-1-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-incoming-outgoing-mail-servers-1-768x570.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Please note that by default, Apple Mail versions 10 and higher use secure (SSL) connections for both incoming&nbsp;and outgoing servers. We highly recommend that you do not change this, but SSL and port settings may be&nbsp;modified under server settings in the preferences menu once setup is complete.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Select linked apps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly you&#8217;ll be asked to confirm which apps that you&#8217;d like to attach the email account to. Select any others&nbsp;that you&#8217;d like and click Done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail\/apple-mail-accounts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1003\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-accounts.png\" alt=\"Select the apps the mail account uses\" class=\"wp-image-1003\" width=\"440\" title=\"Select the apps the mail account uses\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-accounts.png 814w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-accounts-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/ineedwebhosting.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/apple-mail-accounts-768x376.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 814px) 100vw, 814px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s it! You just configured your &nbsp;email address on Apple Mail. If you have any questions,&nbsp;please feel free contact support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following&nbsp;instructions show you how to setup an email account on&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Mail&nbsp;to work with your&nbsp;I Need web Hosting&nbsp;mailbox. 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