How to Setup Your Email on Apple

Where to find it

If you are running some version of OS X, Apple Mail comes with your Mac. If you do not see an icon for Apple Mail, double click the hard drive icon on your desktop. Then click the Applications tab on the left. You should see the Apple Mail icon along with your other programs.

Unless someone has previously setup an email account in Apple Mail, you should see this welcome screen the first time you run it.

If someone else already created one or more email accounts in Apple Mail, the Welcome to Mail window will not appear. To add a new email account to Apple Mail, please skip to Adding Email Accounts heading

Fill in the fields with your details from your ISP, the click the Ok button, and apple mail try to establish a connection with your email server. If successful in establishing a connection, it will ask you if you want to import mailboxes from other email clients.

Adding Email Accounts

You can add email accounts in Apple Mail from the Preferences window. Go to Mail > Preferences, then click on Accounts. You should see the list of pre-existing email accounts. At the lower left corner of the window, click the (+) sign button to create a new email account.

Multiple Outtgoing Mail Servers (SMTP)

Click the Server Settings button. The SMTP Server Options window should have opened. You might need to double check your mail server's configuration with your email provider. Most email providers do not require that you authenticate yourself more than once per session → Authentication set to None should work otherwise simply change.

Signatures

Rather than having to type a signature in each email you send, Apple Mail can automatically append a pre-defined signature to your emails. To add a signature in Apple Mail, go to Mail > Preferences, then click the Signatures tab.

Click the Add Signature button; a text area will slide open, and let you type your signature.

Referencing

Free Email Tutorials - Retrieved 9 Sept 2010