Setting up your personal email account in Apple Mail® lets you send and receive your email using familiar tools. This article uses screenshots from Mac OS X® 10.6 Snow Leopard, but previous versions use the same settings.

Before You Start:

• Have your full email address and account password ready.
• Your incoming and outgoing server names are mail.yourdomain.com (where yourdomain.com is substitued with your domain name.) Your domain name is everything after the @ in your email address. (ie support@indesignfirm.com, indesignfirm.com is the domain name)

To Use Apple Mail with POP Email

1. Launch Mail.
2. From the Mail menu, select Preferences.
3. Click Create an Account (+ symbol).
4. Complete the following fields, and then click Continue.

   Full Name

   The name to display on your email.

   Email Address

   Your email address.

   Password

   Your email account password.

5. Complete the following fields, and then click Continue.

   Account Type

   Select POP.

   Description

   A description of the email address to display in the email account list in Mail.

   Incoming Mail Server

   The incoming server name determined for this domain. Your incoming and outgoing server names are mail.yourdomain.com (where yourdomain.com is substitued with your domain name.) Your domain name is everything after the @ in your email address. (ie support@indesignfirm.com, indesignfirm.com is the domain name)

   User Name

   Your full email address.

   Password

   Your email account password.

6. Complete the following fields, and then click Continue.

   Description

   A description of the SMTP server to display in the SMTP server list in Mail, e.g. mail.yourdomain.com.

   Outgoing Mail Server

   The outgoing server name is. mail.yourdomain.com

   Use Authentication

   Select this option.

   User Name

   Your full email address.

   Password

   Your email account password.

7. Click Create.

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