Set up your email in Mail on a Mac

About five minutes. You will need your email address and password, and the settings from Your email settings.

Steps

1. Open Mail.
2. Go to Mail ‚Üí Add Account in the menu bar. If this is your first account, the window appears on its own.
3. Choose Other Mail Account at the bottom, then Continue.
4. Fill in your name, full email address and password, then click Sign In.
5. Mail will report that it cannot verify the account name or password. That is expected — it does not know the server yet. The window expands to ask for it.
6. Fill in:
   • Account Type: IMAP
   • Incoming Mail Server: imap.yourdomain.com
   • Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.yourdomain.com
7. Click Sign In.
8. Choose which apps to use with the account — Mail is enough — and click Done.

Confirm the ports

Mail usually gets these right on its own, but it is worth checking:

1. Mail ‚Üí Settings ‚Üí Accounts ‚Üí your account
2. Under Server Settings, untick Automatically manage connection settings for both incoming and outgoing.
3. Incoming should be port 993 with TLS/SSL ticked.
4. Outgoing should be port 465 with TLS/SSL ticked and Authentication set to Password.
5. Click Save.

Check it worked

Send yourself an email from another account and reply to it.

If it does not work

Mail says the account name or password is incorrect, repeatedly

At step 5 this is normal and you can continue. If it persists after entering the server names, the password is wrong — check it in a plain text document first.

Outgoing server shows as offline

Go to Mail ‚Üí Settings ‚Üí Accounts ‚Üí your account ‚Üí Server Settings, and check the outgoing server is smtp.yourdomain.com and not "None".