Set Up Your E-mail Account in Mac Mail (OS X)
This tutorial will show you how to set up your email account in Mail.
1. Select Mail > Preferences.
2. Click the "Accounts" tab.
3. To add a new account, click the plus (+) button, located
in the bottom left corner of the window, to launch the
Setup Assistant.
4. On the Add Account window, enter your information as follows:
Full name: Enter your first and last name.
Email address: Enter your email address.
Password: Enter the password you set up for the email account.
5. Click Continue.
6. On the Incoming Mail Server window, enter your information as follows:
Account type: Choose POP.
Description: (Optional) Add a description to the account e.g. "My work account".
Incoming mail server: Enter mail.yourdomain.co.nz (where yourdomain is your websites url) for your incoming mail server.
User name: Enter your email address.
Password: This should already be populated with your password from the previous window. If not, enter the same password as in the previous step.
7. Click Continue.
8. On the Outgoing mail server window, enter your details as follows:
Description: The Name of your Internet service provider (xtra, slingshot, telstraclear etc.)
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Enter smtp.your-isp.co.nz (where your-isp is your internet service provider [xtra, slingshot, telstraclear etc.])
9. Click Continue
An Account Summary window should appear with all of your account details. Double check to make sure all of your details are correct and tick the "Take account online" tickbox. Click Create and your done.
Leave Emails On The Server
If more than one person (or computer) is using the same email account, you can set up Mail to leave the emails on the server for up to one month. This will enable everyone (or machine) to read ALL of the emails before they are removed from the server.
1. Select Mail > Preferences.
2. Click the "Accounts" tab.
3. Then, under Accounts, click the "Advanced" tab.
4. If the tickbox beside "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message" is unticked, tick it.
5. Click the dropdown and choose "After one month."
And that's it, all done.