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How can I configure email in Apple Mail?
Applies to: All DV, Grid
Difficulty: Easy
Time needed: 10 minutes
Tools needed: Apple Mail, email address
- Applies to: Grid
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time Needed: 10
- Tools Required: Apple Mail
- Applies to: DV
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time Needed: 10
- Tools Required: Apple Mail
Overview
Apple Mail is the default email client that comes with every Mac using OS X 10.0 or later. This guide will show you how to configure your Apple Mail application to access email for your (mt) Media Temple server.
This is for the latest version of Apple Mail, version 5.0 on Lion OS 10.7. Your version of Apple Mail may vary depending on the version of Mac OSX you are running.
Not sure which OSX version you're running? Check out: How do I find my operating system (OS) version on a Mac?
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Requirements
Before you start, be sure to have these handy:
- Your domain name: example.com
- Your email address: username@example.com
For more information, please read this article: Creating a POP/IMAP email accountCreating a POP/IMAP email account. - Your email password.
- Your access domain. Read our article What is an "Access Domain"? for more information.
READ ME FIRST
This article is provided as a courtesy. Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting third-party applications is outside the scope of support provided by (mt) Media Temple. Please take a moment to review the Statement of Support.
READ ME FIRST
This article is provided as a courtesy. Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting third-party applications is outside the scope of support provided by (mt) Media Temple. Please take a moment to review the Statement of Support.
Instructions
Let's begin!
- Open Mail.
- Enter your email account information.
- Full Name: Your name as you would like it to appear.
- Email Address: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you're ready.
- Mail will attempt to contact the mail server. The default search uses "autodiscover.example.com" -- unless you have this subdomain already created and an SSL Certificate installed, this will fail. Click the Connect button to complete a manual set up.
- In the next screen, enter your information.:
- Account Type: From the menu, we recommend IMAP. To learn more, please see: Using Email: How IMAP worksUsing Email: How IMAP works.
- Description: Enter a short description.
- Incoming Mail Server: Your email access domainUse your IP address or mail.yourdomain.com.
- User Name: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you're ready.
- Next, we'll configure the Outgoing Mail Server.
Be sure to check the box for "Use Authentication."- Description: Enter a short description.
- Outgoing Mail Server: Your email access domainUse your IP address or mail.yourdomain.com.
- User Name: Your full email address.
- Password: The password you assigned to the email address.
Click the Continue button when you're ready.
- You will now have an Account Summary.
Click the Create button when you're ready.
- That's it! You just configured your (mt) email address on Apple Mail. You are now brought to your inbox.
Resources
- Common issues with Apple Mail
- How do I find my operating system (OS) version on a Mac?
- Apple Mail Support
- Apple Mail Cheatsheet