Setting up email in Apple Mail
This walkthrough shows you how to set up an email account using Apple Mail on Mac OS X Leopard. Other versions of Apple Mail have similar settings, so you can still use this page to help you set up other versions of Apple Mail.
To get started, select Mail > Preferences from the menu.
Click the "Accounts" icon in the preferences window and then the small "+" button at the bottom of the window to add a new account.
When the "Add Account" dialog pops up, enter the full name, email address and password we've given you. Then click "Continue".
On the next screen, select "POP" as the account type. Enter "mail.yourdomain.com" as the "Incoming Mail Server" and make sure your full email address is specified as the "User Name". Click "Continue".
Apple Mail will now try to connect to the incoming mail server using the details you've entered so far. If you receive a certificate error message, click "Connect" to bypass the error - we'll fix this up in a moment.
Now we need to specify the outgoing mail settings. Enter "mail.yourdomain.com" as the "Outgoing Mail Server" and make sure "Use Authentication" is checked. Your user name should be your full email address and password as before. Click "Continue".
Apple Mail will now try to connect to the outgoing mail server to check the details you've entered.
It should then display a summary of the account to be created. Click "Create".
Congratulations, you have just set up your mail account. We just have a few more settings to tweak and we're done.
Now we need to disable SSL. Making sure the account we just created is selected, click the "Advanced" tab and towards the bottom of the screen untick the "Use SSL" checkbox. Then click somewhere else, e.g the General button, to get Apple Mail to prompt you to save your settings. Click "Save" to disable SSL for the incoming mail server.
Finally, we also need to disable SSL on the outgoing mail server. Select the "Account Information" tab and click on the "Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)" field. A popup menu should appear, choose "Edit Server List...".
Untick the "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)" box and ensure that Password Authentication is selected, entering your full email address as the User Name together with the password we have given you. Click OK to save your settings.
We're done! To check that everything is set up correctly, try sending yourself an email. If you have any problems, please refer to our troubleshooting guide.