How to setup Mail for a new e-mail account

This guide will show you how to properly set up Mail with a new email account to receive email from your server.

If you already have an account set up and need to configure it so that it automatically deletes old messages from your server, keeping your server space from filling up, click here for the existing account setup guide.

If you are having problems sending out emails from your newly created account, click here for instructions on how to resolve this problem.

1. Open Mail.

2. If this is your first time running Mail, skip to step 6 (the software will automatically prompt you to create a new email account), otherwise, proceed to step 3.

3. Go to your toolbar at the top of the screen and click on Mail and select Preferences.

4. On the window that pops up, select the Accounts Tab. The Accounts tab shows you your existing email accounts that are already configured with Mail.

5. Click on the "+" button on the bottom of the Accounts window to add a new email account and follow the instructions given.

6. A window will open to welcome you to Mail. Just click Continue to proceed.

7. When you get to the General Information window, select POP for the Account Type and fill in the rest of the form fields with your account information.

8. When you get to the Incoming Mail Server window, enter mail."your domain name".com (without the quotes) in the Incoming Mail Server text field, and then enter your username and your password and click Continue.

9. When you get to the Outgoing Mail Server window, enter smtp."your domain name".com (without the quotes) in the Outgoing Mail Server text field.

The rest can be left blank (unless your webmail server requires authentication).

Click Continue to move forward.

10. At the end of the setup process, you will be presented with a summary of your email account.

Click Continue to finish.