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Setting up e-Mail in Mac OS X:
It's easy to set up and begin using Mac OS X's Mail application.
Tip: If you entered your email account information when you registered Mac OS X, you don't need to set up Mail again.
How to set up Mail
First, gather some information about your email account. Your Internet service provider or network administrator provides the information:
- Type of email account you have with Support Unlimited is a POP account.
- Your email address
- Your email account password
- Mail server ("host") name or names (such as mail.yourdomainname.com).
- SMTP password is to use the same settings as your incoming mail server.
Next, follow these steps to configure Mail:
- Open Mail.
- Choose Preferences from the Mail menu. If you have not yet set up any accounts, the Mail Setup window appears, and you can skip to Step 7.
- Click the Accounts icon in the Mail Preferences window.
- Click Create Account.
- Choose the POP account type from the pop-up menu.
- In the Description field, type any name you would like to use to identify the account. This is the name that will appear in your list of accounts.
- Using the rest of the information you gathered, complete the rest of the fields. Be sure to click the checkbox to enable the "Use authentication when sending mail" option.
- If desired, click the Account Options tabs to change the default account behavior.
- Click OK when you are finished.
Repeat these steps for any other accounts you want to set up.
How to delete an account
Tip: Before deleting an account, save any messages you don't want to erase in a different location, such as the desktop or the On My Mac mailbox. If you are switching from a POP account to an IMAP account, set up the IMAP account first, then drag messages you want to save from the POP mailbox(es) to the IMAP mailbox(es), before deleting the POP account.
- Choose Preferences from the Mail menu.
- Click Accounts.
- Select the account you want to delete.
- Click Remove.
The following resources may also be helpful for use in setting up and using Mac Mail:
Mac 2.0 Mail Help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml89.html
Importing Email into Mac Mail:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml807.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61459
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106778
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