How to Setup Email on Mac (El Capitan & Mavericks)

In this tutorial we're going to walk you through how to add an email account in your Mail application on a Mac. This applies to anyone using older verisions of macOS, El Capitan or Mavericks. In order to add an email to your Mail application you'll first need to make sure that you've created an email on your domain. Now that you've successfully added an email to your domain through your billing dashboard or in your control panel we can proceed.

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PLEASE NOTE: If at any time a Verify Certificate pop-up appears be sure to click the Connect button.

To add a new email account go to Mail > Add Account...

Add Account

Choose an account type Add Other Mail Account..." and click the Continue button.

Add Other Mail Account

The next pop-up will ask you to fill in your full name, email address, and password
     - Full Name: How your name appears
     - Email Address: hello@yourdomain.com (replace 'hello' with whatever you'd like and 'yourdomain.com' with your actual domain name). For example, yours might be contact@mommyblogger.com
     - Password: the password you chose when you created your email address in your billing dashboard or control panel

Add a Mail Account

When you click Next it may say Account must be manually configured. Click the Next button.

Please Note: Your Incoming Mail Server and Outgoing Mail Server may be different from the screenshot below. Please check your Welcome email for your server's hostname. If you want to send/receive email securely using your server's hostname and NOT mail.yourdomain.com. You can use mail.yourdomain.com to send/receive secure email only if your domain name has an SSL Certificate covering mail.yourdomain.com.

The new box will ask you for Incoming Mail Server Info
     - Choose IMAP (we strongly recommend IMAP)
     - Mail Server (secure): YOUR SERVER'S HOSTNAME
     - Username: hello@yourdomain.com
     - Password: Your email account's password

Incoming Mail Server Info

If a pop-up appears that says mail.yourdomain.com cannot be verified you'll want to click the Connect button
Verify Certificate

Now you'll enter your Outgoing Mail Server Info

     - SMTP Server (secure): YOUR SERVER'S HOSTNAME
     - Username: hello@yourdomain.com
     - Password: Your email account's password
     - Click the Create button
Outgoing Mail Server Info

Now that your account is set up let's double check a few more settings...

Go to Mail > Preferences
     - Make sure your settings look correct on the Account Information tab
Account Information

Click the Advanced tab and make sure settings look correct
     - IMAP Path Prefix: INBOX (ALL CAPS - this allows Mail to save your sent messages in the "Sent" inbox)
     - Port: 143 (Use SSL box checked)
Advanced

Click the Account Information tab again
     - Click the drop down menu located at Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): and choose Edit SMTP Server List...
Outgoing Mail Server SMTP

Select (highlight) the SMTP outgoing server
     - Use custom port: 465 (for SSL) or 587 (for TLS)
     - Check Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Outgoing SMTP Advanced

Save the settings and you're good to go! Now, you'll want to test your incoming and outgoing mail to make sure everything is working sending and receiving properly.


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