How to set up your email in Mac Mail

The following are the steps to configuring a Phoogoo-hosted POP account in Mac Mail

Step 1: Receive your email settings
Your POP account will contain the following settings. Please save these settings in a secure place that you can reference, but that others cannot access.

Email: you@yourdomain.com
username: you+yourdomain.com
password: password
POP Server (Incoming): mail.yourdomain.com
SMTP Server (Outgoing): mail.yourdomain.com (use port 26)
SSL: No

Step 2: Configure Mac Mail

  1. Open Mail (click it on the Dock or open it from the Applications folder).
  2. If the “Welcome to Mail” assistant does not appear, choose Add Account from the File menu.
  3. Fill in the Full Name, Email address, and Passwordfields.Note: Your email account password will be stored in Keychain to allow you to automatically log in to your email account when you open Mail.How to configure Mac Mail
  4. Deselect “Automatically set up account” if it is enabled. Click Continue to proceed.
  5. Choose POP Account from the Account type options
  6. Give your account a useful description, such as “Anne’s Gmail account” or “Juan’s Yahoo! email account”. It can be called whatever you want.
  7. Enter your Incoming Mail Server, User Name and Password. Click Continue to proceed.
  8. If prompted, enter your Incoming Mail Security settings. Click Continue to proceed. How to configure Mac Mail
  9. For Outgoing Mail Server, a useful description such as “Gmail Outgoing Mail Server” or “Yahoo! Outgoing Mail Server”.
  10. Enter the Outgoing Mail Server details.
  11. Do not check “Use Authentication” Click Continue to proceed.
  12. If prompted, enter your Outgoing Mail Security settings. Click Continue to proceed.How to configure Mac Mail
  13. Verify your settings in the Account Summary. Check “Take account online”. Click “Create” to complete the process.
Step 3: Turn off SSL and change SMTP port to 26
  1. Under Mail > Preferences > Accounts select your email account.
  2. Next to “Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):” select “Edit SMTP Server List” from the drop down menu.
  3. Select the SMTP server you just set up and click the advanced tab. Select the “Use custom port” option and enter 26.
  4. Uncheck the “Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) check box and for authentication make sure “None” is selected.
How to configure Mac Mail