Add Email Account on Mac

Summary

This guide will show step-by-step instructions for setting up email account in Mail on MacOS.

Add New Account

  1. Choose Preferences, from the Mail menu.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Click on the Accounts tab.
  4. On the Accounts window, click the + (plus) sign.

Account Settings

  1. Choose Add Other Mail Account
  2. Enter your Full Name, or as you would like it to appear on your sent email.
  3. Enter your Email Address.
  4. Enter your email account’s Password.
  5. Click the Continue button.
  6. A message should appear saying “Account must be manually configured”. Click Next.

 

Incoming Mail Server

When entering the information for your Incoming Mail Server you will need to decide if you would like to use POP3 or IMAP. POP3 will download and remove all of the emails from our server, whereas IMAP will synchronize the emails between your email client(s) and our server. IMAP is recommended if you will be using this email account with multiple devices since they will all synchronize.

 

  1. Choose your account type. You may select either POP or IMAP.
  2. Username: Your full email address.
  3. Password: The password for your email address.
  4. IMAP server: This will vary depending on if you choose to use SSL.
    • Without SSL: This will be your domain name preceded by “mail.”
    • With SSL: box3093.bluehost.com.
  5. Port:
    • Non-Secure (No SSL): 143
    • Secure (SSL): 993
    • Non-Secure POP3 (No SSL): 110
    • Secure POP3 (SSL): 995
      Note: Using “SSL (Accept all certificates)” will be more compatible.
  6. IMAP path prefix: Please enter INBOX. This will allow for you to store your Sent, Drafts and Deleted emails on the server.
  7. Tap Next

Outgoing Mail Server

  1. SMTP server: This will vary depending on if you choose to use SSL.
    • Without SSL: This will be your domain name preceded by “mail.”
    • With SSL: box3093.bluehost.com.
  2. Port:
    • Non-Secure (No SSL): 26
    • Secure (SSL): 465
      Note: Using “SSL (Accept all certificates)” will be more compatible.
  3. Require sign-in: Check this as you will need to authenticate with the SMTP server.
  4. Username: Please enter your full email address
  5. Password: The password for your email address.
  6. Tap Next

MacOS Yosemite

If you are running Yosemite you may want to change two options to make sure that your account settings don’t change. These steps only apply to apple computers running Yosemite.

  1. Choose Preferences, from the Mail menu.
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. Click on the Accounts tab.
  4. Click on Advanced.
  5. Uncheck the option labeled “Automatically detect and maintain settings“.
  6. Now Click on Account Information
  7. Under Outgoing Mail Server(SMTP) select the “Edit SMTP Server List” option.
  8. Click Advanced.
  9. Uncheck the option labeled “Automatically detect and maintain settings“.
  10. Click OK
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