How To Set Up Your Email Account on Mac Mail

This article explains how to add an existing email account to Mac Mail. The guide also outlines the required setup information and provides step-by-step instructions for configuring the account in Mac Mail.

Prepare your email configuration settings 

Before configuring your email account on Mac Mail, ensure that the email account has already been created, configured, and verified to be working correctly. Mac Mail can only connect to an existing email account and cannot be used to create one. 

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Set up your email account on Mac Mail

With your email configuration settings ready, you can now add and configure your email account in the Mac Mail application. 

1. Open the Mail app on your Mac PC.  
2. Select Mail, then click Add Account.  
3. Enter the email address that you want to set up.  
4. Click Continue, then follow the instructions to enter the account information.