

Click Accounts and then select the account that you want to manageĨ. Your emails will start populating/downloading to the Inbox folderħ. Click Save wait for Mail to verify the server settings, then close Mail preferences.Then change the port number from 587 to 465.Under Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), uncheck the Automatically manage connection settings check box.If a local firewall or your Internet Service Provider (ISP) blocks port 587, you can use an alternative port 465 with SSL encryption. The default secure settings for our outgoing mail server use port number 587 with TLS encryption. Click Accounts and then select the account that you want to manage. Settings related to the Outgoing Mail Server. Apple Mail will begin synchronizing all your mail folders.ħ. Select the apps you want to use with this account and click Done. Password: The email password you use to sign in to your account.Email Address: Enter your complete email address.If the mail settings lookup fails and you get an “Unable to verify account name or password” notification, enter the settings below: Fill out your Name, Email Address and Password. On the Choose a Mail account provider prompt, select Other Mail Account and then click Continue.ģ. This article contains the following sections:ġ.1 If you are opening Mail for the first time and you haven’t already set up an email account, you will be prompted to set up one.ġ.2 If you're adding an additional account, choose Mail and click Add AccountĢ. Please follow the step-by-step configuration instructions below. Thanks.This article will help you to set up your Open-Xchange (POP/IMAP) mailbox in Mail (Apple Mail or Mail app) version 10 on macOS Sierra. This is my first brush with anything carrying the Apple logo, so please spell it out to me real slowly. How can I make the Talktalk server and my Mac co-operate? No improvement in setting up emails though! The PC World guru (who earlier had sold me the Mac) suggested I should install a good Antivirus system, so I've spent more money on a McAfee package which has installed OK. So the Gmail server and my Mac co-operate. I have used the same function (Mail/Add account) entirely successfully when adding a Gmail account to the Mac. The Talktalk website guides on how to do this ignore any possibility of error message - so they're not much help. Perhaps not surprisingly I have chosen to cancel. The options I'm given are a) to cancel the setup or b) continue with insecure password transfer. Firstly I select 'other account' (not Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) then I supply account name, email address ( ) and the password all of which have worked fine on my PC for the last 5 years.Īt this point I get an error message 'Can't send password securely to server' or equivalent paraphrase. I'm trying to add the first email account to my new Mac (OS X 10.9) using the fairly self-evident 'add account' function of Mail.
