How do I setup my email on Apple Mail?

Mail is the standard program bundled with MacOS X. We recommend Mail for ease of setup, usability, antispam features, and its ability to render graphical mail beautifully.

From Mail  Preferences   Account Information menu, choose the plus sign at lower left to create a new account.

General Information

1. Account type: POP
2. Account description: Enter an arbitrary description for this account.
3. Full name: Enter your name as you want it to appear in your outgoing mail.
4. Email address: Enter your Calinet email address (e.g. johndoe@calinet.com)

Click Continue

Incoming Mail Server

1. Incoming mail server: Enter mail.calinet.com (Hosting customers use mail.yourdomain.com where "yourdomain.com" is your domain name)
   
2. User name: Your user name is the same as your Email address. (e.g. johndoe@calinet.com)
3. Password: Enter your password

On continue, Mail will immediately attempt to check for the existense of this mail account at the incoming mail server. You can't proceed without correcting any errors at this step. Recheck all of your settings and contact support@calinet.com if you are unable to continue without errors.

Click Continue

Incoming Mail Security

No changes needed

Click Continue

Outgoing Mail Server

1. Outgoing mail server: Set to mail.calinet.com (Hosting customers use mail.yourdomain.com where "yourdomain.com" is your domain name)
2. Use authentication: Ensure that this is checked!
3. User name: Enter your email address, the same one you used for the incoming window above.
4. Password: Enter your standard password, the same one you used for the incoming window above.

On continue, Mail will immediately attempt to verify the existense of this server. If this check fails, ignore the error message and continue.

Click Continue

Outgoing Mail Security

No changes needed. 

Click Continue

Account Summary

No changes needed.

Testing

That's it. Test your Email setting by receiving and replying to an Email message from a friend.