Set Up Mail Manually

I have been trying unsuccessfully for a whole day set up Mac Mail for a web-hosting (GoDaddy) email imap account. Using the Mail wizard to set this up does not work. It gets the ports wrong, and there is nowhere in the set up process to actually set the ports to the correct numbers. Is there a way to set this up completely manually, without using the wizard that comes up when you click to Add Account?

let the wizard do its thing, then go back after the fact into Mail Preferences, choose the Accounts icon, and correct the information as necessary (i.e., port numbers). IMAP port info will be under the Advanced tab. SMTP port info is under Account Information tab (that's where IMAP server name is, too) and under the SMTP pulldown menu, choose Edit Server List, and click on Advanced tab if you have to use custom port or change authentication, etc.
When you go into Mail Preferences, if you don't see some icons "General," "Account Information," etc., go under the "View" on the menubar and choose "Show Toolbar."

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Mail ignores setting to check mail manually

Before downloading to Mail I prefer to check what is on the server so I can delete unwanted professional email and have only the ones I want come through to my computer. This has worked very well in the past when I've set Mail to check for new mail "Manually". But in recent years and OS's it fetches mail without waiting for me to click the "Get Mail" icon.
The only work around I've found is to un-click the "Enable this account" button in Mail Preferences. This is a royal pain and takes extra time going back and forth from my email to Account Preferences, and when the account is not "enabled" I cannot see all of it's content in Mail. Sometimes I have to turn off wifi to view my content without having it fetch unwanted email, another nuisance work around.
Why does Apple have a "Check Mail Manually" setting if it does not work??? Why does Apple assume everyone wants to download all of the email that arrives on the server? What happened to giving us a choice? Please bring back the user-friendly Apple that I grew to appreciate and now miss.

Do you mean this happens once when you launch Mail.app, or it continues to happen periodically after you've launched the application and while it continues to run?
If it's the former, this is a known issue that Apple introduced with 10.9 Mail.app; you can try filing a bug at https://bugreport.apple.com - they closed mine as a duplicate of an existing bug (14155759) when i filed 11 months ago and proceeded to do nothing about it through the 10.9.1 - 10.9.5 releases.

Setting up Mail on a network

After countless years of being subject to the tyranny of Windows (and other horrible operating systems going back to 1984), we (2 of us) have broken free and are now the proud owners of an iMac and a MacBook connected together by a wireless network. We achieved our freedom less than 2 weeks ago, so we are still in the throes of setting up our system and we would be grateful for some advice about Mail.
We have a POP mail account with a main e-mail address, but our previous mail program (Turnpike) allowed us to have further addresses by using mailboxes within the program. When I set up Mail on the iMac, I created the account, with 3 e-mail addresses (1 was the main one and the other 2 as 'aliases'(?)) and on the MacBook I created the account in the same way, but with the other 2 e-mail addresses - the main one wasn't included at all.
I had hoped that when either one of us logged on to get mail, then we would download only those messages specifically addressed to the e-mail addresses that I had entered in Mail Preferances|Accounts. (Am I making sense?) Unfortunately it didn't work - whichever of the 2 of us who logged on first downloaded all the messages, no matter who they were addressed to.
Then I decided to set up Mailboxes on the two machines - 3 on the iMac and 2 on the MacBook - with Rules which would redirect mail to the appropriate Mailbox. This is where I have come unstuck; the Rules operate perfectly well on the iMac, but I have no idea what to put after 'Move Message to Mailbox:' because the 2 Mailboxes are on the MacBook. Should I put the MacBook's name? Its IP address? Is this possible at all in Mail? Do I need to use a different e-mail application?
If anyone else has found a solution to this problem, I would be most grateful for your advice. Reading through this, I realise that I have gone on at great length and for that I apologise - especially to those who might be gently snoozing by now. We really do love our Macs and have all the symptoms of recent converts - boring anyone within hailing distance with interminable stories of how wonderful they are.
Many thanks.
iMac 20" Intel/ MacBook 13" Intel Mac OS X (10.4.7) Wireless network

our previous mail program (Turnpike) allowed us to have
further addresses by using mailboxes within the program.
I don't know what Turnpike is, but what you're saying here doesn't make sense.
I had hoped that when either one of us logged on to
get mail, then we would download only those messages
specifically addressed to the e-mail addresses that I
had entered in Mail Preferances|Accounts.
When Mail (or any other mail POP client) logs into your mail account on the server, it doesn't care at all what your email address is. The only thing that matters is the username and password required to log into the account. Once logged in, all the newly arrived messages there are downloaded.
I have no idea what to put after 'Move Message to
Mailbox:' because the 2 Mailboxes are on the MacBook.
Should I put the MacBook's name? Its IP address? Is
this possible at all in Mail?
You cannot move mail to mailboxes not stored within your home folder in Mail, neither with a rule nor manually. You may be able to overcome this limitation with a different mail client.

The default priority setting in Mail is set to "normal" and is causing emails I send to be sent with red priority flag. How can I set default priority to low = no flag?

The default priority setting in Mail is set to "normal" and is causing emails I send to be sent with red priority flag.
I have found the flags to reduce the priorty level manually to "low Priorty", but how can I set default priority to low = no flag?
Thank you for advising,

Try deleting the .plist.
Quit the application.
In Finder hold down the option/alt key while selecting the Go menu item. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you want to make your user library permanently visible, run the below command in Applications/Terminal.
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
You will need to do that after any updates.

What does checking mail manually mean on a macbook air?

what does checking mail manually mean on a macbook air, how is it done?

In Mail's preferences click on the General icon in the toolbar. Here you can set Mail to automatically check for mail Manually.
Then to check for mail you would have to click on the Get Mail icon in the mail browser window:
which is the icon that looks like an envelope.

Trouble setting POP3 mail service.

I am able to use my Gmail account without any trouble however I would like to also use my POP 3 email account. Currently I am able to receive email using my POP 3 account but when I try to set up and send an email message, I get the following error:
"Cannot connect to the mail server to verify your account information. Your server is not responding".
I am assuming that I have a setting incorrectly configured but I don't know what it might be. Again, I receive email just fine but am unable to send. Any suggestions?

AZSALUKI wrote:
i had the same problem (received fine, couldn't send). my internet provider AND verizon had given me the wrong outgoing server settings. i eventually found the correct one here in these forums. give us a little more info.
Charter is easy as that is what I had. In fact if you choose the phone to set up the email automatically it should work fine.
If you choose to set it up manually, unless you have a Charter business account, DO NOT use charterinternet.com settings.
UPDATE, I checked the Charter Web site and the settings for sending mail are correct in the list above.

I can't setup mail manually.

I can't setup mail manually. No Preference pane shows up when selected under the mail tab. I set my mail account automatically but I can receive mail but cannot send and want to configure the settings manually. It's a gmail account but without a gmail domain. OSX 10.9.3 MBP 15" Retina, Mail 7.3 (1878.2). This particular Mail account works fine on my desktop and on my iOS devices.

Quit Mail
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link.)
Scroll to Mail folder.
Rename Mail folder to MailXX
Open Mail, it will open with no data.
Can you see the Mail Preferences window?
If no, test in a new User.
CREATE A NEW USER
Go to System Preferences --> Create a New User in Users & Groups (Accounts. in SL) Switch to the New User by logging out under the Apple in the Menu Bar.
You can skip the Apple ID setup.
Open Mail.
Is Preferences window available?
If yes, then the problem is with your base files.
If no, then the problem is in your User's folder.
Let me know what you find.

Outlook 2010 duplicates mail with setting Leave mail on sever, Delete After n days and pressing Send/Receive All folders

The setting Leave mail on the server and Delete after n days and Pressing Send/Receive all folders causes outlook 2010 to duplicate all mails of the last n days over and over again.
If I leave outlook 2010 open this problem does not occur, mail will be retreived without a problem. If I leave Outlook 2010 open for a long time and then press Send/Receive all folders it does work ok. If I restart Outlook 2010 and then press Send/Receive
all folders the problem occurs.
The pst file is a new one. OTher mail accounts that do have Leave mail on the server but not Remove after n days do not have the duplicating behaviour.
I have manually removed 6400 duplicate mails, if Microsoft does not solve this urgent problem soon I need to remove Office 2010 from my computer and go back to Office 2007, Office 2007 worked fine for me.
Is there a solution fir this problem, or a free tool to remove all duplicates?

Dear Pieter,
I suggest creating a new Outlook profile, and create the problematic account in the new profile, to see if the problem occurs.
Here are the detailed steps on how to create a new profile to test this issue
==============
1.    Exit
Outlook.
2.    Go to
Start > Control Panel, click or double-click
Mail.
Mail appears in different Control Panel locations depending upon the version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, Control Panel view selected,
and whether a 32- or 64-bit operating system or version of Outlook is installed.
The easiest way to locate
Mail is to open Control Panel in Windows, and then in the
Search box at the top of window, type Mail. In
Control Panel for Windows XP, type Mail in the
Address box.
Note    The Mail icon appears after Outlook starts for the first time.
The title bar of the Mail Setup dialog box contains the name of the current profile. To select a different existing profile, click Show Profiles, select
the profile name, and then click Properties.
3.    Click
Show Profiles. Choose Prompt for a profile to be used.
4.    Click
Add.
5.    Type a name for the profile, and then click
OK. Please also follow the onscreen instructions to create the email account in this profile.
6.    Start
Outlook, and choose this new profile.
If this problem does not occur in the new Outlook profile, the old Outlook is corrupted. We can delete that and use a new Outlook profile.
Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything
I can do for you, please feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
Sally Tang

Mountain Lion 10.8.3 Mail - how to set push mail

Hi again folx.
I have one simple question:
On Mountain Lion 10.8.3 is there any way i can set push mail service on Mail. That means, when i recieve an e-mail, it instantly notifies me. Like on most smartphones. I have tried well known trick of setting it to manual check and few other settings, but thats not working..
Do you have any idea how to do this ?
In settings i can only see "check for new email every minute".
Thanks in advance.
Marko Stojanovic (Laynee).

Your email account/provider must support Push. Not all of them support it by default. Mail will support Push via the setup wizard choice of Exchange. So, as an example, if this is a GMail account, reset it up and pick Exchange instead of GMail for the wizard since that's a supported setup path for GMail accounts to enable Push capabilities on it.
Just keep in mind that the protocols used on the Mac to do the Push Exchange Activesync setup is a bit different than those used on iOS devices. I can't say without a doubt that it is supported on Mail, but I know you can do that setup for GMail on the mail client on an iOS device and it'll enable Push.

Checking mail manually

Hi - I have set mail preferences to check for mail Manually and turned 'push ' off in settings>mail etc..>
But when I open mail inbox, it checks for mail automatically. Can I turn this off properly ?
Thanks

Not unless you delete the mail account off.
Mine does the same, only when you go in to the mail icon. Theory is you would only press that if you wanted to check mail or read old mail so will obviously look for new mails.

VZ Contact Transfer will not work on Wi-Fi; Synch with iTunes sets up mail

VZ Contact Transfer goes into a loop with Verizon iPhone connected to your Wi-Fi and does not work.
Your wi-fi network will come up right after registering VZ iPhone. You could wait until later to allow it to connect.
Otherwise, disconnect router to force iPhone onto Verizon 3G network and proceed. If you click the change phone number button, it will get you a new access code to your old Verizon contacts from Verizon back up. (Back up before signing up on iPhone)
Took me hours of fooling around to learn this on another bulletin board.
Also after hours of fooling around to set up mail, synched iPhone thru iTunes to mail, calendar, etc and the email accounts set themselves up.
Hope this saves you some time
Enjoy!

I don't have an answer for you but from my experience iOS WiFi syncing has always been a hit and miss affair (more miss than hit I'm afraid). I have gotten to the stage where I rarely use the WiFi sync. It is just quicker, easier and much less stressful to use the USB cable. I am having the same issues with all the iOS devices in our family which includes various models of iPhone, iPad and an iPod Touch and have been having them since WiFi syncing was introduced (in iOS5 ???). And then I have not even mentioned my favorite iTunes syncing messages: "Waiting for items to copy" and "Waiting for changes to be applied"!
iTunes is always extremely quick and eager to pick up the devices but as soon as I click on sync it shows "Looking for iDevice" and then the device disappears. I have found that initiating the sync from the Settings app on the device prevents this issue.
It does however seem as if it is worse with Windows 7. I did not have so many issues with my previous Windows Vista PC.
Sorry I cannot be of any help.

Problems setting up Mail to Exchange

Hey everyone,
Having a few problems setting up mail to exchange on a Nokia 5800.
We have the latest version of Mail to Exchange installed.
Were using Microsoft Exchange 2007.
Example serup of what we have done:
Mail to exchange - New profile - Input Username and Password of domain account - Input domain name - Chose Internet as means of connection -
The Nokia goes off and searches for the domain information, finds it OK. Shows a message regarding a server certificate, we chose to install this certificate this time only.
Phone crashes?
Any ideas whats going on?
Thansk

Hi Jim,
Depending on the customer feedback, it works fine. Apple Mail the client that comes with OSX supports standard protocols (POP3, IMAP, SMTP), these are all supported by Exchange 2010.
If you're running Mac OS 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, you can still use the Mac Mail App to connect to your account. However, you need to connect to your account without using IMAP or POP.
If you're running Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard or Mac OS 10.7 Lion, you can use the Mail program included with those releases to connect to your email account automatically using an Exchange account.
When you use Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard or Mac OS 10.7 Lion and connect using an Exchange account, you can use features that aren't available to users who connect through IMAP or POP, including iCal and Address Book.
More details about Set up email in Mac OS X Mail, please refer to:
https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-in/article/Set-up-email-in-Mac-OS-X-Mail-de372dc4-9648-4044-a76c-e8a60e178d54?CorrelationId=a0ce4c19-1492-4e3b-bc7e-4af83d3cb347&ui=en-US&rs=en-IN&ad=IN
Additional, I find a similar thread about your question, for your reference:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/b112b61e-401f-4ad9-b459-a25673ff5407/connecting-to-exchange-2010-using-apple-mail?forum=exchange2010
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d3c9b4ad-822b-4a7c-88b8-39df3f166f96/how-to-setup-exchange-account-on-macbook-os-x?forum=exchange2010
Best Regards,
Allen Wang

Having trouble setting up Mail

I am trying to set up Mail, but I am having some difficulties with the information I need to add. For example, what is account type (POP, IMAP, Exchange), description and outlook web access server?

The World is Awesome wrote:
I am trying to set up Mail, but I am having some difficulties with the information I need to add. For example, what is account type (POP, IMAP, Exchange), description and outlook web access server?
POP3 and IMAP are two common protocols for receiving e-mail. Exchange is an e-mail server common in corporate environments.
Whatever is supplying you with e-mail service should have resources available for you to help you with this issue.

Having trouble setting up Mail with a POP account

I am trying to set up Mail with my Universities webmail service, and according to their tech page I need to set it to POP. I also made sure that I have the incoming and outgoing mail servers correct, and i've made certain that I am entering my username and password correctly. But when it loads and trys to get my mail it says that the password I supplied is incorrect, but I know that's not true. I am absolutley sure that both the username and password are entered correctly.
Does anybody know how I might fix this?
p.s. my girlfriend is having the exact same problem, so it isn't just me entering something wrong

I know you said the usernames/passwords are correct but, (if you can), login via webmail using those same strings, see if that works.
Write the text to a note and copy and paste from there so you are sure you've not input something wrongly.
Failing that do a quick keychain first aid too.
If that don't work then I'm out of ideas, (for now at least).

Hi, I have just set up my domain email address with google and Im trying to set up mail on my mac. Its receiving mail but its not letting me send emails from that address. I have tried quite a few solution but cant figure it out. Can anyone help

Hi, I have just set up my domain email address with google and Im trying to set up mail on my mac. Its receiving mail but its not letting me send emails from that address. I have tried quite a few solution but cant figure it out. Can anyone help

Hi Lawrence1981,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You may want to check this article for additional troubleshooting steps:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Cheers,
Jeremy

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