9 - Type your email address here.
10 - Select “Continue”
14 - Select “Continue”.
1 - Open the Mail program.
5 - Click the plus sign, another window opens.
6 - To change the “Account Type” to POP, Click on the bar (6a), a small window pops up listing email types, click on “POP” (6b). The others we’ll leave for another discussion.
2 - In the menu bar, click on Mail
4 - Select “Accounts”.
7 - Your first email account is probably called “POP Account” already. So change the “Account Description”, give it a different name. Use any name that is meaningful to you. i.e. Yahoo, Gmail etc.
3 - select “Preferences.”
Caution: If you are creating a new email account because you are changing Service Providers, be aware that you should not delete the old email account until you have imported the mail to your new account, or moved important mail out of your inbox, and sent box to folders as these may not be accessible after you delete the Mail Account.
Creating another Pop Mail Account
8 - Type the name you want to use for this email account here.
11 - Type the name of your “Incoming Mail Server” here. i.e. Telus, Shaw etc.
For a Gmail account it would be “pop.gmail.com”. (If you don’t know, ask your Service Provider, or someone who uses the same service.)
13 - Your Password here!
12 - The “User Name” inserted will be the name you used for your email address.
(Note: Sometime Service Providers will ask you to put in the complete email address as the User Name. )
15 - Insert name of the “Outgoing Mail Server”. (i.e. smtp.gmail.com)
15a - Note: Some ISP’s require Authentication. Leave the checkbox blank and go to step #16 unless directed otherwise or are experiencing a problem.
16 - Click “Continue”. It may take a few moments for the next screen to come up while the system is setting things up. If nothing seems to happen, click “Go Back” and go to step #15a.
15b - If Authentication is needed, click on the checkbox (15a) and type in your User Name (email address) and password in the boxes.
Note: At this point, the application attempts to connect to the email address. If if cannot connect, a message will display in the window. Click “Go Back”. Starting at step #11, check the the information you typed in carefully.
17 - This last window shows what you have put in the various fields. Click “Continue” and you are done.
