To start mail, click the mail icon located in the dock by default, or in your applications folder.

When you open up mail for the first time, a new window will show, saying Welcome to Mail. Now you will have to enter details for your first email account.

So enter your name into the Full Name field, your email in the Email Address field and enter the password for that email account, so it can verify the data with the mail server. When you entered all the details, click Continue…

Now you have to tell mail, where to get the emails from, so you have to enter the incoming mail server.

Now the first select box asks for a Account Type, 9 out of 10 that its going to be POP, this is the most used account type.

But say you have your own excange server, then select one of the other options.

You can enter anything in the description field, for example AppleTuts POP server.

The incoming mail server is a address you recived from your mail provider, often starts with pop.domain.com, or mail.domain.com, your host also has given you login creditials, you need to enter those in order to gain access to your mail.

When you clicked next, again a new window will show asking you for security information.

If you want a secure encrypted connection, check the checkbox Use SSL, this will increase the security!

Now depending of what kind of Authentication you have, you might wanna change it to a other setting then Password.

Although most of the time the default authentication type is just password.

So we setup our mail account to receive email, but we still have to setup the outgoing mail server in order to send emails.

So its kinda like the POP server settings, it will ask you for a description for example AppleTuts SMTP Server, and the address of the Outgoing Mail Server, wich most of the time starts with smtp.domain.com or mail.domain.com, now some SMTP server require you to authenticate with the server in order to send mail. If this is the case, check the Use Authentication checkbox and enter the User Name & Password that were given by your email provider.

Now just like the incoming mail server security, you also have the same option for the outgoing mail server.

So this has the exact same results as i explained before.

We are finished! Check the summary and make sure everything is correct, if not just hit the Go Back button.

If everything is correct, click the Take account online checkbox and hit Create!