You will need your email server settings to set up your email program. Please click here and enter your email address. Print or write down the information that is displayed for use during this walk through.

Open Mail.

If you do not already have an account set up, click here. If you want to change your settings, keep going on this page.

Once you've opened Mail, click on the menu labeled "Mail," and select "Preferences."

Make sure you have the Accounts Icon selected. You're presented with a window which contains three tabs, "Account Information, "Special Mailboxes," and "Advanced." First, let's look at the "Account Information" tab.

The Account type was determined when you set up the account. You cannot change it unless you delete this account and create a new one. The account type is POP.

Description can be whatever you like, but it is recommended that you use something descriptive.

Email Address should be your methownet email address.

Full Name can be your name, or whatever text you'd like to be seen as your name when you send email.

Incoming Mail Server should be mail.methownet.com

"User Name" should be your username.methownet (Make sure to include the .methownet

Password is the password for your methownet login name.

You can edit the Outgoing Mail Server by pressing the "Server Settings" button.

The Outgoing Mail Server should bemail.methownet.com

The Server port" should be 25

Set these three choices up according to your own preferences. They can all be left at Never if you want.

Enable this account means that you will be able to send and receive mail from this group of mail settings.

Include this account when automatically checking for new mail , keep that checked.

Remove copy from server after retrieving a message means that Mail will delete every message you download from pop.methownet.com after it's been downloaded, and after the time specified by the pull down menu just below that checkbox. We have set our OS X Mail program to delete the messages after one week.

You can use the "Remove now" button to delete any old mail on the server that's sitting there right now, if you wish.

Prompt me to skip messages over [ ] KB will let you tell Mail to not download messages larger than a certain size. Most people just leave this off. This will tell Mail to not download any particular message exceeding a certain file size. If you don't want to use it, leave the field blank.

If you're using SSL, the default port will be 995. If you're not using SSL, the port should be 110.

Authentication should be set to "Password."

For more information about the behavior of each of these advanced options, click on the "?" button in the lower-right corner of this window.

That's it! Press OK and close the account window. You are ready to use Mail for OS X.

Setting up Mail in Mac OS X

It's easy to set up and begin using Mac OS X's Mail application.

Tip: If you entered your email account information when you registered Mac OS X, you don't need to set up Mail again.

How to set up Mail

Tip: For Mac OS X 10.4 or later setup information, see this page, and also this one.

First, gather some information about your email account. Your Internet service provider or network administrator provides the information:

Type of email account you have (IMAP, POP, or UNIX)
Your email address
Your account password
Mail server ("host") name or names (such as mail.mac.com).
SMTP password (if required)

Tip: Some Internet service providers may use one mail server for incoming and outgoing mail. Others may use two servers. If only one server is used, use the same server name twice where it is required by Mail. Examples of names would be "mail.mac.com" and "smtp.mac.com".

Next, follow these steps to configure Mail:

Open Mail.
Choose Preferences from the Mail menu. If you have not yet set up any accounts, the Mail Setup window appears, and you can skip to Step 7.
Click the Accounts icon in the Mail Preferences window.
Click Create Account.
Choose the correct account type from the pop-up menu.
In the Description field, type any name you would like to use to identify the account. This is the name that will appear in your list of accounts.
Using the rest of the information you gathered, complete the rest of the fields. If your Internet provider gave you an SMTP password, be sure to click the checkbox to enable the "Use authentication when sending mail" option. If your Internet service provider does not require this, simply leave the two fields below the checkbox empty.
If desired, click the Account Options tabs to change the default account behavior.
Click OK when you are finished.

Repeat these steps for any other accounts you want to set up.

If you've set things up but can't seem to get or send email, you might need to contact your ISP for assistance, or visit any online help or support websites they offer.

How to delete an account

Tip: Before deleting an account, save any messages you don't want to erase in a different location, such as the desktop or the On My Mac mailbox. If you are switching from a POP account to an IMAP account, set up the IMAP account first, then drag messages you want to save from the POP mailbox(es) to the IMAP mailbox(es), before deleting the POP account.

Choose Preferences from the Mail menu.
Click Accounts.
Select the account you want to delete.
Click Remove.