Make sure you have the Accounts
Icon selected.
Click on Account Information
The account type is POP.
Incoming Mail Server ......... in.oregoncoast.com
"User Name" should be your username do not include "@oregoncoast.com"
Outgoing Mail Server............ out.oregoncoast.com
You can edit the Outgoing Mail
Server by pressing the "Server Settings" button.
The Outgoing Mail Server should be out.oregoncoast.com
The Server port"
should be 25
Leave Authentication at None. You could choose Password, on some Mac systems this works better.
However, if you have another ISP, here is how to use Authentication so you can SEND
your oregoncoast.com email when you are using the other ISP. <-- click HERE
Special Mailboxes tab:
Set these three choices up
according to your own preferences. They can all be left at Never if you
want.
however, your mailbox is 50 MB and if you exceed that amount, your email will be automatically purged.
logging on to Web Mail can allow you to manually delete your email so you won't lose it.
Last, please take a
look at the Advanced options:
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 in.oregoncoast.com .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 in the picture, which is a good idea.
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.
the port should
be 110. This should not have to be changed.
Authentication should be set to "none."
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. |
