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When ready, click on Continue and wait until the new account information panel shows up.

This time, fill the information as follows: Since you didn’t write a password, Mail will display an error message instead.Ĭlick Continue and a new account information panel will show up. On the email account information panel introduce your full name and your email address but not your password (this is because Mail will try to connect to your account using the POP3 email protocol, and we want to avoid that). Now click on the “+” sign at the bottom left of the panel to create a new account. Once the Preferences panel shows up, click on the Accounts tab (the second one from the left). Let’s take a look at how to set up on your Mac’s Mail app through IMAP.įirst, open the Mail application on your Mac and head to the app’s Preferences by clicking on the Mail menu on the menu bar and by selecting Preferences. Thankfully, now finally supports the IMAP mail protocol, and even though Microsoft still recommends Exchange ActiveSync to sync your email, it is not necessary anymore. We even wrote about the differences between IMAP and POP email protocols before and concluded that IMAP has definitely a few advantages over POP email. Not only that, but nowadays almost every respectable email service uses IMAP.