How to set up your Mac Mail manually

I. How to manually set up your mailbox

When you’re manually setting up your mailbox, make sure that you’re using the right logins (Email password), hostname etc).
In order to set up your Mac, you have to :
1.Click on Settings → Mail →Accounts → Add Account.
2.Once you’ve done all that, you’ll arrive on a page that looks like this and you’ll have to click on « Other » → « Add Mail Account ».

1. Enter your name, email address, password and he discription will automactically add itself
2.Click on « Next », afterward the will try to find your email settings and completes the configuration of your account.
3.If you’ve entered everything correctly the mail will find your seetings and all you’ll have to do is click on « Next », so you can be able to finalize the set up
Your configuration suppose to look like this :
Name : The email that is assigned on your plateforme (DirectAdmin or Plesk)
Email : The email you’ve assigned in « Name » Description : fills in automatically

II. Entering your account settings manually

If Mail cannot find your email setttings, you must enter them manually. Click on next, then do the following :
Select IMAP or POP for your new account. If you are not sure which option to select, contact your email provider
Enter the receiving server and sending server information. Then touch Next. If you do not have this information, try searching for it.
If your email settings are correct, touch Save to complete the configuration. If your email settings are incorrect, you will be prompted to change them .
Once you’ve entered the information, it suppose to look like this :

To modify the (POP or IMAP) you have to click on « Advanced » and to modify the SMTP Port you have to click on SMTP.