Step 8: At the main Mail menu, go to Mailbox and select "Take All Accounts Online." When you're all done, close the Accounts window and make sure to save your changes. When your account information appears, replace the bogus e-mail address with your real e-mail address. Step 7: When the Accounts window appears, select the account you just created from the left pane. Make sure to uncheck the box next to "Take account online," then click Create. We'll go back and fix this after the account's been created. You'll notice that your e-mail address shows up as the bogus address you entered in Step 2. Step 6: At the account summary page, double-check the mail server settings to make sure that everything has been entered correctly. Referencing another email becomes a lot easier when its sent as an attachment and you dont have to scour your inbox to find it. Step 5: Under outgoing mail server, enter "." Check the box to use authentication, then click Continue. Click Continue to move on to the outgoing mail server settings. Remember to use your app password here if you're using two-step verification. Enter your real e-mail address and password in the username and password fields.
Step 4: For incoming mail server settings, make sure that the account type is set to IMAP, then enter "" as your incoming mail server. Step 3: In the address field, enter a bogus e-mail address and leave the password field blank, then click Continue. If you've never used Mail and you're opening it for the first time, the add account wizard will appear automatically. Step 2: Launch the Mail app in OS X and start the add account wizard by going to File > Add Account. If you're not using two-step verification, move on to Step 2.
Step 1: If you're using two-step verification with your Microsoft account, you need to go to and create an app password to use.
Here's how to set up Mail to use IMAP for instead of POP, so you can take advantage of the new IMAP support. You can use with Apple's Mail app on OS X, but its new account wizard is preconfigured to use POP whenever you enter "" as your e-mail address. Using IMAP is preferable to POP, because it offers a way to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. Microsoft finally added IMAP support to its free Web e-mail service,.
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