Mac Mail is a widely used free email program for Apple’s Mac OS X. On this page, we explain how to set up this program to retrieve your email from your ServerMeister services.
- Go to the Mail menu item and choose Preferences.
- Go to the “Accounts” tab.
- Click on the plus sign ‘Add Account’ at the bottom left.
Add account
- Enter your name and/or company name under ‘Full name:’. The recipient of your message sees this as the sender.
- Enter your email address under ‘Email address:’, for example ‘[email protected]’.
- Enter the corresponding email password under ‘Password:’.
- Click Continue.
- Choose ‘Connect’ in the security notification.
Incoming mail server
- Under ‘Account Type:’, choose ‘IMAP’.
- Under “Description:,” enter your general description for this account.
- You can look up the (incoming) IMAP server in the Control Panel by clicking on the ‘E-mail’ button in the menu bar. Usually this is mail.uwdomein.nl.
- Enter your full email address under ‘Username:’.
- Click Continue.
Outgoing mail server
- Enter your general description for the outgoing mail server under ‘Description:’.
- You can look up the (outgoing) SMTP server in the Control Panel by clicking on the ‘E-mail’ button in the menu bar. Usually this is mail.uwdomein.nl.
- Check ‘Use only this server’.
- Check ‘Use identity verification’.
- Enter your full email address and email password.
- Click Continue.
Account Overview
- You will see an overview of the settings. Check the box: ‘Put account online’.
- Click on ‘Create’.
Set up special folders
Folders such as Sent Items, Deleted Mail, Spam, and Drafts can be set up by following the steps below:
- Open Mac Mail.
- On the left side of the list, find the folder that you want to use, such as the Sent Items folder as the folder for your sent messages.
- Click on the folder and choose ‘Mailbox’ at the top of the bar.
- Choose “Use this mailbox as” and select “Mailbox for sent messages.”
- Repeat this process for your Deleted Mail, Spam, and Drafts folders.
The IMAP prefix/prefix
If you are unable to set up the special folders using the steps above, it may be that the IMAP prefix/prefix is not configured correctly. This can cause you to miss certain IMAP folders or have trouble setting up the dedicated folders. To fix this, change the IMAP prefix and then set up the folders. Before you modify the IMAP prefix, it is recommended that you check that the folders are not hidden or simply not set up using the steps above.
Set IMAP Prefix
Here’s how to set up the IMAP prefix:
- Click Mail, then choose Preferences.
- Go to the ‘Accounts’ tab and click on your mailbox.
- Go to the “Advanced” tab.
- For ‘IMAP path prefix’, enter ‘INBOX’ in capital letters.
- Close the preferences window, then choose Save.
- Now choose ‘Mail’ again and click on ‘Stop Mail’.
- Restart Mac Mail.
