

If you've used Mail to create email accounts, on the Mail > Add Account.Įnter the name, email address and password for your account > Sign In. If you just want to manage your Exchange email on the Mac, you can also set up POP or IMAP access to your account. If after repeating the steps Mail still isn't able to set up your account automatically, see What else do I need to know? in this article.

If the Mail program isn't able to set up your account automatically, wait a few minutes or a few hours, and then repeat these steps. Available choices are Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, and Notes. If you've used Mail to create email accounts, select Mail > Add Account.Įnter the name, email address and password for your Exchange account > Sign In.Ĭhoose the Mac apps you want to use with this account. If you've never used Mail to set up an email account, the Welcome to Mail page opens. Open Mail, and then do one of the following: If you're running Mac OS X version 10.10 or later, follow these steps to set up an Exchange email account: Set up Exchange account access using Mac OS X 10.10 or later See Add an email account to Outlook for instructions. If you have Outlook for Mac, you can use it to access your Exchange account. Set up Exchange account access using Outlook for Mac If just want to manage your Exchange email account on the Mac, you can use the Mac Mail app to connect to your account using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or Post Office Protocol (POP). Thanks.If you're running Mac OS X version 10.10 or later, you can use the Mac Mail, Calendar, and Contacts apps to connect to a Microsoft Exchange account. This is my first brush with anything carrying the Apple logo, so please spell it out to me real slowly. How can I make the Talktalk server and my Mac co-operate? No improvement in setting up emails though! The PC World guru (who earlier had sold me the Mac) suggested I should install a good Antivirus system, so I've spent more money on a McAfee package which has installed OK.

So the Gmail server and my Mac co-operate. I have used the same function (Mail/Add account) entirely successfully when adding a Gmail account to the Mac. The Talktalk website guides on how to do this ignore any possibility of error message - so they're not much help. Perhaps not surprisingly I have chosen to cancel. The options I'm given are a) to cancel the setup or b) continue with insecure password transfer. Firstly I select 'other account' (not Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) then I supply account name, email address ( ) and the password all of which have worked fine on my PC for the last 5 years.Īt this point I get an error message 'Can't send password securely to server' or equivalent paraphrase. I'm trying to add the first email account to my new Mac (OS X 10.9) using the fairly self-evident 'add account' function of Mail.
