Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of faq/email/setup-macmail
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v5 v6 7 7 [[Image(macmail_addaccount.png)]] 8 8 9 * Fill in your full name as you'd like it to be displayed on outgoing emails, your email address, and your email password. This password should have been assigned to you by May First or by your organization's account manager when your email account was created; it's the same one you use to access May First webmail. 9 * Fill in your full name as you'd like it to be displayed on outgoing emails, your email address, and your email password. This password should have been assigned to you by May First or by your organization's account manager when your email account was created; it's the same one you use to access May First webmail. Click '''Continue'''. 10 10 11 11 [[Image(macmail_accountinfo.png)]] 12 12 13 * Fill in your incoming mail information. Your username and password should have been assigned to your by May First or you organization's account manager when your email account was created.13 * Select either POP or IMAP from the '''Account Type''' dropdown menu. (For help understanding and choosing between the two, see [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/pop_vs_imap this guide from our wiki].) Enter a '''Description''' that will help you remember what account this is. Enter your account's server address in the '''Incoming Mail Server''' field. This is the Server name that you choose when using May First webmail, all lowercase, followed by ".mayfirst.org". For example, if you select "Albizu" from the Server menu when logging into webmail, your incoming mail server is "albizu.mayfirst.org". You can also ask your organization's account manager or log into the May First Member Control Panel and check what your primary host is from there. Enter your account's username and password; again, these are the same username and password that you enter when logging into May First webmail. 14 14 15 [[Image(macmail 3.png)]]15 [[Image(macmail_incomingserver.png)]] 16 16 17 17 * If you get the following error about not being able to connect to the server - you can safey ignore it. You are getting the error because we haven't properly setup security yet.