Mail Setup

If this is the first time you’ve opened Apple Mail, you see this “Welcome to Mail” window. If you’ve used Apple’s Mail.app before and need to add an account, start by going to Preferences, click Accounts, and then click the + button to start a new account.

In every case along the way, we are going to use mail.mcghosting.com as the server, and your full email address as the username. Be aware your-domain-here should be replace with your personal or company or domain name

Enter basic Server Settings

In 10.5 you’ll only see only one Exchange option, this is OK.

You can set the Description to your desires, it will not be seen by others.

Set our Outgoing mail server to mail.mcghosting.com

You’ll see the review, success!

Adjusting our outgoing mail server

Go to the Mail menu and choose Preferences

Now to fix a bug in Mail.app

We’ll send email faster by assigning port 465 manually.

Go into Mail’s Preferences, under Accounts, and choose to “Edit SMTP Server List”

Enter port 465 for the Custom Port, and make sure Authentication is set to Password

Now, test your computer’s ability to Send

Despite entering the right password before, you’ll likely have to enter your email password one more time.

These are our Recommended settings.

We like to see if a message has an attachment even when in the message list.

Smart Addresses can be misleading, so we disable them

Displaying unread messages in Bold is a nice way to see what’s next.

Remote images in HTML messages is a method spammers use to see who’s opening their spam, and can also drag down Mail.app’s performance when opening that message from Sears with 15+ images. We recommend this be “off” and if you want to see what’s on sale, there will be a “Load Images” button available.

Smart Addresses is the reason you can’t see which email address you’re sending a message to, we recommend disabling that “feature”.

Disable Drafts being sent to the server.

There is a bug in Mail.app which would result in many copies of drafts, even after a message is sent.

Disable Mail.app’s junk mail filtering

You will receive a daily quarantine email with potiential spam.

By disabling the folder, you are giving yourself one less place to hunt down new emails.

Disable showing all addresses when sending to a group.

This feature was Enabled by default for quite some time, we don’t understand why…