To set up Mail, click on the postage stamp and then, once open, do the following:

 

   1. Once you've opened Mail, click on the menu labeled "Mail," and select "Preferences."

      Select Mail, then Preferences

   2. Next, you're presented with a window which contains three tabs, "Account Information, "Special Mailboxes," and "Advanced." First, let's look at the "Account Information" tab.

          * The "Account type" was determined when you set up the account. You cannot change it unless you delete this account and create a new one. The account type is "POP."

          * "Description" can be whatever you like, but it is recommended that you use something descriptive. This is just the description listed in Mail's list of email accounts.

          * "Email Address" should be your Wadsnet.com email address.

          * "Full Name" can be your name, or whatever text you'd like to be seen as your name when you send email.

          * "Incoming Mail Server" should be "mail.wadsnet.com"

          * "User Name" should be your Wadsnet.com Email address (example: username@wadsnet.com)

          * "Password" is the password for your Wadsnet.com username.

 

      Note: to add additional mail accounts, click the "+" button on the lower-left.

      Account Information settings

          * Now you can add the Outgoing Mail Server by pressing the selector next to 'Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)' and choose Edit Servers.

               1. The "Outgoing Mail Server" should be "smtp.wadsnet.com”

               2. The "Server port" should be "25"

               3. Change Authentication to password, then put in your email address in the username slot and your password in the password slot.

  

  SMTP Server Options screen

  

Once the settings are in there, click on OK and then click on the red X in the upper left hand of the window, you should be prompted to save settings. Click on Yes.

Now go back to the Mail>Prefrences and then click on Accounts, then click on the selector next to 'Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)' and choose smtp.wadsnet.com and then check 'Use only this server'. Close the window and Click on Yes.

That's it! Press "OK" and close the account window. You are ready to use Mail for OS X.