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E-mail setup for Mac Mail

Follow our step-by-step guide to set up your e-mail account for Mac Mail.

Don't hesitate to get in contact if you run into a problem!

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Step 1

  1. Go to: mail-01.datacenta.net
  2. Login with your email address as the username and email password as the password
    Then Click Login

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Step 2

Once logged in, you will be presented with the Webmail for your email account
You can send and recieve emails here, but we want to set this new email account to your Apple Device.

  1. click on the Settings button, which looks like a spanner in the top right hand corner, next to the disconnect button, that looks like a power button.

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Click Email Calendars and Contacts

Step 3

  1. Click on the link for Email, Calendar and Contacts IMAP, SMTP Cal/CardDav under Apple Connection profile with app password section.

    This will download whats called an Apple Profile file. This file contains all your configurations and crendentials for your email account. Once installed will setup your account into Mac Mail with synced Emails, Calendar and Contacts
  2. This profile file will be downloaded to your Downloads folder.

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Step 4

  1. Go to your Downloads folder and double click on that profile file


  2. Click on the Apple logo, in the top left hand corner and select System Settings.


  3. Then search 'profiles' by clicking in search field in system settings
  4. Double click on that new profile file, under the Downloaded part of the profiles settings page.

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Step 5

  1. This will popup, just click on Install
  2. To finalise the install of the email account, click on Install again.
  3. If interested, you can click on Show Details to see what it will install

    You may get prompted to input a password, if this happens, it will be your Mac login password and not your email account password

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Congratulations!

Your new e-mail address should now be up and running! If you open Mac Mail, you will see your new email account is setup.

One last thing, make sure to delete the profile file from the downloads folder, as it's not needed once it's installed.

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