The Mail app for Mac will auto-detect settings and configure the email account to use on the Mac. That’s it, your new email account will be added to Mail on the Mac and configured to use.

Input your name, email address, and the password to the email address and sign-in.

Select the email service you want to add a new email account for from the list, if the email account service is not listed choose “Add other Mail Account”.

Pull down the “Mail” menu and choose “Add Account”.

This will add a new email account to Mail app, the default email client in Mac OS: Configuration is the same on virtually every vaguely new release of Mac system software, whether it’s macOS or Mac OS X. Technically you can add many email accounts to the Mail app if you want to, there is no small limitation on the number of accounts that can be configured within the app. You can use this to add another email account to Mail on Mac, setup a new email account, or even add a fresh email account that has never been used before.

Sign in with your email address or the Apple ID that you use with your iCloud account.This guide will walk through the process of adding an email account to the Mac so that it can be checked, managed, and used from the Mail app.

You can't sign in to with an email alias.

You can change or delete an email alias, but if you delete an or email alias, you can't add it back to your iCloud account.

If you created one or more email aliases for your account, be aware of the following:

In each case, you can sign in to iCloud with either your email address or the Apple ID that you use with your iCloud account. If you had a working email address as of July 9, 2008, kept your MobileMe account active, and moved to iCloud before August 1, 2012, you can use and email addresses with your iCloud account.If you created an iCloud account before September 19, 2012, or moved to iCloud with an active MobileMe account before August 1, 2012, you have both and email addresses.

If you created an iCloud account on or after September 19, 2012, your email address ends with Learn more about mail addresses.Review these scenarios to see which one applies to you:

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