How to set up an IMAP email on a mac
Hopefully this should help in setting up your IMAP email accounts on your mac, the steps would be pretty similar on a windows PC too, it is essentially just entering the correct usernames and passwords when promoted.
Step 1. Open up Mac Mail, and go to Mail » Preferences
Step 2. Select the “Accounts” Tab and click the “+” button at the bottom left.
Step 3. Enter the details here, the “Full Name” will what is displayed when you send an email, so if you send an email to bob@domain.com it will show up in his inbox as, in the case “Milkbottle Test” This would normally be your name.
Step 4. You might be asked to verify the security certificate, depending on your hosting will depend if SSL is turned on, this can be turned off, I’m yet to see a real life advantage to having SSL turned. With Mac Mail it turns it on by default. Once the account it set up you can turn these off pretty easily by going to the advanced tab in the account you want to change.
Step 5. This is you incoming server details. “Account Type” will default to POP, but we want to set up an IMAP email account so change this. “Description” will be what your mailbox will be labelled as in Mac Mail. This becomes pretty vital if you have more than one email account on the same computer. It can be whatever you like as long as it distinguishes between the accounts.
Step 6. Simlilar to the incoming Mail Server setting, username and password plus the server name, The Description again can be whatever you want, it sometimes helps to make it account specific esspecially if you have more than one account set up, so maybe for bob@domain.com you might use “Bob outgoing”. This just helps later if you need to change anything. When it is all filled out click “Continue.”
Step 7. If all has gone to plan then click “Create” If for some reason it say something like “failed to connect to the server” then go back and double check you have entered all the field correctly, look for spelling mistakes, it is very easy to enter .com instead of .co.uk, triple check if you have to. If everything is correct and it still isn’t working then there could be a problem with the information you have been given, in which if you are one of my clients, give me a call and we’ll sort you out!
Step 8. You can now close the preferences panel.
Step 9. Time to test it. Send an email to another account and then reply from the other account. Then you know that you can send and receive mail. Your now good to go and enjoy your new email address.
Wilson Design Technology
Wilson Design Technology Ltd needed a simple but striking website design that showcased their services quickly and effectively. We also created a brand new logo design for them too.
A Simple website design with a simple content management system for Wilson design to control their own content, it was just what they needed.
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noshbooks.com
Web design for the noshbooks family of books. We have designed all the covers for these best selling books and we are currently in the throws of redesigning the new books. Joy May wanted to create a web presence, so we created this site for her to communicate with her customers, in fact she will answer any question you ask her about cooking, try her out, visit the website.
Milkbottle Photography
Milkbottle Wedding Photography is a sister company to Milkbottle Designs, we did the logo design, web design, stationery design and pretty much all the design work for them they need. Have a look at some of the examples below.
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iPhone retouch
We did a photoshoot of a new Mobile phone a couple of months back which we’ll be blooging about soon but it’s still confidential right now. To get the job we wanted to show the client how we could retouch. Me and Tim (Milkbottle Photography) both use iPhones so we thought what the heck let shoot our own phones.
This is the photo pretty much straight out of the camera, we never knew how dirty our phones were!
and this is the shot after we retouched it
The new site is here….
Hi, welcome to the new home of Milkbottle Designs, we’re really excited about our new site as it is our first ever blog. We have designed and advised about blogging for our clients but never got round to actually blogging ones self. We thought it’s about time we practice what we preach in more way than you know.
This blog is still in it’s infancy right now so the direction isn’t set in stone. Whilst we decide what to blog about have a look at the websites and printed media we have produced for our clients.
Kitty McCall
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Kitty McCall needed a website designing for her range of designs. She also needed simple way of selling her products online. So we intergrated the very popular Paypal shopping cart into the site. This gave her users the option to either pay via paypal or just using their credit cards.
The Kitty McCall designs are very colourful and intricate. We decided to design a simple website with limited colours to make sure that all the designs looked their best.
Services:
HTML, CSS, JQuery, CMS, WordPress
NOSH for GRADUATES
Design for print of cookery book from best selling student cookbook author Joy May.
Nosh Books
Noshbooks.com are the creators of the #1 Best selling Student cook book series that include Nosh for Students Vegetarian Nosh for Students and the latest book in the series, Nosh for Graduates. Website coming soon from Milkbottle Designs…
BTG
Bedford Training Group asked Milkbottle Design to design them a new brochure to present themselves to prospective students and parents in a more professional and confident way, this is what we came up with. A 22 page litho printed saddle stitched brochure.
