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Setting up your email application

Setting up your email application - macOS Tutorial

From the course: Computer Literacy for Mac

Setting up your email application

- [Instructor] There are two basic ways to access your email, either through your email provider's website. For example, you could go to gmail.com in your web browser to access your Gmail email, or you could use one of several available email applications to download, read, write, and manage your email. macOS has a built-in application, simply called Mail that you can use, or alternately, you can use third party email applications like Mozilla Thunderbird, or any other third party program like Airmail or Spark. These email applications are referred to as email clients, and again, you can use these clients or access your email through a web browser or both. If you choose to go the web-based email route, there's very little you need to set up. Just go to your email services website and log in with your username and password. And this doesn't just apply to free email services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail. Many businesses and schools offer their employees and students web access to their…

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