Setting Up Your Accounts
The beauty of today’s Web-based email accounts (like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, AOL) and IMAP accounts (like your company’s mail system) is that you don’t have to transfer the messages from your old PC to your Mac. Just set up the account correctly, and marvel as the mail arrives on your Mac directly from the Internet—complete with folders full of sent mail, deleted mail, and so on.
The first time you open Mail, you’re offered the chance to set up those account types; just enter your email address and password, and you’re on your way. To add another email account later, choose Mail→Add Account.
If you have a POP account (the older type, where each message is downloaded to your computer and stored only there), see Bookmarks (Favorites) for details on importing your existing message stash to the Mac.
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