Mail

First "POP" and "POP3" are the same thing. I can't really tell what you have to fill in, but usally it's either mail.provider.com (or .org/.net) or pop. provider.com.

 

OS X gives you the option of importing your mail settings.

or

Look at:

Tools>Options>Accounts>

for your old email account settings and use the same POP and SMTP settings from there. User name and password in the obvious place...it will walk you through the setup.

 

I see that Optimum Online offers 5 separate e-mail addresses per subscription.

"You can add up to 4 additional sub-account e-mail addresses by going to our Optimum Online Account Management system. Enter your primary e-mail name and password where prompted, and follow the instructions to add additional mailboxes."

Yes, they will also be @optonline.net adresses (most likely).

 

i have been trying to set up a mail account for my yahoo email address. it always says that it cant connect to the incoming and outgoing mail servers. can someone tell me what these are for yahoo accounts?

 

Did you pay for POP service with yahoo? Because POP won't work if you're just using a free yahoo email account.

 

As Gecko noted, you will have to create an account through optonline first. You cannot just enter the information in Mail.app and suddenly have an email account.

 

so i cant use mail then if im using a free account?

 

I don't believe so. You have to pay yahoo to use their POP service. See Yahoo Mail+:

http://mailplus.mail.yahoo.com/help

 

can someone reccomend a good free pop email service?

 

I suspect it's beyond the login page:

http://www.optonline.net/Registration?domain=/Home

That's the way it is on my ISP. Once you login and verify that you are a customer, you can create new email addresses.