Click Add Email to follow the same path as with iOS to add another address to your Apple ID account, and thus make it available in Messages to use with iMessage. A list of email addresses appears under the You Can Be Reached for Messages At label.

Log in to the appropriate Apple ID, if it’s not already connected. In Messages in OS X, you choose Messages > Preferences, click the Accounts button, and select the iMessage entry. This leads you the Apple ID site, where you confirm the address. You add additional emails by tapping Add Another Email, then following a link embedded in an email message that will be sent to your Apple ID’s main address. You can tap to toggle their use as destinations on that device, or tap the blue detail arrow to remove the address altogether you can delete it from your Apple ID account, too, after you confirm that you want to do so. On all other devices, you see a list of phone numbers and email addresses that you’ve verified with your Apple ID. On an iPhone, the phone number will be checked and grayed-out, and cannot be de-selected you can only disable iMessage on the device. To set up all of these options in iOS, you tap Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. If you have an iPhone or iPhones, their phone numbers can be used with any other copy of Messages logged into the same Apple ID as well-that’s how you can get iMessages sent to your phone number on your Mac. Make sure you have Outlook application already installed (or install it) Īdd a new email account following this article ( alternative tutorial).Starting with iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2, when you are logged in with an Apple ID and you open the settings for Messages, you’ll see a list of every email address associated with that Apple ID. For this particular article, we will use hPanel and IMAP as a reference. In case you are not completely sure about your email password you can easily reset it for hPanel or cPanel.ĭepending on if you are using hPanel or cPanel, the email configuration details will differ. How to get email account configuration details in cPanel? How to get email account configuration details on hPanel?

If you prefer to set Outlook up manually, you need to make sure that:Īfter you have an email account created ( hPanel or cPanel), you can go ahead and collect your current email details: You can also automatically configure Mozilla Thunderbird and default Mail application. If you want to set up Outlook on your Mac automatically, make sure to follow this article.

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