[Afzal]

How to Integrate Your Mac Email into Gmail/Live/Yahoo

BY AFZAL NAJAM

A lot of students hate using their McMaster email account, and frequently neglect to check it. MacInsiders user Afzal has written up some straight-forward instructions on how to integrate your Mac email into another email account.

First, we setup the mail-forwarding in your Mac account, as it is easier:

• Open your Mac Inbox
• Goto Rules
• Check Redirect All Mail to: and enter the email address you wish to use in the box below.
• Check Keep a copy and Preserve To/Cc Fields, if you want to
• Click update.

Now all e-mail arriving at your Mac email address with be forwarded to your desired inbox, except the Facebook Network verification email...for some reason, it doesn't arrive.

For Gmail:

• Open your Gmail Inbox
• Go to Settings > Accounts and Import
• Click the Send email as button
• Type your McMaster email
• Gmail will detect the SMTP server settings automatically, enter your Mac password in the form.
• Check your Mac email Inbox for the verification link/code, or check this same inbox for the forwarded mail (which should arrive due to the forward rule)
• Enter the code or follow the link
• To send email with your Mac email ID, click the dropdown menu in the From: field when composing an email/reply

For Windows Live Mail:

• Open up your WLM Inbox
• Click Options > More Options in the top right corner
• Manage your account > Send and receive email from other e-mail accounts
• Add an e-mail account
• Type your Mac email address and password
• Click advanced options, input > Incoming mail Server: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
• Check your Mac email Inbox for the verification link/code, or check this same inbox for the forwarded mail (which should arrive due to the forward rule)
• To send email with your Mac email ID, click the dropdown menu in the From: field when composing an email/reply

For Yahoo:

• Open your Yahoo! inbox
• Goto Options > Mail Options in the top right corner
• For the New Yahoo! version, click Accounts in the left pane. For the dod one, click Mail Addresses in the right pane (you have to be in the Mail section)
• Click Add > Enter Account name > Enter Name and your Mac Email ID
• Enter the following details:
  Mail Server: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
  username:
  password:
  Click Setup Mail server
• Send Verification
• Check your Mac email Inbox for the verification link/code, or check this same inbox for the forwarded mail (which should arrive due to the forward rule)
• Enter the Code or follow the link
• To send email with your Mac email ID, click the dropdown menu in the From: field when composing an email/reply

Now you can ditch that MUSS Server, but be sure to check it atleast once a month for any mail that is not forwarded.

You can also make a different rule for the forwarding so that the mail is marked as read when it is forwarded.

For this:

• Add a rule, edit it
• From the drop-down menu, select Mirror To:
• Enter your email address in the text box in the front. Click Update
• Select Mark in the newly appeared drop-down and type read as parameter.
• Back in the Rules page, empty the text box below Redirect All mails to: (otherwise you will receive 2 forwarded mails for every email.)

Thanks so much Afzal! Awesome tips!

If you have access to Microsoft Outlook, you can have access to all of your email acounts right on your computer desktop, and so learning how to use it could be beneficial, especially if you've paid for an Office package.

Hmm but what If your email forwarding thing was already in place automatically? Like for some reason all of my Mac Emails have always been forwarded to the hotmail I used during OUAC Applications!

Do we need to change anything or is it all good?

Originally Posted by huzaifa47

Hmm but what If your email forwarding thing was already in place automatically? Like for some reason all of my Mac Emails have always been forwarded to the hotmail I used during OUAC Applications!

Do we need to change anything or is it all good?

You should check if the rules in your McMaster e-mail account. The OUAC application e-mails were probably just because of that time since you technically didn't have a McMaster e-mail. (I don't see how you could have a McMaster e-mail without activating and enabling your MacID services).

Originally Posted by huzaifa47

Hmm but what If your email forwarding thing was already in place automatically? Like for some reason all of my Mac Emails have always been forwarded to the hotmail I used during OUAC Applications!

Do we need to change anything or is it all good?

are you sure? do mails sent in by teachers to your mcmaster email also reach your hotmail inbox?

Originally Posted by Taunton

If you have access to Microsoft Outlook, you can have access to all of your email acounts right on your computer desktop, and so learning how to use it could be beneficial, especially if you've paid for an Office package.

i have never used outlook in my life...mainly due to the reason that i can access my emails faster on web

Originally Posted by Afzal

i have never used outlook in my life...mainly due to the reason that i can access my emails faster on web

If you set up Outlook, then it would obviously be faster than opening a browser and pointing to a new page... the fact that you're comparing using Outlook to using a web browser and saying "I've never used outlook" doesn't really make much sense.

I'm just making the point that a lot of people have Outlook because they have Office, and they don't use it... it can be intimidating for new users at first, but you can get help on the web or from more experienced users like myself. Outlook is an extremely useful program if you learn how to use it.

very helpful, thank you

Originally Posted by Afzal

are you sure? do mails sent in by teachers to your mcmaster email also reach your hotmail inbox?

Yeah! Everything ever sent to my MacId email goes to my hotmail! Even though the sent section shows my MacId as the recepient!

Originally Posted by Taunton

If you set up Outlook, then it would obviously be faster than opening a browser and pointing to a new page... the fact that you're comparing using Outlook to using a web browser and saying "I've never used outlook" doesn't really make much sense.

I'm just making the point that a lot of people have Outlook because they have Office, and they don't use it... it can be intimidating for new users at first, but you can get help on the web or from more experienced users like myself. Outlook is an extremely useful program if you learn how to use it.

but it downloads every email....which is slow! I know how it works

This is great! Although I was getting all my McMaster emails forwarded to my hotmail account, I couldn’t figure out how to send a McMaster email from my hotmail account. This was really helpful

I just have a question - what is the Preserve To/Cc Field for?

Originally Posted by Afzal

but it downloads every email....which is slow! I know how it works

Lol whatever you say... I've been using it for years, and the only thing faster is my Blackberry.