Choose the correct email provider when adding an account to Mail

When adding an email account to Mail on your Apple device, you might need to choose from a list of common email service providers. Find out which provider is appropriate for your email address.

• About choosing an email provider

• Email providers for some common email addresses

• Email providers for other email addresses

• If you need to set up your email account again

  

About choosing an email provider

When adding an email account to Mail, you might be asked to choose from a list of email providers, such as iCloud, Google, Yahoo and Outlook.com. The correct choice for your email address might not be obvious, as the email provider’s name may not be part of your email address or your email provider may rely on a different provider for account authentication.

If you’re not asked to choose a provider, this means that your provider was identified automatically based on the email address you entered.

Email providers for some common addresses

Email providers for other email addresses

• If the email address is for a Microsoft Exchange-based email account, choose Microsoft Exchange from the list of providers.

• For any other email address not listed above, choose the Other account option at the bottom of the list of providers, then follow the onscreen steps to set up your account manually. You may need to enter email server addresses and other information, which you can get from your email provider.

If you need to set up your email account again

If the email provider you chose when adding your email account is not correct, remove the account from your device, then choose the correct email provider when adding it again. (If you don’t remove the account first, you may see a message stating that the email account already exists.)

• Remove an email account on iPhone

• Remove an email account on iPad

• Remove an email account on Mac

• Remove an email account on Apple Vision Pro

Find out more

• If you can’t send emails on iPhone or iPad

• If you can’t receive emails on iPhone or iPad

• If you can’t send or receive emails on Mac