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Set up accounts for Mail, Calendar, and Contacts

Set up accounts for Mail, Calendar, and Contacts - macOS Tutorial

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Set up accounts for Mail, Calendar, and Contacts

- [Narrator] To work with the mail application in macOS and to use all of the features of the address book and the calendar, you need to have an email account that you can link to your Mac. Now, I'm not going to show you how to create a new email account. I'm assuming you already have an email account that you can use. Now, first, if you use iCloud, you may already be set up. We can see that by going to system preferences, and if you're signed into an Apple ID, you'll see your name at the top, and you can click this Apple ID button to see your account information. You can see, "I am already signed into iCloud," which includes synchronization for mail, contacts, and calendars among other services. And you can see, I have those enabled. If you have this, then you are already set up with one account. I'm going to quit system preferences. And I want to launch the mail application. I have that in the Doc so I'll launch it…

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