How do i set up Mail to receive from an internet account?

Hello Tymon.

I checked Wanadoo's website and it appears you can create your Wanadoo account in Mail and with other email clients as a POP type account.

Wanadoo provides instructions for doing so using Windows Outlook Express but the required account settings are the same to create the account with the Mail.app such as:

At the Mail.app menu bar, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts. Select the + sign at the bottom of the accounts window to add a new email account selecting POP as the account type.

Account Description: Whatever you prefer such as Wanadoo.

Email Address Field: Enter your Wanadoo email address.

Full Name: Whatever you prefer which will be shown next to your email address when a message is received.

User Name: This should include everything after the '@' symbol for your Wanadoo email address. Note: If you use their Broadband service, do not include '@fs' at the end of your Username for email.

Password: Your Wanadoo account password.

Incoming Mail Server: pop.wanadoo.co.uk

Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.wanadoo.co.uk

This should be all you need.

If your email address includes Freeserve instead of xxxxxx.wanadoo.co.uk, the incoming and outgoing mail servers are different.

Check this link.

http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/email/freeservesettings.htm

Do you have Broadband or Dial-up access and did you register with Wanadoo or Freeserve?

I'm sure you already checked and tried this but the email account settings are as follows:

Username

Your email username will be in one of the following formats:

yourname.wanadoo.co.uk
yourname.freeserve.co.uk
yourname.fsnet.co.uk
yourname.fsbusiness.co.uk
yourname.fslife.co.uk
yourname.fsworld.co.uk

You chose the 'yourname' segment when you registered with Wanadoo or Freeserve.

Email address

Your email address is your choice of name, followed by the '@' sign and your email username, eg mail@yourname.wanadoo.co.uk

You can use as many email addresses before the '@' sign as you like, eg bob@yourname.wanadoo.co.uk, lis@yourname.wanadoo.co.uk and paul@yourname.wanadoo.co.uk.

Server settings

The address of the Wanadoo POP mail server is: pop.wanadoo.co.uk

The address of the Wanadoo SMTP mail server is: smtp.wanadoo.co.uk

Do not use Secure Password Authentication to access mail

'Trying to log into the SMTP server
“smtp.wanadoo.co.uk” has failed. Please make
sure the username and password are correct. If
you continue, you may not be able to receive any email'

The incoming mail server is:

pop.wanadoo.co.uk

The outgoing or SMTP server is:

smtp.wanadoo.co.uk

If you are getting this error message, it appears you entered the outgoing mail server for the incoming mail server.