# Configuring Business Email on macOS

> Set up Mail, Contacts and Calendar on macOS to access your Business Email account and keep everything in sync.

Source: https://helpcenter.ruachost.com/email/business-email/how-to-configure-on-macos-operating-system/

This guide shows how to configure the Mail, Contacts, and Calendar application in Mac OS to access the email, address book, and calendar services of Ruachost Business Email.

This way, your mail, address book, and calendars on Webmail will always be in synced on Mac OS as well. New contacts or events created in Webmail will also appear on Mac OS and vice versa.

## Email configuration

To configure a Ruachost Business Email email account on Apple Mail, you need to use the POP or IMAP protocols for receiving messages and SMTP for sending.

- Open **System Preferences**;
- Click on **Internet accounts**;
- In the list of configurable accounts select **Add Other Account ...**;
- Click on **Mail account**.

A window will pop up on the screen. Enter the following information:

- Name: Name displayed in the sender field;
- Email address: email address to be configured;
- Password: The password of your email account.

Once the fields have been filled in, click **Sign in**, and fill in the rest of the items relating to the mail server.

- Account type: **IMAP** or **POP**;
- Incoming mail server: **imap.emailpnl.com**;
- Outgoing mail server: **smtp.emailpnl.com**.

Click on **Sign in** to confirm the entered data and make sure that both Mail and Notes are ticked in the next window. Finally, click on **Finish.**

Now, the Apple Mail client should begin to download the messages from your configured account.

## Address book configuration

To synchronize and share the address books on Ruachost Business Email, follow steps as shown below:

- Open the **System Preferences**;
- Select **Internet account**;
- In the list that will appear on the screen, select **Add another account ...**;
- Click on **CardDAV Account**;
- In the window that will open on the screen, go to **Account type** and select **Advanced**.

In this screen, you must enter the data relating to the account to be configured and the server address to connect to.

- Username: **the account email address**;
- Password: **the account password**;
- Server address: **dav.emailpnl.com**;
- Server path: **/SOGo/dav/[account email address]**;
- Port: **443**, select the option **Use SSL**.

After filling in each aspect, click **Sign in**.

After completing this procedure, the screen window will close and the account will appear in the list of user accounts available on MacOS.

By opening the **Contacts** application, a section related to the account just added will appear in the side menu, with all contacts from Ruachost Business Email.

## Calendar configuration

To synchronize and share the calendars on Ruachost Business Email, follow the steps below:

- Open the **System Preferences**;
- Select **Internet account**;
- In the list that will appear on the screen, select **Add another account ...**;
- Click on **CalDAV Account**;
- In the window that will open on the screen, go to **Account type** and select **Advanced**.

In this screen, you must enter the data relating to the account that neets to be configured and the address of the server to connect to.

- Username: **the account email address**;
- Password: **the account password**;
- Server address: **dav.emailpnl.com**;
- Server path: **/SOGo/dav/[account email address]**;
- Port: **443**, select the option **Use SSL**.

Once all fields are filled, click **Sign in**.

Once the procedure is complete, the screen window will close and your calendar account will appear in the list of the various user accounts on MacOS.

By opening the **Calendar** application, the section related to the account just added will appear in the side menu, showing all calendars in Ruachost Business Email.

## Subscribed calendars configuration

If you have subscribed to a calendar created by another user from Webmail and, after having performed the synchronization described in the previous point, you do not see it in the Mac Calendar App, follow the steps below:

- In the Mac Calendar App, click Calendar > Settings, then select Accounts.
- Select the Ruachost Business Email account, then click Delegation.
- You will see the list of calendar accounts you have access to: to be able to see a delegated account's calendar, select "Show" .