Add and use PreVeil in Apple Mail
- Katia Kozak (Unlicensed)
- Phil Rodrigues
Add PreVeil to Apple Mail
Read this if you have already installed PreVeil on your Mac, and you are ready to add PreVeil to Apple Mail.
It is important that once your PreVeil account is activated on your device, you configure your recovery settings. If you don’t have recovery settings configured, and you only have your account on one device and you delete PreVeil, you will permanently lose access to all the data on your account.
1 . To install PreVeil in Apple Mail, click the "Add PreVeil to Apple Mail" button at the end of your PreVeil account creation process...
...or go to the Settings menu at preveil.com/app, and select the Add to Mail Client option.
To get to your PreVeil account settings quickly, click the PreVeil key icon on the top bar of your Mac screen, and select Settings from the drop-down menu.
2. After you select the "Add PreVeil to Apple Mail" option from the Settings menu, this screen displays. Click the "Add PreVeil to Apple Mail" button.
3. The installation into Apple Mail begins, and the following message displays:
4. When the installation is complete, you will find your existing messages, including a Welcome email from PreVeil, in your new PreVeil mailbox in Apple Mail.
If you do not see your new PreVeil Mailbox as illustrated above, click the "Mailboxes" button at the top left of the window to see your Mailboxes. Then click the right arrow next to the Inbox to expand and view all of your Apple Mail inboxes as shown below.
If you have at least one other existing email account in Apple Mail before you install PreVeil, the PreVeil email account will have a special designation of a lock icon in front of it as shown above. If the PreVeil account is your only email account in Apple Mail, it will have no special designation.
Use PreVeil in Apple Mail
Use your new PreVeil mailbox in Apple Mail the same way you would use your regular Apple Mail account.
If you have more than one email account in Apple Mail and you want to send email from your PreVeil account, you must select the PreVeil account in the From field of the Apple Mail new message window. That account is prefixed with (PV) in the email account list.
If you have more than one account/inbox in Apple Mail (an existing account and your new PreVeil account), and you do not see the From field the first time you compose a new message from your PreVeil account, close Apple Mail and reopen it. The "From" field should then be available.
Using your PreVeil email account, send emails to other PreVeil users or non-PreVeil users. You can attach files; link text within the email; and format text just as you do with regular Apple Mail email. All content is encrypted until it reaches the recipient.
Apple Mail also allows you to drag and drop attachments in your emails.
If any of the recipients of your email are not PreVeil users, you will receive the following message, and that recipient is invited to join PreVeil.
