User Name

Your user name on the mail server.

Password

Your password on the mail server.

Host Name

The name of the mail server.

Automatically manage connection settings

Mail automatically manages settings for your email account in Mail, such as port numbers and authentication methods.

If you deselect this option, you can specify the following, as directed by your email account provider:

• Port (or Internal Port and External Port), Use TLS/SSL: The port numbers for receiving messages, and whether to use TLS/SSL.

• Authentication: The authentication method. This option is available only for POP and IMAP accounts.

Advanced IMAP or Exchange Settings

Enter or change these settings as directed by your email account provider:

• IMAP Path Prefix: The location of your mailboxes on an IMAP server.

• TLS Certificate: Some mail servers require computers that connect to them to provide a certificate proving their identity.

• Allow insecure authentication: For email accounts that don’t support secure authentication, let Mail use a non-encrypted version of your user name and password to connect to the mail server.

Account

The account of the mail server.

To change outgoing server settings, as directed by your email account provider, click the Account pop-up menu, then choose Edit SMTP Server List.

User Name

Your user name on the mail server.

Password

Your password on the mail server.

Host Name

The name of the mail server.

Automatically manage connection settings

Mail automatically manages settings for your email account in Mail, such as port numbers and authentication methods.

If you deselect this option, you can specify the following, as directed by your email account provider:

• Port (or Internal Port and External Port), Use TLS/SSL: The port numbers for sending messages, and whether to use TLS/SSL.

• Authentication: The authentication method. This option is available only for POP and IMAP accounts.

Reader

• On: Automatically use Safari Reader to display articles on the site without ads or other distractions.

• Off: Don’t use Reader by default on the site. (You can still choose to use Reader for individual articles on the site.)

Content Blockers

• On: Stop ads and other unwanted content from appearing on the site.

• Off: Don’t block ads and other unwanted content on the site.

Auto-Play

• Allow All Auto-Play: All videos on the site can autoplay.

• Stop Media with Sound: Only videos that don’t have audio will autoplay.

• Never Auto-Play: No videos can autoplay.

Page Zoom

Choose a percentage of zoom to make text and images on the site easier to see.

Camera

• Ask: The site must ask if it can use the camera on your Mac.

• Deny: The site can’t use your camera.

• Allow: The site can always use your camera.

Microphone

• Ask: The site must ask if it can use the microphone on your Mac.

• Deny: The site can’t use your microphone.

• Allow: The site can always use your microphone.

Screen Sharing

• Ask: The site must ask if it can use the camera and microphone on your Mac.

• Deny: The site can’t use your camera and microphone.

Location

• Ask: The site must ask if it can use your location.

• Deny: The site can’t use your location.

• Allow: The site can always use your location.

Downloads

• Ask: The site must ask before it starts a download.

• Deny: The site can’t download.

• Allow: The site can always download.

Notifications

• Allow: The site can always send you notifications.

• Deny: The site can’t send you notifications.

• Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications: When you visit a website that can send you notifications, you see a dialog asking if you want to receive them. To stop seeing the dialog, deselect this option.

Pop-up Windows

Block pop-up windows that appear when you open or close a webpage.

• Block and Notify: When you visit the site, Safari displays an icon in the Smart Search field. You can click the icon to display the pop-up windows.

• Block: The site can’t display pop-up windows.

• Allow: The site can display pop-up windows.

WebGL

• Ask: You see a dialog asking whether you want to trust the site’s use of WebGL.

• Block: The site can’t show WebGL content.

• Allow: The site can use WebGL, unless WebGL presents a security risk on your computer.

• Allow Always: The site can use WebGL, even if WebGL presents a critical security risk on your computer. Choosing Allow Always may present a security risk, so only select this option for websites you trust.

The WebGL setting appears only for computers on which WebGL may present a security risk. If the setting doesn’t appear, the site can show WebGL content.

Currently Open Websites

Websites that are open in a window or tab in Safari. You might have previously chosen an option from the pop-up menu for some of these websites.

Configured Websites

The list of websites you’ve customized. If you don’t see Configured Websites, either you haven’t customized a website yet, or you’ve cleared the list.

Remove

Remove the selected website from the list of configured websites.

When visiting other websites

To apply a setting to any website that you haven’t already chosen a setting for, click this pop-up menu, then choose the option you want.

To apply a setting to all websites, make sure no websites are listed under Configured Websites (to clear the list quickly, select the websites, then click Remove). Then click this pop-up menu and choose the option you want.