Com-Link

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Com-Link is an ISP located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founded over 10 years ago, Com-Link has provided dialup, DSL, T1s, web hosting, co-location, email hosting and more to the residents of eastern Iowa.

Please contact us at (319) 665-6555
if you have any questions for us.

Com-Link is working towards providing high speed internet access to those areas without any high speed options. Please contact us if your area is in need of high speed!

Tutorials

Setup Instructions for Mac OS X: Mac Mail

Mac Mail

• Open up Mac Mail.
  
  
• Click the 'Mail' Menu, and choose 'Preferences'.
  
  
• The Mail Setup window may appear if you have no accounts setup. If so, you can skip the next few steps.
  
  
• Click the Accounts icon in the Mail Preferences window.
  
  
• Click Create Account.
  
  
• Choose the account type to be 'POP' from the menu.
  
  
• It will ask for a Description. Type any name you'd like to use to identify the account.
  
  
• Please fill out the rest of the information. We've included the necessary below:
  
  
• Your Email address
  
  
• incoming mail server: mail.yourdomainhere**.com
  **Replace this with your email address domain. For example, your email address is Judy@linkiowa.com, your mail servers are mail.linkiowa.com. Similarly for Judy@pcsis.net, your mail servers are mail.pcsis.net.
  
  
• outgoing mail server: mail.yourdomainhere**.com
  **Replace this with your email address domain. For example, your email address is Judy@linkiowa.com, your mail servers are mail.linkiowa.com. Similarly for Judy@pcsis.net, your mail servers are mail.pcsis.net.
  
  
• When asked for your Account name and password, enter your full email address as your account name, and then your password.
  The box labeled 'Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) should not be checked.
  
  
• Click 'Finish' when you are done.
  
  
• There is ONE more step. Please click the 'Mail' Menu again. Choose 'Preferences'.
  
  
• Find the account you just created under Description. Click this account, so it is highlighted, and then click the 'Edit' button.
  
  
• Toward the bottom, click the list for Outoing Mail Server. Choose 'Add' server, if none is listed, or edit the current server.
  
  
• Make sure the outgoing mail server is mail.yourdomainname**.com (see note above), server port is 25, do NOT use Secure Sockets Layer, Authentication option is set to 'PASSWORD'. Enter your email address as the username and retype your password.
  
  
• Click OK out of all windows. You are setup!
  
  
• To ensure that your mail program will automatically check for new mail, click the 'Mail' menu, and choose 'Preferences'. In this new window, there is a drop-down list for 'Check for new mail:'. Set this to your preferred method.
  
  
  
• To check mail manually, click the menu 'Mailbox', and choose 'Get New Mail'

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