Configuring Outlook for Mac 2016 for Office 365 Last modified: June 3, 2016 This page provides instructions on how to configure Outlook 2016 to access your Office 365 account using Exchange.

Microsoft Outlook for Mac Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2011 Mac Using IMAP To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail: • Enable IMAP in Gmail • Sign in to Gmail. • Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings at the top of any Gmail page. • Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP • Select Enable IMAP. • Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.

• Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011. If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. • If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools > Accounts > Add Accountfrom the Apple Menu bar. • Click E-mail Account. • Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following. • Enter your email address, password and user name.

• Select IMAP for type • Incoming server: imap.gmail.com / Either 993 (ssl) or 143 (very infrequently 585 (ssl)) • Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com / Either 25 or 465 (ssl) (very infrequently 2525) • Click Add Account • Click More Options. • Use Incoming server info for Authentication • Click OK If you've entered everything in correctly, task will be completed successfully and you can close out of the window and begin using your account via Outlook 2011 mac.

Import your old POP account into the newly created IMAP account If you currently keep a copy of your mail on the server, then you're done! But if you delete them from the server, then you have to import your old POP mail into your IMAP. Here's how to do it • Click the Tools tab • Click Import • Click Outlook Data File (.pst or.olm), and then click the right arrow to continue.

• Select (.pst) or (.olm) • Browse, your backup (.pst) or (.olm) file to import • Done • Now you can check your back up data on outlook • And the very important thing is you have to disable your old POP account from the Outlook, Otherwise they will continue to receive email in the old POP account. • Go to Account settings • Delete your old pop account Setting up your Sent folder properly • From the Accounts window, select Advanced. • Click Folders. • From the Sent drop-down, select Sent Mail (Server).

Pre-Flight Check • These instructions are intended specifically for setting up a new email account in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac OS X 10.11.3. • If you have not already created an email address on your server, visit our. • If you need to configure your email address in Outlook 2016 for Microsoft Windows, see. For other mail clients, check out our tutorial on. Step #1: Add or Edit the Email Account • To set up a new email account or edit the settings on an existing one, click the Tools menu and then select Accounts to open the Accounts panel.

Note: You cannot edit an existing email account to directly change its connection method. To change an account from POP to IMAP or vice versa, simply add a new account for the email address as described below and select the desired connection type. Outlook 2016 will allow you to have multiple accounts for the same email address, so an account for sample@example.com using IMAP can coexist with an account for sample@example.com using POP.

To prevent data loss, do not delete the existing account before adding a new one. Step #2: Configuring a New Email Account On the account information panel, enter the information as follows. At first, you will only see the E-mail address and Password fields.

Once you enter your email address, Outlook 2016 will recognize that you’re not attempting to connect to a web service such as iCloud, Google, or Yahoo, and will automatically expand the window to reveal all the fields shown in the image above. • E-mail address: requires your complete email address, such as sample@example.com. • Password: is the password associated with the email account. • User Name: is your full email address. It should exactly match what you entered into the E-mail address field above. • Type: you may select IMAP or POP. IMAP is recommended for its ability to sync messages between multiple devices (to learn more about the difference between the protocols, see ). Free java download for mac.