Related stories. to its free Web e-mail service, Outlook.com. Using IMAP is preferable to POP, because it offers a way to keep your e-mail synchronized when using third-party clients. You can use Outlook.com with Apple's Mail app on OS X, but its new account wizard is preconfigured to use POP whenever you enter 'outlook.com' as your e-mail address.
You can use the mail server settings in this article to manually set up your email app to send and receive email with an iCloud email account. However, you shouldn't need to do that if you meet iCloud system requirements and can use any of these setup methods: Use iCloud Preferences on your Mac in OS X Lion 10.7.4 or later.
Here's how to set up Mail to use IMAP for Outlook.com instead of POP, so you can take advantage of the new IMAP support. Step 1: If you're using two-step verification with your Microsoft account, you need to go to and create an app password to use. If you're not using two-step verification, move on to Step 2. Step 2: Launch the Mail app in OS X and start the add account wizard by going to File Add Account.
If you've never used Mail and you're opening it for the first time, the add account wizard will appear automatically. Step 3: In the address field, enter a bogus e-mail address and leave the password field blank, then click Continue. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 4: For incoming mail server settings, make sure that the account type is set to IMAP, then enter 'imap-mail.outlook.com' as your incoming mail server.
Enter your real Outlook.com e-mail address and password in the username and password fields. Remember to use your app password here if you're using two-step verification. Click Continue to move on to the outgoing mail server settings. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 5: Under outgoing mail server, enter 'smtp-mail.outlook.com.' Check the box to use authentication, then click Continue. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 6: At the account summary page, double-check the mail server settings to make sure that everything has been entered correctly. You'll notice that your e-mail address shows up as the bogus address you entered in Step 2.
We'll go back and fix this after the account's been created. Make sure to uncheck the box next to 'Take account online,' then click Create. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET Step 7: When the Accounts window appears, select the account you just created from the left pane. When your account information appears, replace the bogus e-mail address with your real Outlook.com e-mail address. When you're all done, close the Accounts window and make sure to save your changes. Screenshot by Ed Rhee/CNET.
Overview This document explains how to set up Microsoft Outlook and access your Exchange account. Note Do not use Automatic Configuration as it will configure to connect to U-M Google Mail and not to Exchange. The following configuration instructions are:. Specific to the Exchange Service provided by ITS. Some campus units offer their own services that require different configuration information.
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Based on Outlook 2011 in Snow Leopard. Manual Setup Note Launch Microsoft Outlook 2011 to begin setup. Click Add Account. Click the Exchange Account button. Type your email address, uniqname preceeded by 'UMROOT ', and Exchange password. Uncheck the Configure automatically check box. In the Server box, type exchange.umich.edu.
Click Add Account. In the Account description box, type a name for this account. Determine Mailbox Size. In the left menu, select the mailbox you created for Exchange. In this example, it is Umich.
From the File menu, select Folder and then Folder Properties. Click Storage.