Outlook for Mac 2011 Outlook for Mac can automatically set up accounts from many popular email service providers such as Outlook.com (previously known as Hotmail), AOL, Gmail, MobileMe, and Yahoo. If Outlook can't set up an account automatically, you can configure it manually. When setting up manually, you’ll need additional information about your account, for instance the account type and addresses of mail servers.
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Outlook supports both POP and IMAP accounts. To learn more about each account type, see. Set up an Exchange account.
When you use Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac in a Microsoft Office 365 environment, your email server settings aren't automatically set up for Microsoft Exchange Online. CAUSE This issue occurs if one of the following conditions is true.
Open Outlook for Mac 2011. On the Tools menu, click Accounts. If this is the first account you're creating in Outlook 2011, under Add an Account, click Exchange Account. If you've previously created an email account for a different email address, in the lower corner of the Accounts dialog box, click, and then click Exchange.
On the Enter your Exchange account information page, type your email address. Under Authentication, make sure User Name and Password is selected. In the User name box, type your complete email address.
In the Password box, type your password. Make sure Configure automatically is selected, and then click Add Account. After you click Add Account, Outlook will perform an online search to find your email server settings. In the dialog box that asks if you want to allow the server to configure your settings, select the Always use my response for this server check box, and then click Allow. If Outlook is able to set up your account, you'll see the account you set up in the Accounts dialog box. Close the Accounts dialog box.
If Outlook isn't able to set up your account, see the next section in this article. Add more email accounts. On the Tools menu, click Accounts. In the lower-left corner of the Accounts dialog box, click Add, and then click E-mail. Enter your email address and password, and then click Add Account.
If the Add Account button is unavailable. Enter the information about your account, including the following required fields: User name, Type, Incoming server, and Outgoing server. If your email service requires Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for either the incoming or outgoing server, select the Use SSL to connect check box for that server. Use the information from table below for Outlook.com accounts: Fields POP IMAP Incoming server pop3.live.com imap-mail.outlook.
Com Port for the incoming server 995 993 Outgoing server smtp.live.com smtp-mail.outlook.com Port for the outgoing server 587 587 When the process of adding the account is complete, the account appears in the left pane of the Accounts dialog box, and Outlook begins downloading your messages. Notes:. Your email service provider may require you to enable POP or IMAP access through its Web site before you can use the account in Outlook. If you add a POP account and another type of account, messages from the POP account appear in the Inbox under On My Computer in the folder list. With POP and IMAP email accounts, email messages are the only items that are synchronized between Outlook and the mail server.
Other items that you create in Outlook — such as contacts, calendar events, tasks, and notes — are stored on your computer, not on the mail server. To delete an account, in the left pane of the Accounts dialog box, select an account, and then click Delete. When you delete a POP account, existing messages from that account remain in Outlook, but no further messages are downloaded or sent. When you delete an IMAP account, all messages from that account are deleted from Outlook, but any copies of messages that you have on the server remain there. Items other than messages, such as contacts and events, are not affected when you delete a POP or IMAP account. Try the latest version of Outlook The latest version of Outlook for Mac makes it a breeze to add email accounts with just a username and password.
Step One: Prepare Your Gmail Account Before you connect your Gmail account to Outlook, you must prepare your Gmail account so that it’s ready for the connection. Start by heading to the in your desktop browser and signing in. You can’t do this in the mobile apps. Click the gear icon in the top right corner. Choose “Settings” from the dropdown menu.
Switch over to the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. In the “IMAP Access” section, select the “Enable IMAP” option.
And then click the “Save Changes” button. That’s all you have to on the Gmail end of things. Now, it’s time to connect your Gmail account to Outlook.
Step Two: Connect Outlook To Your Gmail Account After setting Gmail up to allow IMAP connections, Outlook makes it very easy to add your Gmail account. In Outlook, open the “File” menu. Click the “Account Settings” button.
On the dropdown menu, click the “Account Settings” option. In the Account Settings window menu, click “New” Type in your Gmail address and click “Connect”. Type in the password for your Gmail account and then click “Connect”. Note: If you use (and you really should), then you’ll need to set up a for Outlook to connect to your Gmail account (check out that page for several troubleshooting tips for connecting Outlook to Gmail). If you don’t use two-factor authentication, and Outlook won’t connect to your Gmail account after entering your regular password, then you’ll likely need to change a setting that allows less secure apps to connect to your Google account. Wait for your account setup to complete.
Unless you want to set up Outlook Mobile on your phone, too, you can deselect that option, and then click the “OK” button. You should see your Gmail account added to your Outlook Account Manager menu.
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You can go ahead and close that window. And now you can use your Gmail account right inside Microsoft Outlook.