Outlook Mail For Mac



Mail User Guide

Use the Mail app to send, receive, and manage email for all of your email accounts in one location. Simply add the accounts—such as iCloud, Exchange, Google, school, work, or other—you want to use in Mail.

Add an email account

In the Mail app on your Mac, if the Send button is dimmed in the toolbar of your message, or your message can’t be sent using the outgoing mail server, try these suggestions. Make sure the outgoing (SMTP) mail server is specified as directed by the provider of your email account. Since Outlook.com has supported only POP, until recently, Apple Mail's automatic configuration of email accounts will default to setting up any Outlook.com email address as a POP3 account. First, I have to trick Mail so that it allows us to set up an account manually, allowing us to specify the new details.

  • The first time you open the Mail app on your Mac, it may prompt you to add an account. Select an account type—if you don’t see your type, select Other Mail Account—then enter your account information.

  • If you already added an email account, you can still add more. In Mail, choose Mail > Add Account, select an account type, then enter your account information. Make sure the Mail checkbox is selected for the account.

  • If you’re using an account on your Mac with other apps, such as Contacts or Messages, you can also use that account with Mail. In Mail, choose Mail > Accounts to open Internet Accounts preferences, select the account on the left, then select the Mail checkbox on the right.

Temporarily stop using an email account

  1. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Accounts.

  2. Select the account, then deselect the Mail checkbox.

    Now the account’s messages are not shown in Mail.

To use the account again with Mail, select the Mail checkbox; the account’s messages are shown again (they don’t need to be downloaded from the server again).

Remove an email account

When you remove an email account from Mail, the account’s messages are deleted and no longer available on your Mac. Copies of messages remain on the account’s mail server and are still available (from webmail, for example).

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Important: If you’re unsure whether messages you want to keep are still on the mail server, move or copy them to a mailbox stored on your Mac (the mailbox appears in the On My Mac section in the Mail sidebar) before you delete the account in Mail.

  1. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.

  2. Select an account, then click the Remove button .

    Note: If the account is used by other apps on your Mac, you’re asked to remove the account in Internet Accounts System Preferences. Click the button to open Internet Accounts, then deselect the Mail checkbox for the account. To stop using the account in all apps, make sure the account is selected, then click the Remove button .

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Summary

This article contains information about the compatibility of Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Apple iCloud.

Outlook for Mac does not support Apple iCloud calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) synchronization.

Outlook for Mac does support iCloud Mail. For steps on how to configure your iCloud email account in Outlook for Mac, go to the More Information section of this article.

More information

To configure your Apple iCloud email account in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, follow these steps:

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  1. Start Outlook for Mac.

  2. On the Tools menu, select Accounts.

  3. Select the plus (+) sign in the lower-left corner, and then select Other E-mail.

  4. Enter your E-mail Address and Password, and then select Add Account.

    Note

    The new account will appear in the left navigation pane of the Accounts dialog box. The Server Information may be automatically entered. If not, follow the remaining steps to enter this information manually.

  5. Enter one of the following in the Incoming server box:

    • imap.mail.me.com (for me.com email addresses)
    • mail.mac.com (for mac.com email addresses)
    • imap.mail.me.com (for icloud.com email addresses)

  6. Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Incoming server box.

  7. Enter one of the following in the Outgoing server box:

    • smtp.mail.me.com (for me.com email addresses)
    • smtp.mac.com (for mac.com email addresses)
    • smtp.mail.me.com (for icloud.com email addresses)

  8. Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Outgoing server box.

  9. Select Override default port under the Outgoing server box, and then enter 587 in the Outgoing server port text box.

After you have entered the incoming and outgoing server information, Outlook for Mac will start to receive your email messages.

Note

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You can select Advanced to enter additional settings, such as leaving a copy of each message on the server.