Enter your email address (including and password in the E-mail address filed. Note: The settings shown vary depending on your account type. To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, then click Server Settings. On the Accounts window, choose E-mail Account.ĥ. Use Server Settings preferences in Mail to change options for an account’s incoming and outgoing (SMTP) mail servers. Don’t forget to click Save Changes when you’re done.Ĥ. To set up your Outlook 2011 client to work with Gmail:ġ. Google Apps users, please follow the default instructions unless otherwise noted, replacing ‘your_’ with your actual domain name. The following are the instructions to set up IMAP access in Outlook 2011.
So I was delighted to hear of the release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. Having recently started to use a Mac at home, quickly started to miss Outlook.
Outlook is now set up to send and receive your NMU G Suite gmail either as the default email client or when using the Microsoft Word mail merge feature.By Kieran 0 Configuring Gmail (IMAP) and Outlook for Mac 2011 At the Mail window, change the pulldown menu choice for the “Always use this profile” field to “nmugusite”. Your IMAP account should be displayed in the “Account Settings” window. Once verified click “Close” and “Finish”.ġ7. Click “Next” and your access will be verified. Use your full UMass Boston email address including umb.edu to log in.
This limits how much of your gmail content is kept offline on your computer’s hard drive.ġ6. Log in to Webmail from here, and get information on the Office 365 email service. Select Done to start using Outlook 2016 for Mac.
Change the “Mail to keep offline:” cache slide control to “3 months” or “6 months”. Have you already added your Gmail account to Outlook then see, Improved authentication for existing Gmail users. Set the second “Use the following type of encrypted connection:” to “TLS”. Set the “Outgoing server (SMTP):” to port “587”. The “Incoming server (IMAP):” should default to port “993”. Click the “Advanced” tab and set “Use the following type of encrypted connection:” to “SSL”. Check the “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” check box and “Use same settings as my incoming server” button.ġ4. Fill in fields as in the example below set the Account Type: “IMAP”, Incoming mail server: “”, Outgoing mail server (SMTP): “, User Name: Password: your NMU password or the App Password created earlier if using Google 2-step-verification.
Click the “POP or IMAP” option and click “Next”.ġ2. This folder is automatically subscribed to your IMAP account expand the Gmail folder to find the Sent folder. Click the “Manual setup or additional server types” button and click “Next”.ġ1. In Outlook 2013 (and newer), Gmail uses the Sent folder on the server. In the profile name field type “nmugsuite” and click “OK”.ġ0.
To set up Outlook go to the Windows start menu enter “Control Panel” in the search field and select “Control Panel” from the results.ĩ. This is a unique password you will later need to enter into the Outlook settings.Ĥ. In addition, if you are using Google 2-step-verification you may need to set up a unique Google app password that will be used with Outlook. You will need to allow less secure apps to use your account by changing a gmail setting available here.ģ. See “Read Gmail messages on other email clients using IMAP”.Ģ. Before you set up Outlook you need to assure IMAP access has been turned on in your gmail settings. When I remoted I immediately realized they were OAuth2 windows, but I cant recall seeing anything on the Office 365 Message Center about this feature being added. Any messages sent will show up in your "Sent" label associated with the gmail account and when your gmail account is accessed from browsers and other devices.ġ. This morning one of my users reported that his Windows Outlook was asking for passwords for a couple of Gmail accounts that had been set up with IMAP app passwords. This is true even if you set up gmail as your default email client.Īdding a gmail account to Outlook using IMAP will give you access to your gmail messages and labels but not your Google calendar or contacts.
The “Send To, Mail recipient” feature in Windows and the Microsoft Word mail merge to email feature will not work unless Outlook is setup to use your NMU G Suite gmail account via IMAP using the instructions referenced on this page or the instructions for Setting up Outlook to send mail using the NMU Mail Gateway. Microsoft Windows uses Outlook as the default email client.