Step 3 of the Set up my Office 365 account series. Add your Office 365 email to Outlook for Mac. You'll then be ready to send and receive business emails. Watch a short video of this task farther down the page. To setup an Exchange (EWS) account within Outlook for Mac, follow the steps below: Open your version of Outlook for Mac. Within Outlook, select Preferences.Within the Accounts window, select the Exchange icon or the + in the lower left corner of the accounts pane and to select Exchange as the account type you wish to configure. This affects ALL version of Outlook for Mac (2011, 365, and 2016) if the Exchange Server is configured for STRICT mode. Instead, the Exchange Server must be configured for COMPATIBLE mode for Outlook for Mac users to keep on working. Our assigned Comcast Hosted Exchange server (Exchange 2010) is part of server cluser 'w14d'. The following instructions step through the process of configuring your Office 365 Exchange Online account with Outlook 2016 for macOS. Office 365 - Outlook for Mac Exchange Configuration Office of Information Technology.
Learn how to forward email from Outlook for Mac 2016 using the instructions below.
How to forward email from Outlook for Mac
- Open Outlook for Mac and click the Home tab.
- Click Rules (located near the center).
- Select Edit Rules from the drop down menu.
- Be sure that your mailbox is selected on the left under Server Rules then select the plus (+) sign near bottom to add a rule.
- Change the rule name to Forward Email.
- Change the From drop down, located under the When a new message arrives that meets all these conditions: to All Messages.
See image below for steps 6 - 10. - Under the Do the following heading change Move to Folder to Redirect to.
- Type the email address you would like to forward to in the field.
- Ensure that the boxes are checked for:
- Do not apply other rules to messages that meet the same conditions
- Enabled
- Click OK.
Outlook 2013 Exchange Online
The rule should be listed with the box checked in the Rules window. Click the red dot in the upper left to finish.
Outlook For Mac Exchange Setup
University Information Technology
Outlook Exchange Online
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Configure Outlook For Mac Exchange
UIT Service Desk
Tel: 406-994-1777
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Vice President for IT & CIO:
Access My Exchange Email
Michael Trotter
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