- Outlook for Mac 2011 caches your mail items in an identity in your home folder at the following location: /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities Like Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2008, Outlook 2016 for Mac and Outlook for Mac 2011 are intended to be purely locally cached mail clients.
- Outlook for Mac is in Offline Mode Resolution. If Outlook for Mac is offline then, you cannot send.
Outlook understands W3C standard calendar events in the.ics file format, as does Apple Mail, so you can import calendar events as follows: In Apple iCal, choose File→Export. Name your exported file, choose a location that you can easily remember, and then click the Export button. In Outlook, press Command-2 to display the Outlook Calendar. Start Outlook 2011 for Mac. Go to Outlook Preferences in the menu bar.; Under Personal settings, click Accounts.; Select Other email as the account type.; Now enter your email address and the corresponding password.As soon as you have entered both, more input fields will be displayed. Enter your user name (the full email address), select an account type (IMAP is recommended), enter the. The best Mac email app for productivity: Outlook. It should come as no surprise that Outlook takes the crown for productivity. Microsoft’s stalwart email app has long been a favorite of business.
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Summary
This article contains information about the compatibility of Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Apple iCloud.
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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:
- Start Outlook for Mac.
- On the Tools menu, select Accounts.
- Select the plus (+) sign in the lower-left corner, and then select Other E-mail.
- Enter your E-mail Address and Password, and then select Add Account.NoteThe 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.
- Enter one of the following in the Incoming server box:
imap.mail.me.com
(forme.com
email addresses)mail.mac.com
(formac.com
email addresses)imap.mail.me.com
(foricloud.com
email addresses)
- Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Incoming server box.
- Enter one of the following in the Outgoing server box:
smtp.mail.me.com
(forme.com
email addresses)smtp.mac.com
(formac.com
email addresses)smtp.mail.me.com
(foricloud.com
email addresses)
- Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Outgoing server box.
- Select Override default port under the Outgoing server box, and then enter 587 in the Outgoing server port text box.
Outlook 2011 For Mac Or Mail Signature
After you have entered the incoming and outgoing server information, Outlook for Mac will start to receive your email messages.
Note
You can select Advanced to enter additional settings, such as leaving a copy of each message on the server.
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We do not recommend that you change the default location of your Profile folder for Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, or your Identity folder for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 to an external hard disk or to a network. Additionally, using a mail identity or profile that is located on an external hard disk or on a network is not supported in either version of Outlook for Mac.
More information
Outlook 2016 for Mac caches your mail items in a profile in your home folder at the following location:
~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles
Outlook for Mac 2011 caches your mail items in an identity in your home folder at the following location:
Outlook 2011 Mac Mail Export
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2011 Identities
Outlook 2011 For Mac Help
Like Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2008, Outlook 2016 for Mac and Outlook for Mac 2011 are intended to be purely locally cached mail clients. Changing the location or using a mail identity that is located on an external hard disk or a network is not supported.