Some third-party email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo, and iCloud, require you to change some settings on their websites before you can add these accounts to Outlook.
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. Outlook supports both POP and IMAP accounts. To learn more about each account type, see POP account basic settings and IMAP account basic settings.
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 |
The latest version of Outlook for Mac makes it a breeze to add email accounts with just a username and password.