Setting Up Google Apps Email On Outlook For Mac

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  • See Add an email account to Outlook for instructions. Set up Exchange account access using Mac OS X 10.10 or later. If you're running Mac OS X version 10.10 or later, follow these steps to set up an Exchange email account: Open Mail, and then do one of the following: If you've never used Mail to set up an email account, the Welcome to Mail page.
  • Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook is a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007- 2016 that lets you import your current data from your NJIT Google account into Microsoft Outlook and keep using Outlook to access your Webmail by Google mail, contacts, and calendar. With Google Apps Sync, your email is stored both in Webmail by Google (in the cloud) and locally in Microsoft Outlook.

If your organization uses a Google Apps account to handle email and you’re an Outlook 2013 user, it makes a lot of sense to configure that account to send and receive email through Microsoft’s email client.

That way, it’s much easier to never miss an important email and answer it the second it comes in.

Configuring Outlook 2013 to work with your Google Apps email account isn’t too difficult, as long as you follow the steps below exactly.

We use Google Apps here at Guiding Tech, so I’ll use my GT email account to show you how to do it.

Google Apps Email in Outlook 2013

Step 1: Start Outlook 2013 and click File in the top menu of Microsoft’s email client.

Step 2: Make sure Info is selected in the menu on the right side of your Outlook 2013 window (not the Options one you used when enabling the Auto Complete feature).

Step 3: Let’s start configuring your account. In order to start doing this, click the Add account button.

Step 4: I probably don’t need to mention this, but I will anyway: the next step requires you to have your Google Apps email account username and password close by. You’ll need them for it.

Set the configuration process to Manual setup or additional server types and then click the Next button.

Step 5: Select POP or IMAP in the window that comes up, then click Next to proceed to the next step.

Step 6: This is the fun part, the one where you fill in all the settings needed. Worry not, if you do it right, it’s the last time you’ll be required to go through it (at least for this email account).

Start by setting the email account to IMAP, under Server information, like I did in the screenshot you’re seeing below.

Step 7: Next, let’s proceed with the rest of the settings. Input your name and full email address first.

Then, under Incoming mail server, type imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com under Outgoing mail server (SMTP).

Under User Name, type your full email address, then your password in the following field.

Step 8: Before you go on, click the More Settings button on the bottom right side of the window.

Step 9: A new window will appear. Click the Outgoing Server tab; then, tick My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.

Step 10: Switch to the Advanced tab.

Change the Incoming server port to 993 and the Outgoing server one to 465 or 587.

Then, set the encrypted connection type to SSL for IMAP and TLS for for SMTP, like I did below.

When you’re done with all that, click the OK button at the bottom of the window. You can also tweak the setting at the bottom of the window to suit your preferences.

Step 11: You’re back in the previous window; just click the Next button. Your settings will be applied and, if everything’s been set properly, they should work just fine.

Cool Tip: If sending the test message fails, try the other port mentioned above.

Wunderground weather app. Step 12: Click Finish and enjoy using your Google Apps account with Outlook 2013! Screen capture video for mac.

Let us know if you’ve got any tricks up your sleeve that relates to what we’ve talked about in this post.


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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

  • 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.

Outlook On Mac Account Settings

  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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