Outlook for Mac is adding several highly requested features for Office 365 customers, including the ability to send an email at the time of your choice and request delivery notifications and read receipts. These additions deliver on four of our top 10 requested features, and are designed to help you get more done quickly and stay in control of the day ahead. A big part of our prioritization of new features and enhancements comes from the votes and feedback we receive from you at our site, and the input we get from our.
We thank you all for your feedback and are excited to hear what you think of our new additions! Here’s a look at what’s new. Send your emails when you want The best time to write an email and the best time to send an email may not always align. With our new Send Later feature, you can write an email now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time. Once you are done drafting your email, click the drop-down next to Send and then select Send Later. Choose the date and time to send the email and the message is saved to your Drafts folder. When the scheduled time comes, the email is automatically sent—you don’t even need to have Outlook or your computer open!
Outlook 2016 supports Autodiscover; it automatically configures the server settings using just your email address and password. It's that easy! On the Add Account screen, enter your email address in the first field. Step #1: Add or Edit the Email Account. Setting up your first email account: If this is your first time setting up Outlook 2016, you will need to click on the envelope icon next to the third option: Other Email (iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, or other accounts): Setting up an additional email account: Once any email account has been set up in Outlook.
This feature is available to Office Insider Fast users today and coming to Office 365 subscribers in July. For more details, see Use read and delivery receipts to track your emails Sometimes you need to be notified that an important email has been delivered to and read by your recipient. Outlook for Mac now supports both read and delivery receipts. A delivery receipt confirms delivery of your email message to the recipient’s mailbox, but not that the recipient has seen it or read it. A read receipt confirms that your message was opened.
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In Outlook for Mac, the message recipient can decline to send read receipts. For more details, see. Spend less time writing emails Sending the same email over and over again? Email templates are great for sending messages that include information that infrequently changes from message to message. Compose and save a message as a template and then reuse it when you want it.
New information can be added before the template is sent as an email message. For more details, see Stay on top of your day by creating calendar events and tasks from emails Emails contain the important information you need to get things done throughout the day. Often, however, those tasks need to be scheduled as part of your day to get completed on time. You can now drag and drop emails directly to your calendar to reserve that time. The subject of the email becomes the calendar subject, and the body of the email goes in the notes field. For those of you who are task users, you can do the same thing. Drag the email to your task view to create new items.
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Improving the account setup experience We’ve simplified the Add Account experience in Outlook for Mac. Previously, you needed to know details about what type of account you have (e.g., Office 365 or Exchange, IMAP or POP). Now you can simply enter your email address and Outlook detects your account settings and guides you through the process. And if you’ve signed in to other Office apps before launching Outlook for the first time, you will be asked if you want to add that account automatically. For more details, see. How do I get all these new improvements?
The Send Later feature is available to Office Insider Fast users today on version 15.36 (170606) and will be available to all Office 365 subscribers in July. The Request a Delivery and Read receipts, email templates, and creating calendar events and tasks from emails additions are available today to all Office 365 subscribers on version 15.35 (170610). The improved account setup experience is available to all Outlook Mac users on version 15.34 (170515). Let us know what you think of our additions! If you have other ideas for what would make Outlook for Mac even better for you, let us know on our site. —The Outlook team Categories. Get started with Office 365 It’s the Office you know, plus tools to help you work better together, so you can get more done—anytime, anywhere.
How To Set Up Email In Outlook 2016 For Mac OS This is a Lunarpages video tutorial covering “How to setup your email account in Mac Mail for MacOS Sierra.” So let’s get started. First, select and open the Mac Mail application. Next, you will select Outlook, then Preferences. Then select Accounts. You will now see Welcome to Outlook, Add Email Account.
Select Add Email Account. Here you will enter your email address and continue. In the upper right corner, you will see a link labeled “Not Exchange?”, select it. Now you will choose the provider for your email address, select IMAP/POP.
On the IMAP/POP window, you will enter the following information in each field: Type = IMAP Email Address = your email address Username = your email address Password = enter password assigned to email address Incoming Server = mail.yourdomain.com (in this example: mail.traininglp.com) Incoming Port = 993 Use SSL to connect = check the box Outgoing Server = mail.yourdomain.com (in this example: mail.traininglp.com) Outgoing Port = 465 Use SSL to connect = check the box Click Add Account. Note: There is an option to use non-secure connection, however is not recommended. Your settings for non-secure connection would be: Type = IMAP Email Address = your email address Username = your email address Password = enter password assigned to email address Incoming Server = mail.yourdomain.com (in this example: mail.traininglp.com) Incoming Port = 143 Use SSL to connect = do not check Outgoing Server = mail.yourdomain.com (in this example: mail.traininglp.com) Outgoing Port = 587 Use SSL to connect = do not check Click Add Account. Your email account has been added to your Outlook 2016 for Mac. Common Reasons why the setup process failed. Thank you for taking the time to watch this Lunarpages tutorial and we hope it has been helpful and informational.