These instructions apply to Apple Mail running on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10. See Configure Apple Mail for Office 365 if your version is OS X 10.11 or later.
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You can configure the Mail app to connect to your email and calendar events on the Office 365 server.
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IMPORTANT: After configuring Apple Mail, be sure to change the Trash setting to never permanently erase messages. Otherwise, you won't be able to restore deleted messages.
- Launch Mail. (Click the icon in the dock or go to the Applications folder to open it.)
- Add a mail account:
- If you have not previously configured an account in Mail you will be prompted to add an account. Click Exchange and then click Continue.
- Otherwise, go to the Mail menu and click Add Account > Exchange and then click Continue.
- Enter the following information and then click Continue when done:
- Full Name: the name you want displayed on your outgoing mail
- Email Address: sunetid@stanford.edu (do not use an email alias)
- Password: stanford (do not enter your SUNet ID password here)
- A message displays staying that you couldn't log on to the Exchange server. Click Continue.
- In the Account Settings window, enter the following information and then click Continue.
- Description: enter a name for this account if you wish
- User Name: your SUNet ID@stanford.edu
- Password: your SUNet ID password
- Server Address: outlook.office365.com
- The Account Summary displays. Click Continue.
- Select the apps you want to use with this account and then click Done.
Recommended setting
Office 365 accounts are not backed up. However, Outlook on the web and some desktop versions of Outlook let you recover deleted items that are no longer visible in the Deleted Items folder.
In Apple Mail you can set how long to keep messages in the Trash folder. Once a message is permanently erased in Apple Mail it cannot be recovered from the Deleted Items folder in Outlook on the web. We recommend setting Apple Mail to never permanently erase deleted messages.
- In the Mail menu, click Preferences.
- In the Accounts pane, click the Mailbox Behaviors tab.
- In the Trash section, choose the following settings:
- Store deleted messages on server: checked
- Permanently erase deleted messages: Never
If you try to start up your Mac from a hard disk, network volume, or Time Machine backup that contains an incompatible version or build of macOS, you might experience one or more of these symptoms:
- Your Mac doesn't finish starting up, or displays a prohibitory symbol at startup.
- You see a message that you're using an unsupported or incorrect version of the Mac operating system.
- Your Mac doesn't respond to your trackpad, mouse, or keyboard.
- Apps unexpectedly quit.
- Your Mac doesn't sleep or wake.
- You don't hear any sound from your Mac.
- The fans in your Mac are louder, because they're spinning faster.
- The image on your display appears to shrink, has black bars around it, or appears tinted.
- You can't use Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
Which Mac operating systems are compatible?
The version of macOS that came with your Mac is the earliest version compatible with that Mac. To find out whether your Mac is compatible with a later version of macOS, check the system requirements:
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If your Mac won't start up from a compatible version of macOS, it might require a specific build of that version. To get the correct build, reinstall macOS or upgrade to a later version of macOS.
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- To restore a Time Machine backup that was created on a different Mac, use Migration Assistant.