#Setup outlook 2016 mac for gmail how to#

“Your name” is the display name that will be presented to the recipient.

On the next screen choose “POP or IMAP” and then press “Next”.

On the account Setup screen, select “Manual setup or additional server types”.

If you see the above screen, follow these instructions to disable simple account creation.

Recent versions of Outlook 2016 may show a “Simplified Account Creation Screen”, which makes this process much more difficult:.

This will bring up the list of your accounts, click new:.Click the “Account settings” button and choose “Account Settings”: Go to “File” and then “Account Settings”.Setup Outlook 2016 to send from an email alias Before proceeding ensure you have added the alias that you want to send from to your Office 365 account. I expect your settings will be the same as mine, which means your Office 365 SMTP Server will be. This will show you the settings you need for POP, IMAP and SMTP access.In the search box at the top of the settings window, type in “pop”:.Click the settings cog in the top right corner.

#Setup outlook 2016 mac for gmail how to#

See these instructions for how to add an alias with Powershell.īefore you can proceed, you need to find your SMTP settings: To do this, login to Outlook Web App, click on the little cog in the top right of the screen to bring up the options menu and click on options. It would be better if the ability to send as an alias was native to Outlook/Office 365, but it isn’t. The idea behind this method is to setup a second account in Outlook that will allow sending from an alias that has been defined in Office 365.

How to setup Outlook to send from an alias in Office 365 This will give you the ability to select the alias using the “From” button when composing a new email. There are two workarounds to this, the first is to use a distribution group and assign users permissions to send from that distribution group. The second, which is the method documented in this post is to set-up a second mail account within Outlook and use the account to send mail via the Office 365 SMTP servers. Although it is possible to assign many email aliases to a single account in Office 365 it is not easy to send as an alias using Outlook when composing a new email.