On your Mac, launch Outlook for Mac and then click on the menu “Tools”, followed by “Accounts”, as shown in the figure below:

Add the email profile back to Outlook on Mac but using Modern Authentication.

Remove the email profile from Outlook on Mac.

To ensure that you continue to receive emails on Outlook for Mac, we need perform the following steps: This is discussed in a future blog (soon). Multi-Factor Authentication is not enforced when Microsoft is moving from basic authentication to modern authentication, but it is strongly recommended to start using multi-factor authentication because it reduces the risk of being hacked dramatically.

If your Outlook for Mac stops working somewhere in October because of Microsoft turning off basic authentication, it is just a matter of recreating the profile in Outlook. For use with Exchange Online, the Outlook for Mac client is strongly recommended (and most used). MacOS comes with a native mail client which is not very different compared to the native mail client in iOS for example. The last blog about clients is this one, where we discuss how to reconfigure Outlook for Mac to use Modern Authentication. If your email service requires this, you can specify the path of the root mailbox on the server that contains all your mail folders.In earlier post on this blog we discussed Microsoft turning off basic authentication and what you must do on an iPhone or Android to change to modern authentication. Use this preference to set a server connection schedule. IMAP IDLE eliminates the need for you to run the Send & Receive command for the account. If this preference is available for your email service and you select it, Outlook automatically updates your IMAP folders continuously. Use IMAP IDLE (if the server supports it) Use this preference to set a sync schedule for all IMAP folders. However, when you are offline, you cannot read the message bodies or attachments.Įnable this option to download message headers only for folders other than the Inbox.

Therefore, large messages (and any attachments) are downloaded only if you select them in the message list.

With this preference turned on, only message headers are automatically downloaded to your computer. To access these settings, click Outlook > Preferences > Accounts, select the IMAP account, and then click Advanced.įor information about the primary IMAP account settings, see Basic IMAP account settings for Outlook for Mac. Settings include options for downloading message headers and when to sync and update folders. The following table provides information and tips for entering advanced IMAP settings.

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