- Outlook for Mac does support iCloud Mail. For steps on how to configure your iCloud email account in Outlook for Mac, go to the More Information section of this article. More information. To configure your Apple iCloud email account in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, follow these steps: Start Outlook for Mac. On the Tools menu, select Accounts.
- Find the information you need to import to or exporting from Outlook, whether you're using Office 365, Outlook 2016, or a Mac.
Outlook helps you show up prepared to your meetings by suggesting emails and files that are relevant to the event or attendees. 3-day Calendar view. Updates to the calendar gives you extra flexibility with a 3-day view to more clearly see meetings and events if you have a full schedule. Features not yet available in the new Outlook for Mac.
Many user often asks – How do I download emails from Office 365 webmail account to PST on local drive ? The reason behind this question is the protection of O365 mailbox from Online threats. Therefore, most of the users want to download all emails from Office 365 mailbox & preserve into the local machine for future concern. It will also help to export PST to O365 into catastrophic situation.
If you also want to backup all Office 365 emails in such formats which are easily accessible in offline environment, then you need to download Office 365 mailbox as PST (which is accessible into Outlook), EML (which accessible into Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail and so on)
Downloading Office 365 Emails in Local System – Why it is Necessary
Downloading Office 365 emails & other data such as Calendars & Contacts is necessary for protecting important data from unexpected disaster. In order of data protection, we protecting digital data in databases or we create the replica of data in multiple different data center. It means if one copy of data is not accessible then, we can use the other copy of data. Thus without any data loss, we can continue our work.
Entire data of Office 365 are stored in the cloud which is managed & maintained by Microsoft Corporation, but Microsoft doesn’t provide any in-built Office 365 solution for regular backup & recovery. So, in this case, Office 365 administrators need to download Office 365 mailbox data into the local machine to make backup. If there any need to access Office 365 data into locally then we recommend download Office 365 emails into PST,EML formats.
Now, the question arises – how to download emails data from Office 365 account? So, there are two workarounds for the same. The very first method is to download Office 365 emails by eDiscovery PST Export Tool. And second solution is to useOffice 365 Mailbox Backup Software.
How to Download Office 365 Mailbox?
Save Office 365 mails data into local machine by exporting Office 365 mail data to PST file, it seems difficult to download Office 365 data with this option, but in this way, you can access Office 365 emails & attachments, contacts, calendars into Microsoft Outlook email application. Now, we will provide you two solutions to download Office 365 emails to the local machine.
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Solution 1: Download Office 365 Mailbox to PST using eDiscovery Tool
In this solution you have to follow all the given steps, it will help you to download Office 365 mailbox (Exchange online, Outlook Online) & preserve into PST file.
Step 1: Login into Office 365 portal & access Office 365 Admin center.
Step 2: In Admin Center, Expand this section & click Security & Compliance.
Step 3: Now go to Permission and edit the eDiscovery Manager role group.
Step 4: In the eDiscovery Manager role group properties, add the account to the eDiscovery Administrator.
Step 5: Now go to Search & Investigation then content search.
Step 6: Now Click + New Search.
Step 7: In this Search Window, you can specify mailbox which you want to download. It provides two options 1: All Location – this option search mailbox from all locations, 2: Specific location and Modify – this option allows to export data from all mailboxes.
Step 8: In this Window, select Exchange email.
Step 9: It also provides multiple filter options to download selected data in PST file. Filtering options are –
- Keywords
- Time Based Filter
- To, From, Cc, Bcc fields.. etc
Step 10: If you want to export data without any condition, then give the mailbox name & description then Click on Save button.
Step 11: Now, go to content Search Window & select your search.
Step 12: Now, Search has been completed, click on More and Export result.
Step 13: Export Result window appear on your screen, in this window you can see multiple output options. Select the option & then click on the Export button.
Step 14: Now export start, Click Export tab & select your search to see its progress.
Step 15: Click Download result & in Export key, copy the export key it will require in ClickOnce application.
Step 16: Click on the application known as eDiscovery export tool will start paste export key and browse the location & click on the start button.
After successfully downloading Office 365 mailbox to PST file, delete eDiscovery search from the content search window.
Solution 2: Automated Tool to Download Emails From Office 365 Webmail
We suggest Office 365 Backup & Restore tool as a automated solution to create a local offline copy of Office 365 mailbox. This tool will let you download all Office 365 emails, contacts, calendars, documents in the local machine in the scheduled manner. It provides multiple file formats (PST, EML) to save Office 365 data. This tool not only downloads Office 365 mailbox in local machine moreover it allows you to access this data into Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail..etc email clients.
If you want to know how software download Office 365 mailbox in local system or you curious about how to save Office 365 data with this software then follow the given steps –
First Download the software –
- Install & run this software, then click on the login button.
- Now, entire Office 365 user credential, click Sign in.
- Select Backup option to download Office 365 mailbox.
- Now select the items which you want to download into local machine.
- After that, the software provides you with multiple options such as file format to save Office 365 data in local machine, Filter option. After selecting option click Start to download Office 365 mailbox data (emails, contacts, calendars..etc).
- Now software starts the downloading process.
In this entire write up we provide multiple methods to download Office 365 emails, contacts, calendars, etc into local machine, so you do not worry about Office 365 data as the give solution will help you to preserve Office 365 mailbox in local machine.
Both given solution will help you to save Office 365 mailbox into local machine, but eDescovery Tool requires technical knowledge and you have to follow complicated steps to download Office 365 emails, attachments & other items. Other hands Automated tool simplify the whole procedure & provides quite a simple solution to download Office 365 mailbox data.
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Summary
This article contains information about the compatibility of Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Apple iCloud.
Outlook for Mac does not support Apple iCloud calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) synchronization.
Outlook for Mac does support iCloud Mail. For steps on how to configure your iCloud email account in Outlook for Mac, go to the More Information section of this article.
More information
To configure your Apple iCloud email account in Microsoft Outlook for Mac, follow these steps:
Start Outlook for Mac.
On the Tools menu, select Accounts.
Select the plus (+) sign in the lower-left corner, and then select Other E-mail.
Enter your E-mail Address and Password, and then select Add Account.
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The new account will appear in the left navigation pane of the Accounts dialog box. The Server Information may be automatically entered. If not, follow the remaining steps to enter this information manually.
Enter one of the following in the Incoming server box:
imap.mail.me.com(forme.comemail addresses)mail.mac.com(formac.comemail addresses)imap.mail.me.com(foricloud.comemail addresses)
Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Incoming server box.
Enter one of the following in the Outgoing server box:
smtp.mail.me.com(forme.comemail addresses)smtp.mac.com(formac.comemail addresses)smtp.mail.me.com(foricloud.comemail addresses)
Select Use SSL to connect (recommended) under the Outgoing server box.
Select Override default port under the Outgoing server box, and then enter 587 in the Outgoing server port text box.
After you have entered the incoming and outgoing server information, Outlook for Mac will start to receive your email messages.
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You can select Advanced to enter additional settings, such as leaving a copy of each message on the server.