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Office 365, Email, Exchange, Setting up Apple Mail
This article details how to configure the Apple Mail application in macOS to use your University of Illinois email account. These instructions are accurate for most recent versions of macOS, 10.14 (Mojave) and newer.
Removing an Account for Re-Authentication
If you Apple Mail app was configured to work with your University email account sometime before August 2022, and it stopped working around that time, it may be using the outdated and less secure Basic Authentication sign-in protocol. If this is the case, you will need to remove the account from macOS and then add it back.
Removing and re-adding your account often resolves other syncing issues as well.
- Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen, and choose Force Quit...
- Use the Force Quit Applications window to stop the Mail app if it is running. If you do not see an entry for Mail in the Force Quit menu, continue to 3.
- Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen and choose System Preferences...
- Click Internet Accounts to open a window listing the accounts that macOS has been configured with. Locate your University account in this list and click it to select it. If you do not see your University account here, no further action is needed.
- Click the - minus icon in the lower-left corner of the list of accounts to remove your University account.
macOS may warn you about losing information, but any data stored on the University mail server will not be lost; this step only removes it from your device.
Adding an Account with Modern Authentication
- Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of the screen and choose System Preferences...
- Click Internet Accounts to open a window listing the accounts that macOS has been configured with.
- Click the + plus icon in the lower-left corner of the list of accounts.
- Choose "Microsoft Exchange" as the mail service provider when prompted.
- Input your University email address yourNetID@illinois.edu and click Sign In.
- If asked whether you want to sign in using Microsoft, choose Sign In (not Configure Manually).
- A window with a University-branded sign-in screen will appear with your email address already filled in and a prompt for your password. Input the same password that you use for other University websites and services, and click Sign In.
- Check the boxes for the Exchange account features you'd like to use in macOS, then click Done.