About adding accounts

Before you can send and receive e-mail messages in Outlook, you must first add an account. Outlook for Mac 2011 supports the following kinds of accounts:

Accounts managed by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 with Update Rollup 4 (KB952580) and later versions.
E-mail accounts from major providers such as AOL, Gmail, MobileMe, Windows Live Hotmail, and Yahoo. These services all use either the POPA common type of Internet-based mail account. Examples are Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. After you add a POP account to Outlook, messages from the account appear in the folder list under On My Computer. or IMAPA common type of Internet-based mail account such as Gmail, AOL Mail, and many others. Messages from these accounts appear in folders in the Outlook folder list, under the name of the account. protocol.
Any other POP or IMAP e-mail account, such as those offered by Internet service providers.
Directory service accounts that use the LDAPAn acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a protocol that provides access to Internet directories. protocol.

Notes

When you add an Exchange account, Outlook syncs your e-mail messages, calendar events, contacts, tasks, and notes with the Exchange server.
With POP and IMAP e-mail accounts, e-mail messages are the only itemsUnits of information in Outlook, such as e-mail messages, calendar events, contacts, tasks, and notes. that are synchronized between Outlook and the mail server. Other items that you create in Outlook — such as contacts, calendar events, tasks, and notes — are stored on your computer, not on the mail server.

See also
Add an Exchange account
Add an e-mail account
Add a directory service (LDAP) account

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