Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Connect to Your E-Mail Account

You can connect to multiple accounts, and to multiple types of accounts, from Entourage 2008. If you’re running the standard or Special Media Edition of Office 2008, you can connect to an IMAP, a POP, a Windows Live Hotmail, or a Microsoft Exchange Server account.

Work with Exchange Accounts

If you purchased Entourage as part of the Microsoft Office 2008 Home & Student Edition, you can’t connect to an Exchange account by specifying it as such. However, if your Exchange mailbox is set up to allow IMAP and/or POP access, you can connect to the account by using that protocol. Connecting to an Exchange account through the IMAP protocol provides the structure and some of the functionality of the standard Exchange connection, ...