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Managing Accounts in an Identity
Figure 1-4:
Managing
Accounts.
Set Default Account
The Account dialog lists your Identity’s accounts along the left. When you
choose an account, the account’s settings display on the right. You can
make the selected account the default account for the Identity by clicking
the Set Default Account button. To add a new account, click the plus (+)
sign, and to remove the selected account, click the minus (–) sign. When
you click the plus sign, you discover there are three kinds of accounts:
✦ E-mail: These are POP and IMAP accounts. (See “Getting to Know
Microsoft Outlook for Mac,” earlier in this chapter.)
✦ Exchange: An account that is hosted on a Microsoft Exchange Server.
✦ Directory: This is a lookup service using a protocol called LDAP
(Lightweight Directory Assistance Protocol). Large organizations
often offer LDAP service either internally or to the entire Internet.
Adding an e-mail account
You may be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to add an e-mail account
to an Outlook Identity. Microsoft has gathered the settings for a large
number of popular e-mail providers so that in many cases, all you have
to do is enter your e-mail address and password, and Outlook takes care
of the rest.
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