{"id":84123,"date":"2014-08-11T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=84123"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:37:42","slug":"imap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/duo\/office365\/desktop-clients\/imap\/","title":{"rendered":"Using IMAP with Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You <em>can<\/em> use IMAP to access your mail hosted in Exchange Online, which allows you to continue using a non-Exchange mail client. <strong>Using Exchange this way is not optimal, however, since only &#8220;full Exchange&#8221; use (e.g. with Outlook or OWA) will give you the complete range of features that Exchange offers,<\/strong> such as integration with your Calendar and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/conf\/skype\/\">Lync<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Great! How can I set it up?<\/h4>\n<p>You would set up a <em>new <\/em>IMAP mail client just as you normally would &#8211; add a new Account using the IMAP and SMTP settings below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The incoming IMAP mail server is <strong>outlook.office365.com<\/strong> with <strong>TLS\/SSL (port 993)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The SMTP server is <strong>smtp.office365.com<\/strong> with <strong>TLS\/SSL (port 587)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>What about meeting invitations and resource scheduling? What about using Distribution Lists?<\/h4>\n<p>If you primarily use IMAP, you will still want to set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/google\/enable\/desktop-clients\/outlook\/\">Outlook <\/a>(or use <a href=\"http:\/\/xmail.bu.edu\/\">OWA<\/a> or an Exchange-compatible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/phone\/mobile-synchronization\/\">mobile client<\/a>) in order to accept and send meeting invitations and do resource scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, some mailing lists (e.g. dept-list@bu.edu) are created as Distribution Lists on Exchange and, so, will only work if you write to them while using an Exchange-configured mail client. If you get a bounce-back message from a known-good mailing list address, it probably means that you need to use <a href=\"\/tech\/support\/google\/enable\/desktop-clients\/outlook\/\">Outlook <\/a>(or use <a href=\"http:\/\/xmail.bu.edu\/\">OWA<\/a> or an Exchange-compatible <a href=\"..\/comm\/mobile\/mobile-synchronization\/\">mobile client<\/a>) in order to send to that address.<\/p>\n<h4>Can I use a mix of IMAP and &#8220;full Exchange&#8221; depending on where I am?<\/h4>\n<p>Sure! For example, you might use Outlook while at BU or on your phone, via IMAP when you&#8217;re at home, and <a href=\"http:\/\/xmail.bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">OWA <\/a>when you are traveling. As described above, if you get a meeting invite while at home on IMAP, you would need to log in to <a href=\"http:\/\/xmail.bu.edu\/\">OWA<\/a> (or another Exchange-compliant client) in order to accept it.<\/p>\n<h4>I was migrated to Exchange from another server. Why can&#8217;t I see my folders?<\/h4>\n<p>Those who were migrated to Exchange from another mail server might need to subscribe to their existing folders in order to see them in the IMAP client. <\/p>\n<h4>Will I have to use the VPN to read my Exchange IMAP email from off campus?<\/h4>\n<p>No. Use of IMAP with the recommended settings &#8211; SSL (port 993) &#8211; means that you will not need to use the VPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use IMAP to access your mail hosted in Exchange Online, which allows you to continue using a non-Exchange mail client. Using Exchange this way is not optimal, however, since only &#8220;full Exchange&#8221; use (e.g. with Outlook or OWA) will give you the complete range of features that Exchange offers, such as integration with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1303,"featured_media":0,"parent":83990,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84123"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84123\/revisions\/101705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}