Setting up your UiO account
- Open Apple Mail on your Mac, and go to the Mail menu and choose Add Account... .
- Choose Microsoft Exchange as your Mail account provider and press Continue.
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Enter your full name in Name and username@uio.no in the Email Address field. Then click Sign in.
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- Click Sign In to let Microsoft discover you Exchange account information for automatic setup of your email and calendar.
- A Sign in window appears, write in your UiO password and press Sign in.
- Use your chosen way of two-factor authentication:
- Choose the applications you want to use on your Mac with Exchange in Microsoft 365:
Recommended setting
Office 365 accounts are not backed up. However, Outlook on the web and some desktop versions of Outlook let you recover deleted items that are no longer visible in the Deleted Items folder.
In Apple Mail you can set how long to keep messages in the Trash folder. Once a message is permanently erased in Apple Mail it cannot be recovered from the Deleted Items folder in Outlook on the web. We recommend setting Apple Mail to never permanently erase deleted messages.
- In the Mail menu, click Preferences.
- In the Accounts pane, click the Mailbox Behaviors tab.
- In the Trash section, choose the following settings:
- Store deleted messages on server: checked
- Permanently erase deleted messages: Never