LSUMail: Set Up Personal Contact Groups in Outlook 2016


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A contact group is a list of people's e-mail addresses referenced under one single mailing list name.  You can then address an e-mail to the Contact group and a copy of the message will be sent to all group members.

To Set Up Personal Contact Groups:

1. Click People on the bottom left-hand corner of the Outlook screen.

People tab


2. This will take you to the area where you can manage your contacts.


3. Click New Contact Group, located in the top right-hand corner, to add a group.

New Contact Group button


4. A new screen will appear where you can type in the name of the new group and add members to the group. 

  • You can pull members from your personal list of Outlook Contacts

  • You can pull members from the main Global Address Book

  • You can create a new e-mail contact for a person and at the same time add them to the group.

New Contact Group Naming


5. Click Save and Close to save the group you created.

Save and close button

 

Referenced from: Microsoft

 

LSUMail Server Settings

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):

outlook.office365.com      Port: 587
Encryption Method: STARTLS
Authentication: OAuth2

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