Importing email from Outlook and Office365

SlickAlpha mailspaces support importing email from Outlook and Office365 using IMAP protocol. If multi-factor authentication is not enabled in your Outlook account, you can skip to step 2 and use your Outlook credentials to validate and import email to your SlickAlpha mailbox.

1. Setup app passwords for your Outlook/Office365 account

  1. If you are importing from your personal Outlook account, follow instructions in this Microsoft documentation to generate your app password.
  2. If you are importing from your work Outlook/Office364 account, follow instructions in this Microsoft documentation to generate your app password.
  3. This app password should be used to validate and import email, instead of your Outlook account password.

2. Validate source login using IMAP analyzer

  1. Visit our free IMAP analyzer tool and validate your Outlook credentials.
  2. If your credentials are validated successfully, Mailbox login test should be marked as pass. You can now use these credentials to import email to SlickAlpha mailbox.
    SlickAlpha IMAP Analyzer Login Check

3. Starting an import job

A. For administrators

As an administrator/owner of a mailspace, you can import email for any mailbox in your mailspace. To start an email import,

  1. Open My Mailspaces page, and click Manage for your mailspace.
  2. Scroll down to find Transfers section, and click Import Email button.
  3. Select the target mailbox from the dropdown menu, and enter your source email and password validated in step 2.
  4. Click Import Email to start the import process.

B. For assigned members

As an assigned member, you can import email if imports are enabled for your mailbox. To start an email import,

  1. Open My Mailboxes page, and click Manage for your mailbox.
  2. Scroll down to find Transfers section, and click Import Email button.
  3. Enter your source email and password validated in step 2.
  4. Click Import Email to start the import process.

During import process, your mailbox will be locked from access. After starting an email import, you can optionally cancel it within 5 minutes from creating the job. If you have enabled the Auto Requeue option, the process will enter Active state after each successful completion. During Active state, you can access your mailbox, or optionally cancel the import job.