After you install the Office for Mac 2011 (Note: Office for Mac 2011 Home and Students version does not include Outlook 2011) for mac on your system, you can setup Outlook 2011 for reading your emails via IMAP.

Note: Office for Mac 2011 Exchange account only supports accounts managed by Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) and later versions.

Procedures:

• Open Outlook 2011
• From the menu bar, click Tools -> Accounts
• In the Add an Account Windows, click Email Account
• Then enter your account information as below. Then click Add Account
  • Email Address: username@ied.edu.hk (where username is your login ID)
  • Password:
  • User name: username (where username is your login ID)
  • Type: IMAP
  • Incoming Server: imap.ied.edu.hk
  • Tick the option use SSL to connect (recommended)
  • Server: smtp.ied.edu.hk (It depends on what ISP you are using)
  • Tick the option use SSL to connect (recommended)
  
• If you are using HKIEd SMTP server, click the More options... button
• For the Authentication, choose Use incoming server info.
• Close the Accounts windows. Now the Outlook will strart to download your emails.