In the panel that opens, enter your email address and click “Connect”. Start by opening Outlook and go to File > Add Account Then we’ll show you how to set up an account using POP3. Outlook uses IMAP by default, so we’ll use that first. The process is quite simple and we will use a Gmail account as an example. You should be able to find the required details on your provider’s Wiki or by contacting customer service. Your provider’s POP3 or IMAP details, if you’re not using a known provider like Gmail. Your username and password for your email account. Microsoft Outlook installed on your computer. To access your email account through Outlook, you’ll need three things: How to access your email account through Microsoft Outlook That’s why we recommend that you use IMAP unless you have a good reason to use POP3. All the things you do with your email are synced if you use IMAP, so, for example, if you send an email from your phone, you can look in the Sent Items folder using your tablet and the email you sent will be there.

IMAP is much more suited to a modern world where we access the same email account on multiple devices like your phone, laptop, and tablet. So if you delete an email on your computer, you delete it on the email server and vice versa.

Any changes you make to your email client will be synced to the server. The IMAP protocol downloads a copy of your email from the server to the client on your computer. It then deletes the email on the server, so the only copy of your emails is on your computer. The POP3 protocol downloads your email from the server to the client on your computer. We’ve covered the difference between POP3 and IMAP in detail before, but here’s a quick reminder. And all email providers allow you to access your email account via POP3 or IMAP. Every email client you’ve had on your computer in the last 25 years-Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora, Pegasus, or whatever-has supported them. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol) are two of the most common protocols for accessing email. Here’s how to connect your email account to Outlook, using POP3 or IMAP. Microsoft Outlook can access any email account, not just Microsoft accounts, as long as it has the correct information. How to set up a POP3 or IMAP account in Microsoft Outlook

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