Question by inez p: I am trying to set up an account through Microsoft Outlook and its asking me for POP3 & IMAP. whats this ?
I have no clue as to what to do or what is the server that its asking about. Im just trying to set up a new account.
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Answer by vito
this is not that difficult. For example, i get my yahoo mail through outlook. What i did was type in search, server mail info yahoo for outlook and it brought to yahoo mail server info. This will tell you what to exactly type in,whether it be pop 3 or something else. Basically ,whatever mail your trying to receive, you have to get mail server info first,and then you can receive mail.
Hope i helped.
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What it amounts to is that Outlook is not a mail server, but a mail *client*; you need to have your email provider’s server information to be able to set up an account in Outlook.
The POP3 server is the server you receive mail *through*, SMTP is the server used to *send* email.
IMAP or MAPI are hardly ever used, except by what used to be Netscape. Exchange is used primarily in corporations for internal email services.
If you have an online email provider (like Yahoo! Plus, Hotmail Premium, etc.), you need to setup an HTTP mail account.
Check your online email pages, and look for the Options pages, where you’ll find information how to setup Outlook.
If you get mail through your ISP, find their support pages to see how to setup Outlook.