To set up Apple Mail to use, launch Mail and then, using the menu, select Mail > Preferences. First, I have to trick Mail so that it allows us to set up an account manually, allowing us to specify the new details. Since has supported only POP, until recently, Apple Mail's automatic configuration of email accounts will default to setting up any email address as a POP3 account. As you'll find out shortly, this isn't simply the case of entering your email address and password. I'll set up Apple Mail to use our email address using IMAP.

Now that supports IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), I can now configure both Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook for Mac to access via more modern standards.

With POP, you could read 20 messages on your Mac and your iPhone would either show them as unread or, depending upon how POP3 had been configured, not show them at all.Īlthough has supported Microsoft's own Exchange ActiveSync service on devices such as the iPhone and Windows Mobile, it's only supported on a desktop within recent versions of Microsoft Outlook for Windows, even Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac isn't supported. Instead of a constant connection, which is the norm nowadays, POP was from a time when there was no such thing as broadband and would connect to download all the messages from the server before disconnecting.īecause of this, POP3 doesn't support messages being marked as read or unread, since these changes weren't reflected on the server. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) was never designed for multiple devices and its primary purpose was for infrequent access of a mail server via a single computer. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to set up in both Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook. As you might guess, it's not as straightforward as you'd expect. Thankfully, has finally introduced IMAP support so our preferred desktop mail client can be used.

This is because only supported the more advanced features, that you've come to expect from an email provider, on mobile devices that supported Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or Microsoft's own Outlook mail app for Windows. If you wanted to use their new service within Apple Mail, however, you were limited to using the ancient method of accessing your emails via POP3. Earlier this year, Microsoft rebranded their Hotmail email service as.

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