Microsoft adds IMAP and OAuth support to its Outlook.com email service, providing what it says is a "richer email experience across devices and apps." Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages ...

Frankly, the world would be better off if they just abandoned the pretense and dropped IMAP support completely. I posted a while back on the topic of prospect of moving from Outlook+POP to ...

One of the major issues with Microsoft's Hotmail replacement, Outlook.com, is you could only access it on the web or, with email clients, through the POP3 or Microsoft's EAS protocol. A lot more ...

Microsoft's e-mail service finally supports IMAP. Here's how to add your account to Thunderbird or another desktop mail client. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

IMAP (short for Internet Message Access Protocol) is an internet protocol that lets you sync your email inbox across multiple devices. Most popular email apps, like Gmail and Outlook, use IMAP servers ...

Accessing Gmail via IMAP with Outlook cramping your email style? If you find yourself waiting too long for your Outlook inbox changes to sync back to the mothership, a few settings can speed up the ...

Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few stories and discussions online centering around the always popular debate about whether to use IMAP or POP3 for email. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, IMAP ...

Challenge was announced last week, here: how to get many years' worth of email stored in old Outlook .PST files into an online Gmail account. Conceptual basis of the real solution. It involves IMAP ...