Set up IMAP and change your SMTP settings to read Gmail messages in other mail clients, like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail. When you use IMAP, you can read your Gmail messages on multiple devices, and messages are synced in real time. You can also read Gmail messages using POP. Restricted Gmail SMTP server—Send messages to Gmail or G Suite users only. This option does not require you to authenticate. This option does not require you to authenticate. Note: Our support team can't assist with configuration settings.
To make Apple Mail work, it’s necessary to configure an outgoing mail server, that is to enter in the default Mac client the right parameters of the SMTP server you are using. This way Apple Mail will be able to correcty deliver your messages. Just remember that only a will guarantee the highest delivery rate for your emails: in fact, normal SMTP servers like Gmail’s or Yahoo’s aren’t very reliable when it comes to mass mailing or email marketing. Anyhow, the set up process of an SMTP server on Apple Mail is very easy: 1. Click on “Preferences” in the “Mail” menu.
2.Open the “Accounts” tab and click on “Server settings”. Now enter in the “Outgoing mail server” voice your outgoing mail server name (for instance, pro.turbo-smtp.com). If you don’t know it, have a look at our list of. “Port”: default is 25, but there are also other options: check our article about. Finally, choose if you want to authenticate your mailing or not. That’s it, you’re ready to send emails with Apple Mail!
February 12, 2013 Outlook.com is designed by Microsoft as an alternative to Google Gmail. And – just like Gmail – you can configure your favorite email client to send & receive emails through your outlook.com email account.
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To do so, you need to know the Outlook.com mail server settings. Basically, you can add your outlook.com account to any email client that supports POP3 or IMAP, like Microsoft Outlook Professional, Windows Mail, Android or iOS mail apps, etc. Depending on your email client application, you can add & configure your outlook.com email account as a POP3 account or as an ActiveSync / Exchange service. Later edit : Microsoft added support for the Outlook.com IMAP email protocol, from 12th of September 2013.
We will explain below how to add your outlook.com email account to Outlook 2013 – the mail server settings are the same for all email client applications, as long as they support the related email protocol (for example, ActiveSync is supported mainly by Microsoft products like Outlook 2013). Outlook.com POP Mail Server Settings When you add the outlook.com account to Outlook 2013, on the first screen make sure you select “Manual setup or additional server types”. On the next screen, choose “POP or IMAP” and enter the following Outlook.com mail server settings in the Server Information fields: Account type: POP3 Incoming mail server: pop3.live.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.live.com Logon Information: User Name: your @outlook.com email address Password: your @outlook.com password Then click on the “ More Settings” button: Outgoing Server tab: mark the box “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” and select “use same settings as my incoming mail server”.
Advanced tab – Server Port Numbers: Incoming server (POP3): port 995 – you must also mark the box “this server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” Outgoing server (SMTP): port 587 – you must also choose “TLS” for the option “Use the following types of encrypted connection”. You can use the same Outlook.com POP server settings for any other email app, including iOS or Android Email apps. Outlook.com IMAP Mail Server Settings You have to follow exactly the same procedure as above, except that you need to select IMAP as your email account type (and not POP).
Account type: IMAP Incoming mail server: imap-mail.outlook.com Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp-mail.outlook.com Logon Information: User Name: your @outlook.com email address Password: your @outlook.com password Then click on the “ More Settings” button: Outgoing Server tab: mark the box “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” and select “use same settings as my incoming mail server”. Advanced tab – Server Port Numbers: Incoming server (POP3): port 993 – you must also mark the box “this server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” Outgoing server (SMTP): port 587 – you must also choose “TLS” for the option “Use the following types of encrypted connection”. You can use the same Outlook.com IMAP server settings for any other email app, including iOS or Android Email apps. Outlook.com Active Sync Settings ActiveSync lets you send, receive & synchronize not just your emails, but also your calendar, contacts or tasks. When you add the outlook.com account to Outlook 2013, on the first screen make sure you select “Manual setup or additional server types”. On the next screen, choose “Outlook.com or Exchange ActiveSync compatible service” and enter the following Active Sync server settings: Mail Server: s.outlook.com (if it doesn’t work, also try m.hotmail.com) Also, mark the box to use TSL/SSL for the server connection.
User Name: your full @outlook.com email address Password: your @outlook.com password Overview: Outlook.com Server Settings The Outlook.com mail server settings are valid for every email client application that supports the POP3, IMAP or Active Sync protocols, no matter the platform (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, etc). One bit I did not see in the thread was about the next step to enable ActiveSync.
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Two way authentication has to be enabled. With the authenticator app on an MS phone. Download the app from the store onto the phone. Login into your MS master account from the browser. Make sure the MS mobile is associated with the account. Enable two way authentication.
Swap keys between the phone authenticator application and the browser. Generate application passwords from the browser and update the phones MS account and outlook account. A password will also have to be generated for each device that sync’s to the account. What if your email address is @live.com and not Outlook.com? What are the imap settings for an @live.com email address? I tried with imap-mail.outlook.com and all the other settings but I get an error on the inbox saying to re download the folder list.
I do so but still receive an error “Could not select ‘inbox’ on IMAP server. Try uploading the folder list and try again. So I was hoping someone knows the @live.com server imap addresses, Ports and Security settings Thank you in advance for your help.