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 ...

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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, ...

Getting Outlook.com to work with email client applications via IMAP is proving to be a challenge for some users of the Microsoft webmail service. A variety of problems have been reported through ...

On the mail server, I have my inbox and other folders. Everything was fine; never changed a thing. Then one day Outlook crashed just opening up. Before it did though, I caught a glimpse of all these ...

POP and IMAP are communication protocols between the email client and the email provider. These protocols facilitate the flow of data from email servers to email clients. POP was the first to come and ...

Hello, compatibility! Microsoft's obviously a major proponent of Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), but if you've been using electronic mail for any length of time, you're probably aware that IMAP is a darn ...

BEIJING -- Chinese users of Microsoft's Outlook email service were subject to a hacking attack over the weekend, just weeks after Google's Gmail service was blocked in China, an online censorship ...