Repeat for any additional folders, as desired.

An icon appears next to each subscribed folder.

Select the desired folder then click Subscribe.

Right-click on the email address and choose the IMAP Folders command.

To see these other folders in Outlook, you need to 'subscribe' to them: However, IMAP also provides additional folders named Drafts, Sent, and Trash, and you can create other folders using our Webmail system. If you don't see new mail, make sure you've opened the section.īy default, Outlook will only show the Inbox folder. Outlook shows the IMAP Inbox separately, below the normal POP Inbox, like this: Once you have done this, you should either disable the old POP3 account, or copy any old mail (eg, sent mail) to the appropriate folders in the new IMAP account and then delete the old POP3 account. If you previously set up your mailbox as a POP3 account in Outlook, you'll unfortunately need to setup a new IMAP account for the mailbox in Outlook. In addition, the 'Incoming server (IMAP)' port should be 143, and the 'Outgoing server (SMTP)' port should be 587.

In step 9, enter INBOX in the 'Root folder path' box.

In step 6, choose IMAP as the 'Account Type' (instead of 'POP3').

You'll first need to follow the standard instructions to set up Outlook, with these two differences: Follow our standard instructions for setting up Outlook If you must use Outlook 2007, we recommend using POP3 connections instead of IMAP. If you need an IMAP mail program, you should either upgrade to the current version of Outlook (if you need Outlook's calendar and contact syncing features) or using the free Mozilla Thunderbird program instead (if you don’t).

If you use it for IMAP, you almost certainly will have problems. The 2007 version of Outlook has many design flaws that make it difficult and confusing to manage IMAP email, and it performs very poorly - becoming almost unusable at times - with large amounts of mail. Outlook 2007 is not recommended as an IMAP mail program.

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