Microsoft's e-mail service finally supports IMAP. Here's how to add your account to Thunderbird or another desktop mail client.

If you want to set up IMAP right away, here are the technical details, per Steve’s post: IMAP Incoming IMAP mail server: imap-mail.outlook.com Incoming IMAP mail server port: 993 Encryption: SSL ...

If you're a fan of Outlook.com but still use a few other accounts for mail—like Gmail or Yahoo—you can import your mail and manage it from Outlook.com's awesome interface. Gmail importing has ...

In IMAP email accounts in Outlook, whenever I move a message from one folder to another or delete a message, I also have to run the Purge Deleted Messages command for the messages to completely ...

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 Outlook.com team is doing another Reddit ‘Ask me anything’ (AMA) and one of the top questions was regarding IMAP support. In a clever announcement, the team notified the person asking the ...

Microsoft has announced that has finally added support for the older IMAP protocol to its Outlook.com email service, which will allow third parties to make add-ons for the service.

We are about to undertake a migration of about 250 users from a Sendmail server running IMAP to an Exchange 2003 box. The problem is that the users like to make subfolders of their inboxes on ...

By combining a strong feature set and sleek, easy-to-use e-mail, Microsoft's Outlook.com is leaps beyond Hotmail and a clear alternative even for Gmail users.