Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Using IMAP Accounts

IMAP is becoming more common on Internet-based e-mail servers because it offers several advantages over POP3. Outlook 2007 support for IMAP means that you can use Outlook 2007 to send and receive messages through IMAP servers as well as through Exchange Server, POP3, and the other mail server types that Outlook 2007 supports.

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For more information about IMAP and its differences from POP3, see "IMAP," in Chapter 2.

Configuring an IMAP account is a lot like configuring a POP3 account. The only real difference is that you select IMAP as the account type rather than POP3 when you add the account. You can refer to the preceding section on creating POP3 accounts, "Using Internet POP3 E-Mail Accounts," for a description of the procedure ...