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If you are already using an iCloud email address, you can sign into a supported email client on Windows 10 such as Windows Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird, and your emails will show up. The first method is the easiest, and for most cases, it’ll work.Īpple’s built-in mail client uses the IMAP storage format, which keeps a copy of your messages on both the server and your Mac. This also allows you to access all your mail via another device such as a laptop, tablet, netbook or smartphone and any sent items and read/unread status will automatically be updated to any device.Here are two ways to do it: Method 1: Sync Apple Mail via IMAP If you had your POP3 account configured to leave a copy on the server and sorted your mail into folders, you’ll probably first have to empty your IMAP inbox to prevent duplicates.Īs an IMAP account does a complete sync between your mail client (Outlook) and the server, your emails will also be available again in the web interface of your mailbox and the folder structure will be identical. To move across these items, you’ll have to select the messages instead of the folder. Note: You cannot move or copy the Inbox or Sent Items folders since these are special folders. If you drag & drop mails or folders via your right mouse button, you’ll get an option to either move or copy the selected items. To transfer your data, simply select the messages or folders that you want to have back onto the IMAP server and initiate a copy or move command or use the drag & drop method. Step 3: Transfer your mail foldersĪfter you have added your IMAP account and if your mailbox space permits it, you could optionally transfer your current emails, which you downloaded via POP3, and folder structure to your IMAP account. Setting up an account manually makes sure you'llĬonfigure it as an IMAP instead of a POP3 account.

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The server settings for the major free email providers can be found in the guide Configure Outlook with an (Hotmail), Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo, AOL or iCloud account. You can ask your email provider for the needed settings if you don’t have these. When you manually set up the IMAP, make sure you have the server configuration details at hand.

If this fails or if it finds the POP3 settings, you can use the option “Manually configure server settings or additional server types”.

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You can use the “Auto Account Setup” wizard where you only need to fill out your name, email address and password and Outlook will try to find the settings needed for your account. You can do this in the same dialog that you opened in the step above. The next step is to add your mailbox as an IMAP account. Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016įile-> section Info-> Account Settings-> Account Settings…-> select your POP3 account-> press Remove.Tools-> Account Settings…-> select your POP3 account-> press Remove Removing your POP3 account can be done via the Account Settings dialog This is also handy in case something goes wrong with the data transfer later on. Removing your POP3 account will not delete any already downloaded emails, contacts, calendar item or any other data but it of course never hurts to start with making a proper backup of your current pst-file. We start by removing the current POP3 account to prevent transferred items being downloaded and removed from the server again and causing duplicates. Re-configuring it as an IMAP account anyway, isn't very complex though. POP3 is greyed out for an already configured account. For more background details on this see: Don’t risk losing your Contacts and Calendar when using IMAP in Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016. In Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, you do no longer explicitly need an additional pst-file but it is still recommended to do so. The additional pst-file is therefor required to continue to store your contacts, calendar, tasks, notes and journal items. In addition, you might need to do some configuring to have your Sent Items being saved to the Sent Items folder of the IMAP account but in most cases Outlook will do this automatically.Īlso note that you cannot remove the existing set of folders (pst-file) which you used for your POP3 account since an IMAP account only supports email folders.

Transfer your mail folders (if space on the server permits it).

In short, there are 3 steps to this process You cannot “convert” an existing POP3 account directly to an IMAP account. How do I change from POP3 to IMAP without losing my current emails? Looking at my account settings, POP3 is grayed out so I can't simply change that to IMAP. I'm currently using a POP3 account but want to switch that to an IMAP account.