If your email app doesn’t support Exchange ActiveSync or IMAP, but supports POP3, first turn on POP for your Outlook.com account.
- Sign in to your Outlook.com account.
- Click the Options icon
, and then click More mail settings. - Under Managing your account, click Connect devices and apps with POP.
- Under POP, select Enable.
- Click Save.
Then use the following settings in your email app.
- Incoming (POP3) Server
- Server address: pop-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 995
- Encrypted Connection: SSL
- Outgoing (SMTP) Server
- Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
- Authentication: Yes
- Encrypted Connection: TLS
- User name: Your email address
- Password: Your password
- If you don’t want email to be deleted from your Outlook.com inbox after it’s downloaded to your email app, select theLeave a copy of messages on the server option.
Even if you accidentally set up POP3 to delete messages after downloading them, Outlook.com will save a copy of the mail in a folder called POP until you verify the POP3 delete command.
Verify the POP3 delete command
- Sign in to your Outlook.com account
- Click the Options icon , and then click More mail settings.
- Under Managing Your Account, click Connect devices and apps with POP.
- Under POP, make sure Enable is selected.
- Select Don’t let devices or apps delete messages … to override any delete requests.
– Or –
Select Do what the device or app says … to allow devices and apps to delete messages from the inbox. - Click Save.
Note
- This setting applies to all POP email apps that you might be using with your Outlook.com account.