Outlook sucks as a POP and IMAP client because of the PST file format. PST is terrible, and prone to corruption. Without an Exchange backend, Outlook has to store *everything* in your PST. Calendars, ...

Frankly, the world would be better off if they just abandoned the pretense and dropped IMAP support completely. I posted a while back on the topic of prospect of moving from Outlook+POP to ...

You already know how to turn Thunderbird into the ultimate Gmail/IMAP client, but lots of folks are using Microsoft Outlook on a daily basis (whether by personal or company choice.) The How-To Geek ...

For the past few days, an issue with Microsoft's Outlook service is affecting numerous third-party email clients. It results in problems when authenticating accounts and exchanging emails. Internet ...

More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages ...

Microsoft's e-mail service finally supports IMAP. Here's how to add your account to Thunderbird or another desktop mail client. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...

Microsoft today announced Outlook.com users can now import email from IMAP-enabled email providers, including Yahoo Mail. The addition is part of the service’s import wizard, which lets you keep your ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of new capabilities that were added to the "new Outlook for Mac preview" e-mail client app. The new Outlook for Mac preview was first introduced by ...

The classic Outlook will remain the default for enterprise customers, at least for another year.

Google is investigating a service outage affecting Gmail users worldwide that causes issues when syncing emails with Microsoft servers via the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). On affected ...

It's hard to believe that this is a headline in 2013, given IMAP has been around for decades and is extremely useful, but when the company in question is wrapped into its own email protocol, it ...

Getting Outlook.com to work with email client applications via IMAP is proving to be a challenge for some users of the Microsoft webmail service. A variety of problems have been reported through ...