Setting up Hover email is similar to setting up any POP or IMAP email service. Create POP or IMAP connections with your new Personal Email address from Hover. If you're unable to send email, switch to port 465 (if SSL is enabled) or port. Hover email address in Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and in Gmail.
If you're having switching an IMAP account to POP3 is a great solution!. Here you can see in Thunderbird that I have a [email protected] account currently setup to use an IMAP Mail Server. In Thunderbird navigate to Tools Account Settings. Click on Account Actions and then Add Mail Account. Fill in your, then click Continue. Now select POP3 (keep mail on your computer) and click Done. Now back on the Account Settings window, click on the newly created [email protected] account, and update the Account Name to append (POP3) on the end, so we know which account is which easily, then click OK.
At this point you can now see that our original IMAP account has 5 messages in it, and these are stored on the server. If you attempt to at this point, you'll see these same messages stored there. You can select one of the messages from your IMAP account, then hit Ctrl-A to select all messages, then drag them into your POP3 account to move these messages off the server. Now if you, you'll see all those messages have been removed from the server. Now you'll want to remove your IMAP account from Thunderbird to ensure that it doesn't keep trying to make a duplicate connection to the server, since your POP3 account is already going to connect and retrieve your email. Right-click on the IMAP account and click on Settings. On the Account Settings window, click on Account Actions and then Remove Account.
You'll get a confirmation window pop-up asking if you're sure you want to remove the account, just click OK. Switch from POP3 to IMAP Switching a POP3 account to IMAP allows you to keep messages on the server, and to syncronize them to multiple IMAP clients.
You just need to create a new IMAP account in your mail client, then drag any messages from your old POP3 account into the IMAP account if you'd like to retain them and remove the POP3 account. While IMAP might be more convenient for how you check email, because all of your messages get left on the server instead of your local mail client it could potentially lead to. Here you can see in Thunderbird that I have a [email protected] account currently setup to use a POP Mail Server or POP3.
In Thunderbird navigate to Tools Account Settings. Click on Account Actions and then Add Mail Account. Fill in your, then click Continue. Now select IMAP (remote folders) and click Done.
Now back on the Account Settings window, click on the newly created [email protected] account, and update the Account Name to append (IMAP) on the end, so we know which account is which easily, then click OK. At this point you can now see that our original POP3 account has 5 messages in it, and these are stored on the local computer itself. If you attempt to at this point, you'll see there are no messages stored on the server for this account.
This is because they are all stored locally in your mail client. You can select one of the messages from your POP3 account, then hit Ctrl-A to select all messages, then drag them into your IMAP account to move these messages to the server. Now if you, you'll see all those messages you just moved on the server-side.
They can now be syncronized to any IMAP client such as your phone without the messages being removed from the server. Next you'll want to remove your POP3 account from Thunderbird otherwise the messages in your IMAP account will keep being removed from the server and pulled back into the POP3 account. Right-click on the POP3 account and click on Settings. On the Account Settings window, click on Account Actions and then Remove Account. You'll get a confirmation window pop-up asking if you're sure you want to remove the account, just click OK. You should now have the knowledge and know how to switch your mail client from using either POP3 or IMAP as your prefered email retrieving protocol.
I'm new to Thunderbird and have set up my office mate's computer and email and realized (too late I think) that I'd set it up as IMAP and the company prefers POP. Three months later and the server side shows it's reached capacity. If I follow the directions above, will she lose all of her current emails, address book, and folders? I keep her backed up with Mozback (excellent little program by the way!) but I'm afraid I won't be able to use that to restore her profile once I create the new POP account.
On another note: I have an iPhone 7 Plus and have somewhat successfully been able to get my emails. I can read them but not respond-is that due to the IMAP vs POP situation? Thanks in advance for your help-I hope it made even a tiny bit of sense. If you have configured Thunderbird using an IMAP connection to the server then the emails would remain on the server (which is why the disk space is so high). This would be the case, unless you had configured Thunderbird to remove the emails from the server through the email client's configuration. By default though, IMAP will not remove emails. Therefore, if you change the IMAP default configuration to POP, the emails should then download to your office mate's computer.
By default, POP will indeed remove emails from the server (after being downloaded). You can also change this behavior through the. In regards to your iPhone inquiry, the issue with sending would generally be resolved through your SMTP settings.
POP/IMAP are used for incoming/reading emails, whereas SMTP is used for writing/sending emails. I would recommend checking your SMTP settings in the iPhone configuration. You can do this (in iOS 11) by following these steps:. Navigate to: Settings Accounts & Passwords. Tap on the Email Account from the list of Accounts.
Tap on Account. Then under Outgoing Mail Server, you should see the option to tap on SMTP. From this Outgoing Mail Server page, review the Primary Server settings (by tapping on it) and also be sure to check if any Other SMTP Servers are enabled (if they are, disable them). In most cases, the SMTP server selected may be incorrect or conflicting with another that is enabled.
If the settings appear correct, then tap on the Server toggle button in the SMTP settings to turn it off and on. This helps clear out any bad/stuck connections that the iPhone may be caught up on.
I hope this helps! Sincerely, Carlos E.
Hello, by mistake I forgot to check 'leave a copy of emails on server'in options of outlook 2007 and now all my emails and folders from outlook.com are gone and are stored locally inside my laptop. My primary app for receiving emails is outllok.com server.
Now how can restore back all my emails and folders as where initially were on the server? I have find two ways: The first is to use thunderbird with redirect plug in, so it will transfer back all my emails (and folders perhaps?). And the second is to restore all deleted items from inside outlook.com options menu (actually I am scaring if it makes any changes to dates ).So which is better? Thank you in Advance. I just have one questions.
Can this workaround be applied to a Gmail account and an iPhone? This is the background: The original account (IMAP) was deleted by accident so the only backup of the emails is in the iphone. Now, the deleted account was regenerated again, but it is a new one, without any emails or folders.
If I switch form IMAP to POP in this iphone, would I lose the already downloaded emails or it can just start receiving the new ones without touching the older ones? I have read that POP3 will not allow me to have subfolders, which I need or I'll never be able to keep things organized. I also liked that whether I was at my office PC or away using my laptop or iPhone, I could receive and respond to messages without anything getting lost on the way and all records were kept.
My issue, is that now the server is saying my account is almost full. If I change to POP3, will my subfolders be transferred also or will they be lost? Or should I save my IMAP Inbox and subfolders to the Personal Inbox folder and it be saved on my computer and see if I can access older emails?
Hi, I have one machine using POP3 with many years of emails, so it's like a database now, and we want to keep it that way. But it would be great if on my laptop I could access current email in a nicer interface like yours, instead of on webmail like we do now.
So, my proposed solution is to keep using POP3 on the main machine, and leave messages on the server for 20 days. And, use eM Client in IMAP mode on the laptop to access the last 20 days worth of received emails.
I understand that email sent from the IMAP machine will not show up on the POP3 machine (unless I copy myself), and visa versa. But, some people have said that using the two protocols on the same email account may cause problems (with the index??). Can you let me know if that's true? We really don't want to mess up the message storage base on the POP3 machine, but it would be very handy to have IMAP access to monitor what is current and also send out some email.
We already do this using webmail, so not sure why techies have said IMAP access would mess things up. Is webmail basically IMAP with no local storage? Or is webmail something different all together? I ask, because we want to replace webmail acces with eM Client access since your interface is so much nicer, and still have the POP3 account keeping incoming mail.
Thanks very much!! Hello Leslie, I'm not really sure what interface you're referring to (you're calling it 'eM'). You can always use another email client like Thunderbird or Outlook that allows you to store email OFFLINE. You can still access these messages at that point - though they'll only be on that particular computer. The issue of using POP3 and IMAP shouldn't really be a problem as long as you leave a copy of the emails on the server.
POP3 will generally download emails to the client, but if you leave a copy of the emails on the server, then it shouldn't been an issue for IMAP users on the same account. Our webmail clients all work in IMAP, so, it shouldn't be an issue to use either protocol. You're welcome to try either protocol when you try using the email client you're referring to. If you have any further questions or comments, please let us know. Regards, Arnel C. Hello Valentina, If you want to have access to your emails OFFLINE, regardless of having connection to the internet, then you will need to consider using an email client like Outlook/Thunderbird.
Bear in mind that although you could access those emails, if you're OFFLINE, then you couldn't send anything out. Remember that when you use the POP3 protocol for email, then you are limited to email only within the INBOX. Additionally, while you can leave a copy of all emails on the server, your email needs to be downloaded first. IMAP allows you to create folder structures so that you can organize your email. When you're talking about using Gmail, if you're using the free from your browser, that is a program that requires that you work ONLINE - connected to the internet. The other 2 email clients you mentioned - Outlook and Thunderbird - have a variety of options. You can use them to also get email from Gmail or other accounts.
You can also use their built-in functionality to create filters that automatically move messages to certain locations. The main desirability of the clients will be their ability to work offline. So in terms of changes for your email, take another look at either Outlook and Thunderbird. You will find they work in either POP or IMAP - though in your case, you'll probably want to work in IMAP in order to organize by individual folders. I hope this helps to answer your question, please let us know if you require any further assistance. Regards, Arnel C. I am using POP3 accounts on my domain.
I have also enabled Email Archive option of the cPanel and I am getting all the incoming and outgoing messages stored in a imap account. I have configured the imap account in my outlook and it has syncyed all emails. Now, I want to take a back of these emails and stored them as POP3 since the IMAP account is configured to delete all emails older then 7 days to save disk space. How can I convert all imap emails into pop3 emails in my outlook wihout usign the export feature as it creates a backup file. I want to use the option as a daily feature and it should keep storing all emails in the folder. Please advise.
Thanks, Amit. Hello Steph, When using email clients such as Thunderbird there are two different setups. The one you had your Thunderbird set up with will determine whether you can get your emails back or not. One is called IMAP which syncs with the server. This means that the Thunderbird is like a window to the server and the emails actually live up on the server. Once you reconnect to your account to the server, the emails should resync from the server and it should appear the same as before. The other setup is called POP3.
This format pulls the emails off of the server down to the computer. In this case, if the emails are deleted they are not recoverable. Kindest Regards, Scott M.
First of all, thank you. This is an outstaning forum. I have a myriad of computers I am responsible for and am faced with a delema. My ISP switched today from a pop3 to an imap. I am using Thunderbird due to security reasons as a an elected official, (so I can store emails in folders privately off line) and need to change eerything over to an imap. I set up a new account on one computer and it downloaed everything on the server? My question is: It I leave non vital messages on the server for future reference will I continue to download everything that is on there every time I check my email?
Is ther a way to establish a way to just download new mail only but keep the others on the server for reference? Thanks in advance. Hello Tammi, Thanks for the question. POP3 email accounts are centered around the INBOX and they typically are set to download the email to a client (like Outlook) unless you have set it so that a copy remains on the email server. If you don't have a copy of the emails already saved to the server, then to make sure that you have a copy of your emails, you should save all of your emails to a local location on your computer first.
Then you can bring them back into your Outlook account when you have completed converting to IMAP. This can be done in Outlook. Note, the email server is not changing to either POP3 or IMAP. You're changing the protocol of the program you're using to access the emails. I hope that helps to answer your question.
If you require further assistance then please let us know. Regards, Arnel C.
Configure authenticated SMTP settings for POP3 and IMAP4 clients in Exchange Server. 7/5/2018. 6 minutes to read. Contributors. In this article After you enable and configure POP3 or IMAP4 on an Exchange server as described in and, you need to configure the authenticated SMTP settings for POP3 and IMAP4 clients so they can send email messages.
The default Receive connector named 'Client Frontend ' in the Client Access services on the Mailbox server listens for authenticated SMTP client submissions on port 587. By default, this connector uses the following settings for internal and external client (authenticated) SMTP connections:. SMTP server:. For example, mailbox01.contoso.com. TCP port: 587. Encryption method: TLS.
Note that this is opportunistic TLS ( STARTTLS) that results in an encrypted connection after the initial plain text protocol handshake. For more information, see. To configure the authenticated SMTP settings that are used by POP3 and IMAP4 clients, perform the following steps:.
Configure the FQDN on the 'Client Frontend ' Receive connector. Specify the certificate that's used to encrypt authenticated SMTP client connections. Configure Outlook on the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App) to display the SMTP settings for authenticated SMTP clients at Settings Options Mail Accounts POP and IMAP. For more information about POP3 and IMAP4, see. What do you need to know before you begin?. Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is being replaced by Transport Layer Security (TLS) as the protocol that's used to encrypt data sent between computer systems. They're so closely related that the terms 'SSL' and 'TLS' (without versions) are often used interchangeably. Because of this similarity, references to 'SSL' in Exchange topics, the Exchange admin center, and the Exchange Management Shell have often been used to encompass both the SSL and TLS protocols. Typically, 'SSL' refers to the actual SSL protocol only when a version is also provided (for example, SSL 3.0). To find out why you should disable the SSL protocol and switch to TLS, check out. If you have POP3 or IMAP4 clients that can only send SMTP email on port 25, you can configure port 25 on the 'Client Frontend ' Receive connector to allow clients to send authenticated SMTP email. However, because port 25 is also configured on the 'Client Frontend ' Receive connector for email from external SMTP servers, you'll need to modify the local IP addresses that are used to listen on port 25 on one or both of the connectors.
For more information, see. You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures.
To see what permissions you need, see the 'Receive connectors' entry in the topic. For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see. Tip Having problems? Ask for help in the Exchange forums. Visit the forums at:,.
Step 1: Configure the FQDN on the 'Client Frontend ' Receive connector You can skip this step if you want to keep the default server FQDN value (for example, mailbox01.contoso.com). Or, you can specify an FQDN value that's more compatible with your Internet naming convention or a TLS certificate that you want to use. If you change the FQDN value, and you want internal POP3 or IMAP4 clients to use this connector to send email, the new FQDN needs to have a corresponding record in your internal DNS. Regardless of the FQDN value, if you want external POP3 or IMAP4 clients to use this connector to send email, the FQDN needs to have a corresponding record in your public DNS, and the TCP port (587) needs to be allowed through your firewall to the Exchange server. Use the EAC to configure the FQDN for authenticated SMTP clients.
In the EAC, go to Mail flow Receive connectors. In the list of Receive connectors, select Client Frontend, and then click Edit ( ). In the Exchange Receive Connector page that opens, click Scoping. In the FQDN field, enter the SMTP server FQDN that you want to use for authenticated SMTP client connections (for example, mail.contoso.com) and then click Save. Use the Exchange Management Shell to configure the FQDN for authenticated SMTP clients To configure the FQDN for authenticated SMTP clients, use the following syntax: Get-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Client Frontend.' Set-ReceiveConnector -Fqdn This example configures the FQDN value mail.contoso.com.
Get-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Client Frontend.' Set-ReceiveConnector -Fqdn mail.contoso.com How do you know this step worked? To verify that you've successfully the FQDN on the 'Client Frontend ' Receive connector, use either of the following procedures:. the EAC, go to Mail flow Receive connectors select Client Frontend, click Edit ( ) Scoping, and verify the value in the FQDN field. In the Exchange Management Shell, run the following command: Get-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Client Frontend.' Format-List Name,Fqdn Step 2: Use the Exchange Management Shell to specify the certificate that's used to encrypt authenticated SMTP client connections The certificate needs to match or contain the FQDN value that you specified in the previous step, and the POP3 and SMTP clients need to trust the certificate, which likely means a certificate from a commercial certification authority. For more information, see.
Also, you need to assign the certificate to the Exchange SMTP service. For more information, see.
To specify the certificate that's used for authenticated SMTP client connections, use the following syntax: $TLSCert = Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint $TLSCertName = '$($TLSCert.Issuer)$($TLSCert.Subject)' Get-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Client Frontend.' Set-ReceiveConnector -TlsCertificateName $TLSCertName This example uses the certificate that has the thumbprint value 434AC2B26521298CE8834C514856AB.
$TLSCert = Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint 434AC2B26521298CE8834C514856AB $TLSCertName = '$($TLSCert.Issuer)$($TLSCert.Subject)' Get-ReceiveConnector -Identity 'Client Frontend.' Set-ReceiveConnector -TlsCertificateName $TLSCertName How do you know this step worked?