Outlook IMAP Settings: Up-to-date list of all Outlook.com Email Settings (IMAP, POP3, SMTP)

Last verified: Jun 2024

Outlook.com Email Settings

Outlook.com (formerly known as Hotmail) is Microsoft's free personal email service. Thanks to it's generous storage capacity of 15 GB and an addition of 5 GB cloud storage, outlook.com is popular among private users and small businesses. Known for it's reliability, outlook.com ranks among the most popular free email services.

Many users who are new to outlook.com quite quickly wish to add their new email address to an email client such as the popular Outlook client or alternatives such as, e.g., Thunderbird. To do so, you must have the current outlook IMAP settings at hand. And even if you wish to transfer your existing email data to Outlook (or from outlook.com to another email provider), finding the current outlook.com email settings is the first step for a successful data migration.

Therefore, simply scroll down to find the current Outlook IMAP, POP and SMTP settings!

 

Easy Account Setup with the Current Outlook IMAP Settings:

Using an email client (e.g. Thunderbird or Outlook) makes email management extremely easy and effortless. Adding your email address to such client can sometimes cause a few headaches. To give you a head's start, simply follow our instructions below. With the current outlook.com email settings, your email address is set up in a few minutes!

 

Outlook IMAP Settings: Email Settings for Incoming Emails

Preferably, you add your outlook.com email address to your email client by using IMAP for incoming emails. To perform an email migration, also use these settings in combination with the email migration tool MailJerry.

IMAP Server	outlook.office365.com
IMAP Port	993
IMAP Security	TLS
Username	Your outlook.com email address
Password	Your Microsoft account password

 

Outlook.com Email Settings: SMTP Settings for Outgoing Emails

For your email client to be allowed to send emails using your outlook.com account, you need to add the SMTP settings below in the section for "outgoing emails":

SMTP Server	smtp-mail.outlook.com
SMTP Port	587
SMTP Security	STARTTLS
Username	Your outlook.com email address
Password	Your Microsoft account password

 

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Outlook.com Email Settings: Enable POP3

Instead of IMAP, you can also use POP for incoming emails (scroll down to learn the difference between POP and IMAP as well as it's advantages and disadvantages).

However, POP is disabled by default on Microsoft's servers, so you need to enable POP before you can use it with your outlook.com account:

How to enable POP for outlook.com:

1. Login to outlook.com and click on the Settings-Icon.
2. Now click on Mail and select Sync email
3. In the section Pop and IMAP, switch the option Let devices and apps use POP to YES.
4. Click on Save to confirm your changes.

Now you can access your outlook.com account using POP:

POP Server	outlook.office365.com
POP Port	995
POP Security	TLS
Username	Your outlook.com email address
Password	Your Microsoft account password

 

What is the difference between POP3 and IMAP?

When setting up your outlook.com email address, you can choose to use POP or IMAP for incoming emails.

Using IMAP for Incoming Emails:

• all changes made to an email (read it, delete it…) will be synchronised across all devices you're using the email address with (e.g. PC, tablet, smartphone…)
• emails are stored on Microsoft's mail servers
  
• if you loose your device, you're emails are still available

Using POP for Incoming Emails:

• the emails are downloaded to your device
• if you loose your device, your emails are lost (if you don't have a backup)
  POP saves disk space on the mail server, so you don't run out of storage capacity in your mailbox

➡️ For most use cases, IMAP is the better option as it gives you a lot of flexibility combined with the security that you don't have to worry about data loss. For very large mailboxes, however, POP could be a considerable option.

 

Migrate your emails from or to outlook.com

Did you decide to move your emails over to outlook.com? Or do you wish to migrate from outlook.com to another provider? What may seem like a complicated task is in fact very easy:

➡️ Download our email migrator or start your migration directly in the browser.

➡️ Launch MailJerry and select "New Migration".

➡️ Select the account type and fill in the email credentials for your existing email account in the "Existing Address" fields.

➡️ In the "New Address" section, select Microsoft / Office 365 as account type and connect your outlook.com account (or vice versa, in case you migrate from outlook.com to another account).

➡️ Click on "Check Settings", verify that everything is OK and start your migration by selection "Start Migration".

Wait for the email migration from / to Outlook to complete.

🎉 Congratulations! You can now access your previous emails in your new email account!