You cannot edit an existing email account to switch its account type from POP3 to IMAP or vice versa. If you have any doubt or questions, please contact Heroic Support® for guidance. Removing an email account from a mail client also will remove all messages associated with it on the device and, specifically for POP accounts that are not configured to retain mail on the server, there may be no way to recover those messages. WARNING: To avoid data loss, please use caution any time you change an email account’s connection type or delete an email account.Otherwise, skip ahead to Step #5: Configure General Settings. If you’re editing an email account that already has been configured in Outlook, click on the account name and then click on the Change button.Select the radio button for POP or IMAP.
Not the right version of Microsoft Outlook? Check out How to Set up Email in Outlook 2013 or How To Set up Email on Microsoft Outlook 2010.If these instructions don’t quite work for you, check out our tutorial on setting up other e-mail clients.These instructions are intended specifically for setting up an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2016.