Can M$ Outlook be set up for regular mail like Gmail or Yahoo Mail?

Can M$ Outlook be set up for regular mail like Gmail or Yahoo Mail?
Or does it have to be a Microsoft Mail account?
(I don't have a Microsoft account.)

On 22/07/2019 11:09:56, Guadalupe wrote:
Can M$ Outlook be set up for regular mail like Gmail or Yahoo Mail?
Or does it have to be a Microsoft Mail account?
(I don't have a Microsoft account.)

Yes, you can use pop3 or imap.
You don't need a Microsoft account.

Search Google for:
get yahoo mail in outlook using pop3
or
get yahoo mail in outlook using imap
and
get gmail mail in outlook using pop3
or
get gmail mail in outlook using imap

--
mick

"Guadalupe" wrote

| Can M$ Outlook be set up for regular mail like Gmail or Yahoo Mail?
| Or does it have to be a Microsoft Mail account?
| (I don't have a Microsoft account.)

"Regular" email is email sent and received with email
software. What you're talking about is usually called
"webmail" -- email adapted to be viewed in a browser.

Originally, all email was using POP3 for receiving
and SMTP for sending. It's a different communication
protocol from http used in webpages. It used to be that
email was intended to be deleted from the server. ISPs
didn't want people using a lot of space to store email
they'd already read. That was in the old days, before
companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft hit upon
the idea of providing free email through a browser,
accessible anywhere, with a profit strategy of spyware
and targetted ads.

These days most email accounts can be used as normal
email or as webmail. POP3 and IMAP are similar, but POP3
deletes email it downloads by default. Webmail is when you
read and send email through a browser. It's less private and
less secure, but more convenient if you often access email
from computers other than your own.

Free, adware, webmail accounts default to browser view
but most can also be accessed through an email program
using IMAP or POP3. They default to webmail version
because a browser window makes it easier to track your
usage, show you ads, access email from different computers,
and prevent encryption of your sent messages. It's all
about convenience and data collection for targetted ads.

Non-adware email accounts, from your ISP or that you pay
for, usually default to using email software, but these days
most can also be accessed via browser.

So you can set up as an account
in Outlook and you can also use
through a Comcast webpage. To set up POP3 or IMAP you
just have to go to the website of the provider and find the
specs needed in your email software. That includes port
numbers, names, encryption status, etc. For example,
your outgoing email might be port 587 and the server name
might be smtp.acme.com. Your incoming port might be 110
and the server name might be pop3.acme.com. You might
log on as or just as "youremail". For
the account to work you have to make sure those settings
are correct. There's no standard. you just have to get the
details from the email provider.

If you want better privacy then you want to use POP3
with a "regular" email account that you pay for or get from
your ISP. If you're using free webmail from Google or Yahoo
you have little or no control over their access to your email
content and probably can't actually delete it from the server.
But you can try by setting up POP3 and having it autodelete
email.

If you don't care about privacy then you might want to
set up an IMAP account in Outlook, to ensure that all of
your email arrives in all of the locations where you read it
and that none gets deleted.

Most freebie accounts require that you periodically log
in using the webpage version. That's how they make their
money. I don't know whether gmail requires that.

In article , Mayayana
wrote:


"Regular" email is email sent and received with email
software. What you're talking about is usually called
"webmail" -- email adapted to be viewed in a browser.

nothing is adapted.

webmail is just another way to access email, one which is very
convenient. it's just as reliable and secure as other options, and in
some cases, more so.

Originally, all email was using POP3 for receiving
and SMTP for sending. It's a different communication
protocol from http used in webpages. It used to be that
email was intended to be deleted from the server. ISPs
didn't want people using a lot of space to store email
they'd already read. That was in the old days, before
companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft hit upon
the idea of providing free email through a browser,
accessible anywhere, with a profit strategy of spyware
and targetted ads.

there are many other email providers than just those, ones who offer
webmail and do *not* show ads, and google stopped showing ads several
years ago anyway.

These days most email accounts can be used as normal
email or as webmail. POP3 and IMAP are similar, but POP3
deletes email it downloads by default. Webmail is when you
read and send email through a browser. It's less private and
less secure, but more convenient if you often access email
from computers other than your own.

false. webmail is comparable or more secure than an email client,
particularly if accessing from someone else's computer.

Free, adware, webmail accounts default to browser view
but most can also be accessed through an email program
using IMAP or POP3. They default to webmail version
because a browser window makes it easier to track your
usage, show you ads, access email from different computers,
and prevent encryption of your sent messages. It's all
about convenience and data collection for targetted ads.

no. they default to webmail because it's easy and convenient, and many
of them do *not* show ads.

Non-adware email accounts, from your ISP or that you pay
for, usually default to using email software, but these days
most can also be accessed via browser.

in other words, webmail is just another email client.

So you can set up as an account
in Outlook and you can also use
through a Comcast webpage. To set up POP3 or IMAP you
just have to go to the website of the provider and find the
specs needed in your email software. That includes port
numbers, names, encryption status, etc. For example,
your outgoing email might be port 587 and the server name
might be smtp.acme.com. Your incoming port might be 110
and the server name might be pop3.acme.com. You might
log on as or just as "youremail". For
the account to work you have to make sure those settings
are correct. There's no standard. you just have to get the
details from the email provider.

there is a standard, however, there are numerous options.

If you want better privacy then you want to use POP3
with a "regular" email account that you pay for or get from
your ISP. If you're using free webmail from Google or Yahoo
you have little or no control over their access to your email
content and probably can't actually delete it from the server.
But you can try by setting up POP3 and having it autodelete
email.

If you don't care about privacy then you might want to
set up an IMAP account in Outlook, to ensure that all of
your email arrives in all of the locations where you read it
and that none gets deleted.

pop3 is obsolete. imap can do everything pop can do and much more, and
there is no privacy difference between the two.

Most freebie accounts require that you periodically log
in using the webpage version. That's how they make their
money. I don't know whether gmail requires that.

false, and it doesn't.