Tiger Technologies Technical Support

Do your servers support IMAP?

IMAP is a relatively new method of connecting to a server and reading incoming mail. Many modern e-mail programs support IMAP as well as the older POP3 standard.

We usually recommend that our customers use the more popular and simpler POP3 method. However, our servers do also fully support IMAP, including SSL encrypted IMAP.

The instructions we provide for POP mailboxes also apply to IMAP mailboxes. When you create a "POP mailbox", the mailbox on our server can actually be read using either a POP3 or IMAP connection.

To set up your mail program to use IMAP, you'd use the same server name, username, password, etc. The only changes are the connection method (choose IMAP instead of POP) and the port number of the incoming mail server (port 143 instead of port 110).

IMAP settings for particular programs

These pages explain how to set up IMAP for some mail programs:

Technical details

Technically advanced users may be interested in the following:

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Related Topics

POP Mailboxes

Reading E-Mail in a Web Browser

IMAP for Outlook Express

IMAP for Outlook 2002 and 2003

IMAP for Windows Live Mail

IMAP for Mac OS X Mail

IMAP for Mozilla Thunderbird