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BarryEB
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Dec 29, 2020

Outlook - Want both POP & IMAP account for same address

I have been using Outlook 2010 until it reached end of life recently. In it I was able to set up both a POP & IMAP account for the same email address. That way I could opt to not sign in to the POP a...
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gabrielerossi
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Sep 21, 2024

BarryEBit is still possible to setup pop3 and imap with the same email address in outlook 2019/365.

 

1st step is to disable the account wizard creator so you will get the good old configuration way, to do this just insert in the registry the following

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Setup]
"DisableOffice365SimplifiedAccountCreation"=dword:00000001

keep in mind that in this way you disable all new authentication modes depending on your email provider (try it to configure accounts in a different windows local user profile, so you get clearly what i mean) 

 

2nd step, depending on your email provider, you have to create a dedicated app password (as an example, gmail requires two factor authentication enabled, before you can configure password for old apps) 

 

3rd step, using the app password created in the second step, you can configure your account in the old classic way like in the old outlook versions  

 

i expect this way works untill your mail provider keep active POP3/IMAP mode to downloard or sync 

 

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