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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...
Unfortunately, in the current version of Outlook (Microsoft 365), you cannot directly set up both POP and IMAP accounts for the same email address within the same profile, you may create different Outlook profile to handle
Correct, that changed several years ago with the introduction of Outlook 2013.
I have found one way to trick it, but only if you have two aliases on the account. Add the account then change the From address to the second alias. Add the account again.
I have not tried changing the From address on the first account back to the original - I did it to add an iCloud+ custom alias to Outlook along with my iCloud address.
The steps I used are in this article: