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If you get errors using automatic confi guration, then try again with Automatically configure account unchecked. You can then manually configure the account. When you manually configure an email account, you are given the opportunity to select the type of account (POP, IMAP, or Exchange), enter incoming and outgoing mail server addresses, POP or IMAP protocols, port addresses, and email encryption. 8th Edition, page 1031
SMTP is the outgoing mail server protocol required to send your email messages from your email account to another. If you are going to configure your email account on any client, you will need to know the provider's email settings. The Hostgator SMTP settings only work for outgoing messages. The incoming protocols are POP and IMAP that are responsible for receiving email messages. The steps to configure your Hostgator email account using SMTP settings in Mozilla Thunderbird are given below.Step : 1 Launch the Thunderbird application and go to the Tools menu. Select Accounts Settings.Step : 2 Now, click the Account Actions option and select Add Mail Account.Step : 3 When prompted for confirmation, click Continue.Step : 4 Type your Hostgator email address and name. Click Continue.Step : 5 Select the Manual Configuration option.Step : 6 Choose either IMAP or POP as your account type.Step : 7 Enter the incoming server credentials correctly to configure your Hostgator email account.
pop & imap
Google uses IMAP protocol for email. It is because of better security settings. Gmail has tried to improve it's security settings everyday.
Because of pop, imap and smtp
Internet Message Access Protocol(IMAP) was developed by Mark Crispin in 1986. It is a protocol for email retrieval and storage as an alternative to POP.
The three common protocols to obtain email from a server are: POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange.
imap
Because IMAP stores email on the server side and POP does not, IMAP requires more storage space than POP does.
POP
IMAP and POP.
For POP and IMAP email systems, you will need to know their inbound address, outbound address, your username and password, as well as any required authentication settings methods they may have setup.