Windows Mail (IMAP)
To configure Windows Mail to send and receive email using our servers using IMAP, please follow the steps below. Please replace:
 | [email protected] with your email address example.com with your domain name |
1. Open Windows Mail.
2. Choose "Tools" -> "Accounts".
3. Click on "Add".
4. Select "E-mail Account".
Click on "Next".
5. In the "Display Name" field you should enter the name you would like to appear on the messages you send.
Click on the "Next" button.
6. Enter your e-mail address [email protected] in the "E-mail address" field.
Click on the "Next" button.
7. Set the type of the incoming mail server to IMAP.
For incoming and outgoing mail servers you should use mail.example.com
Mark the "Outgoing server requires authentication" option.
Click on the "Next" button.
8. Enter [email protected] in the "Account Name" field. In the "Password" field you need to enter the current password for this particular mailbox.
Click on the "Next" button.
9. Mark the "Do not download my e-mail and folders at this time" option.
Click on "Finish".
10. Select the account you have just created and click on "Properties".
11. Click on the "Advanced" tab and set the "Outgoing mail (SMTP)" port to 587.
12. Click on "IMAP" and enter the following value in the "Root folder path" text area: INBOX
Be sure to enter this value in capital letters.
Enter "Sent" in the "Sent Items path:" field, "Drafts" in the "Drafts path:" field, "Trash" in the "Deleted Items path:" field and "Junk Mail" in the "Junk path:" field.
Click on "OK".
13. Click on "Close". 
14. You will be prompted to download folders from the mail server you just added.
Click on "Yes".