Zoho Mail Settings: POP3, IMAP, and SMTP Servers

Zoho Mail SMTP Settings

Luckily, if your SMTP settings are correct, you won't have trouble getting it up and running. Use the Zoho Mail server settings shown below to send messages from any email client.

Zoho Mail Client Settings For Receiving Email

Using POP, or Post Office Protocol, you may access your emails in any email client of your liking. POP is a one-way email retrieval protocol that does not allow client-server synchronization. You may use any normal POP email client to configure Zoho email server settings with the correct POP and SMTP server settings.

Zoho Mail POP settings

Zoho Mail IMAP Settings

To replace POP, you can utilize the Internet Message Access Protocol.

Notes and Additional Information

Before establishing IMAP in any other email client, you must first enable IMAP Access for your account. To get started, you may check out this link for detailed instructions.

Ask your administrator to see if IMAP Access gets authorized for Organization accounts according to email regulations.

Your IMAP client must create and utilize the Application-specific Password if your account got set up for two-factor authentication.

If you don't have a unique password for your Zoho mailbox, you're a user of Federated Sign In (such as Google Apps, Gmail, or Facebook). To create a strong password for your account, follow the steps outlined in this article. For POP/IMAP/Active Sync, you cannot 'Sign In' with your external account.

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POP3 vs. IMAP: What’s The Difference

You may access your emails in third-party software like Outlook, Thunderbird, etc., via IMAP or POP. Email protocols are determined by how you intend to access your emails.

You must choose between POP3 and IMAP when creating an account in an email client. You can access your email accounts via Zoho Mail settings or another client using either of these methods.

With IMAP, the message is not accessible to the user on the server, but it is accessible to all other IMAP-enabled devices. On the other hand, POP3 connects and tries to keep the mail on the local device, whereas IMAP does not (computer or mobile).

IMAP is a great option for people who often check, react to, and send emails from different devices. When you modify Zoho Mail settings or your email account (such as adding a folder), the server and any devices you use to access that mailbox gets updated automatically.

You should not be concerned about losing your emails if something happens to your computer or phone because the originals are still on your mail server.

However, if you’d like to have all of your emails (including attachments) available even if you don't have access to the Internet, POP will ensure that you always have them. When you get a message, it gets saved on your device. If something happens to your device, all of your previously downloaded or viewed emails will be lost unless you've set up POP to keep them on the server instead of deleting them.

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