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I just received an email about new settings for accessing my Verizon email accounts. I'm very pleased that Verizon is implementing SSL for both inbound and outbound mail, but there are no IMAP settings given for the new inbound server, pop.verizon.net, and using the standard settings for IMAP and SSL doesn't work. Why isn't this being supported?

Many people use multiple email clients -- desktop, smartphone, tablet, and web interface (like Gmail, for example). IMAP is much better for this than POP. We need this service! Can someone at Verizon please notify management that this is what some of your customers want?

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Hubrisnxs

Not sure why, but Verizon has said no they won't be doing IMAP email.

They state in this community suggested idea the following

"IMAP e-mail"

Status: Not Likely
We have strategically chosen POP3 Email architecture to minimize storage costs. Please know that each master email account has 2GB of storage and if the user does not POP their email, the email is accessible from anywhere with internet access via myverizon.com.

I ended up getting outlook.com for that very reason and it came with 7GB's of skydrive online service free.

lambanlaa

I think changing the mail servers to pop.verizon.net and smtp.verizon.net are precursors to Verizon finally offering IMAP.

Just a feeling I get...

tns2

@lambanlaa wrote:
I think changing the mail servers to pop.verizon.net and smtp.verizon.net are precursors to Verizon finally offering IMAP.
Just a feeling I get...

Lets see servers renamed pop and SMTP. And you think they wil offer IMAP? No Way.

jpbriant

Up.
any news ?

Waytron

I don't really understand why Verizon does not offer some form of IMAP email. In todays world of having multiple devices such as computers, Smart Phones and Tablets, POP email is almost worthless. I gave my wife an ipad for Christmas and she refuses to use it because when she goes thru her email on the ipad and reads and deletes items, they do not delete on her computer and she has to go thru them all over again.

I am trying to get her to switch to a gmail account which works perfectly with mutliple email devices or we may switch to Comcast who now offers IMAP accounts.

Shame on you Verizon... You are so far behind in this technology and in your constant effort to try and keep customers using your Internet Service, you should really update your technology.

xuesheng

I'm also thinking of moving away from Verizon for this reason.

The absence of IMAP is ridiculous.

JGraham17

Try having a new Galaxy S5 that keeps pullingthe same 50 emails in everytime it refreshes email. I delete and bam same 50 again in 2 hours.. So I am deleteing same email every 2 hours.. Kinda worthless even having email on my phone! Imap would elimate the email from server preventing it from being pulled to my phone every 2 hours!

Hotkey

That is a Galaxy S5 problem ... not a Verizon POP mail problem.

I will admit, I get the same eMail across multiple devices ... and I have to delete it off of multiple devices. HOWEVER, I don't get the same eMail over and over and over ON THE SAME DEVICE. That's a Galaxy S5 problem. There is probably a bit you have turned on that you need to turn off.

sawyer4815

Why doesn't Verizon provide access to the IMAP protocol. I just talked to customer service and they blew off my question about whether it would be provided in the future.

CherzArt

Including Verizon, I use 6 accounts in Apple Mail. Every other account uses iMap. Verizon is so behind in this, I also hate having constantly to remove same spam over and over on the iPad and iPhone like someone already mentioned .

I will take Verizon off my Apple Mail and tell my friends to use another account.

In fact, I will probably change to another provider for internet and land line!

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bobbyi07004

Verizon email does not work with Microsoft Windows 8 because it does not have an IMAP or Exchange option. Verizon's answer that anyone can access email through the website is off base.. Without being able to set up a normal email account, I can't forward items saved on my computer through the built in email serv ice in windows.... who cares about the verizon web email site.... it is not a good site and is slow to respond.

This shortfall witl force me to change my personal email account. When I do, I willl also switch over my internet serfvice, phone service and TV service to a provider that is up to speed. Smart move Verizon!!

tns2

Verizon email does not support IMAP. It doesn't work with the default eMail app in Windows 8/8.1. Other apps including Microsoft Live Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird work on Windows 8/8.1 and do work with Verizon Email.

For POP3, last I saw statistics, there were as many users of pop3 as Imap. The drastic increase of the popularity has more to do with mobile devices (phones/tablets). But there are negatives to do with IMAP for use when you cannot access the Internet.

wkearney991

What "negatives" of using IMAP when offline?

Most clients support having a local store for messages, just as they would for POP3. The difference is, with IMAP you're not stuck with ONLY your local POP3 storage. The messages remain safely available on the IMAP server, regardless of client you're using to read them.

Yes, IMAP requires that the server have sufficient storage to hold all the mail. Shame Verizon hasn't gotten their act together and stepped up to the same levels of service offered by, well, EVERY other provider.

That they STILL don't offer IMAP, at all, is ridiculous.

tns2

Most people using smartphones do think to download all their email. They count on IMAP and constant access.

Alan9949

There is a generic app I downloaded that uses pop. It's called anymail. Works great

rick123451

Vz does not care about their customers until they start loosing them. As much as I hate POP I might be able to live with it if VZ had more than a 2 cent spam filter that was. I get blasted every day about the same time by the same spam. I mark it as spam but 2/3 still goes through. When I'm using my iPhone I want to check my e-mails quickly buy I can't because of all of the spam. double shame on Vz

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