No pop3 support on Microsoft 8.1 in office outlook. AT&T will charge me for

[efhmc]

the technical support to connect my account. If they have the info, then it must be out there somewhere for free. Any suggestions?

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Add a new account to Outlook, select POP3

Use the following settings for the POP3 connection:

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401570&cv=803#fbid=LTwGmM94Jmv

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401573#fbid=LTwGmM94Jmv

[efhmc]

2. Micosoft 8.1 does not support any pop3 servers.

[ChromeFoundry]

3. Ok, we are talking Microsoft's Mail app shipped with Windows 8.1

They did away with Outlook Express a while ago. You can get a copy of Microsoft Office Outlook (not the same as Outlook Express) or download one of the many free third-party apps out there that do support POP3.

[efhmc]

8. Done. Thanks fo your help.

[ManiacJoe]

4. Windows 8 Mail app: no POP3

Outlook does POP3 no problem.

[efhmc]

5. First of all I want you to know that you are the best for trying to help me.

I so appreciate it. Perhaps I am not being clear or am just unable to get the difference. Here is the explanation for what is going on: "Millions of users have email accounts that rely on POP3 mail servers. Many ISPs even give their users POP accounts by default, but don’t tell that to Microsoft as the company steadfastly refuses to support POP3 in Windows 8′s built-in email.

You have no particular obligation to use the built-in Windows Mail, but it is currently the only email client for Modern UI. You can install any of dozens of desktop email applications including Windows Live Essentials mail, Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. However, if you want to use the built-in Mail with a POP account, there’s a workaround that involves routing your messages through an online service such as Gmail, Hotmail or Outlook.com."
I need and want to use my old at&t account with my current address but can't figure out how to do it. So far I am just using my old computer.

[efhmc]

6. Well, I did manage to add the account to outlook 2013 and used all the settings from the account

on the old windows 7 computer and still doesn't work, but now I do understand the difference. I just still can't get it to work.

[ChromeFoundry]

7. Supposedly...

AT&T does support the IMAP protocol, unless I am looking at an outdated article:

Protocol: IMAP
Inbound Server imap.mail.att.net
Port: 993
SSL Connection Required: Yes

Outbound SMTP Server: smtp.mail.att.net
Port: 465
SSL Connection Required: Yes

http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=33462&cv=820#fbid=LTwGmM94Jmv

[efhmc]

9. Finally got all of the right settings by using my old computer.

Needed to hit the ssl button, which I had overlooked about 100 times. And it worked!!! Thanks again for your help.