How do I know whether i have a POP3 or IMAP server and a SMTP server?

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I have no idea what type of email that i have. The setup asks for whether I have a POP3 or IMAP server and the address of it. I don't even know what that means. The email I have is based from my school: albany.edu. The address I use to access the mail is https://webmail.albany.edu/src/login.php How do I figure out how to set up my Outlook? Also, I have another email address based on www.aol.com that I would also like to connect. How do I set that one up as well? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 
1. Ask your school mail admin for that information - no one here would
know.
2. AOL and Outlook do not play well together since AOL uses a proprietary
non-standard mail system.

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Laura <[email protected]> asked:

| I have no idea what type of email that i have. The setup asks for
| whether I have a POP3 or IMAP server and the address of it. I don't
| even know what that means. The email I have is based from my school:
| albany.edu. The address I use to access the mail is
| https://webmail.albany.edu/src/login.php How do I figure out how to
| set up my Outlook? Also, I have another email address based on
| www.aol.com that I would also like to connect. How do I set that one
| up as well? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 
You'll have to ask your school's internet people what type of e-mail you
have and what the server names are. Did they give you any kind of
instruction manual or a link to a website that might give you this
information?

As for your AOL account, you can't connect that directly to Outlook -- AOL
doesn't provide any mechanism for this. However, there are some third party
add-ins that may work for you. Check them out here:

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/services/online.htm#aol

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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Laura said:
I have no idea what type of email that i have. The setup asks for whether
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I have a POP3 or IMAP server and the address of it. I don't even know what
that means. The email I have is based from my school: albany.edu. The
address I use to access the mail is https://webmail.albany.edu/src/login.php
How do I figure out how to set up my Outlook? Also, I have another email
address based on www.aol.com that I would also like to connect. How do I
set that one up as well? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 
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