IMAP EMAIL Frequently Asked Questions:

What is IMAP? IMAP stands for "Internet Message Access Protocol" - and is an email service which helps accessing your mailbox from different computers and locations. The mail is actually held on the server, rather than downloaded to your PC. This is great news if you have a computer problem and have to re-install your operating system from scratch, because your important mail will always be server side and no email loss will occur.

How do I access IMAP Mail? You can set up an Email client such as Outlook Express to read your IMAP mail. The mail does not get downloaded as such directly to your Outlook Express program, but can be read, deleted (purged) from the server should you not require it using the Email program.
You can access from webmail also, at http://webmail.supanames.com

What settings do I use to access IMAP mailboxes in an Email Client and at webmail?
Similar to your old POP3 mailbox settings, your username is the same as your mailbox name. For instance, this would be 'postmaster@your-domain-here'  replacing the 'your-domain-here' in our example with your own domain name, for your default 'postmaster' mailbox.
The mailserver address is different for IMAP compared to POP3 though.For IMAP you should use:

imap.your-domain-here

The password for your IMAP mailboxes is either your default account password, or whatever password you have assigned the mailbox in MyPanel, just the same as usual.

For step by step Outlook Express IMAP mailbox setup, please click here