Use Outlook.com or Gmail While Mail itself doesn’t support POP3 accounts, it does support Outlook.com and Gmail accounts. Both Outlook.com and Gmail have a built-in feature that fetches mail from a POP3 server and stores it in your webmail inbox. If you configure one of these services to access your POP3 account, you can add the webmail account to the Mail app. To get started, visit or and create an account if you don’t already have one. Log into your account, click the gear icon at the top-right corner of either Outlook.com or Gmail, and select the Settings option. On Outlook.com, click the Sending/receiving email from other accounts link.

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On Gmail, click the Accounts and Import tab. On Outlook.com, click the Add an email account link. On Gmail, click the Add a POP3 mail account you own link. Continue through either process and add your POP3 account details as if you were adding them to the Mail app itself. You’ll need to know your email address, password, the POP3 server’s address, and the port it uses. After you’re done, Outlook.com or Gmail will automatically fetch new email and place it in your webmail inbox. Add Your Outlook.com or Gmail Account Go back into the Windows 8 Mail app and open the Settings charm.

You can do this by pressing Windows Key+I or by swiping in from the right and tapping Settings. Select the Accounts option and tap or click Add an Account. Select Outlook or Google – whichever type of account you used above – and sign into the account with your username and password. The Mail app will now display the mail from your POP3 account, which is fetched by your Outlook or Gmail accounts. You’ll see new emails appear on the Start screen.

Sending Mail Unfortunately, this solution doesn’t give you any way to send email from the POP3 address. POP3 servers are generally paired with SMTP servers. In a normal desktop email program, you could add the SMTP server to send outgoing email from your email account’s address. You can send emails from your POP3 account from the Outlook.com or Gmail interface – but not from within the Mail app. To get around this, you can read your email in the modern Mail app and use a separate interface to reply to and send emails – either a desktop email program like Outlook or the Outlook.com or Gmail websites. You could also reply to people from within the Mail app – recipients will see mail as coming from your @outlook.com or @gmail.com email address, however.

Make sure they expect emails coming from that address. The Mail app may be slick, but the omission of POP3 may be a deal breaker for some people – IMAP and Exchange Active Sync (EAS) may be the future, but that’s little consolation to people with POP3 accounts in the present. This isn’t an ideal solution – but it’s the best we can do with the Windows 8 Mail app. In the long-term, we’ll probably see email apps that support POP3 in the Windows Store.

Saigonblack wrote: Thanks for all the reply, im using Outlook on my laptop, and using iphone to read. So i reckon my incoming and outgoing is mail.abc.com.sg right? In dat case, start outlook tools - e-mail accounts - select 'view or change existing e-mail accounts' - select the email account and click 'change' - under server information u will see ur POP3 and SMTP servers.

Leave the screen there and go to ur iPhone now and follow the steps below - once done just click 'cancel' 1) go to ur iPhone settings to set up ur email settings. 2) select 'others' and key in all the required info on the first screen and press 'save'. 3) next screen is where u key in the info u found in outlook above. Make sure u select 'POP' on the top. (POP should be blue in colour).

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Press 'save'. 4) u may encounter a SSL certificate error, proceed next step. If there is no error den ur email should be set up and ready for use.

5) if u get the error, select 'cancel' and press 'save' again. IPhone will now prompt u a message saying 'mail might not be received.blah blah blah'.and an option will be popped out for u to edit or save. Just select 'save'. 6) now, after saving u should be back at the Settings page with ur email account set up.

Select the email account u just set up. 7) scroll to the bottom and select 'advance' 8) make sure SSL is 'on' and leave the screen there 9) now go back to ur outlook and click 'more settings' 10) select the 'advanced' tab. U will see ur server port numbers. Look for the incoming server port number. Should be '110'. Enter the port number u see in the outlook into the iPhone 11) another thing to note is make sure the 'delete from server' is set to 'never'.

So that only a copy of the mail is being downloaded to ur iPhone and the original email still stays in ur email server until u use ur laptop to download the emails when u r in office. 12) once done u exit back to 'Settings' page and ur email on ur iPhone should be working liao. To test, use any other web based email and send an email to ur office email. Wait for a while den click on ur mail app in ur iPhone and it should check for new emails and receive the email u just send to ur office email. As for outlook, jus press 'cancel' all the way so u wun change anything accidentally.