The Best Free POP and IMAP Email Services

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Many free webmail services offer POP or IMAP access, allowing you to quickly and securely download your email to an email client like Outlook, Mail, or Thunderbird. We compare email services that support POP and IMAP, then select our favorites based on ease of use, compatibility, and features. Here are our picks for the top six free POP and IMAP email services.

Note: IMAP and POP are email protocols that you can use to access your email. Email clients use a variety of protocols to send and receive email.

01- Best Overall: Gmail


Gmail is Google's approach to email and chat. Generous free online storage lets you collect your messages, and Gmail's simple yet smart interface helps you find messages and view them in context with ease. Gmail places contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

Gmail offers powerful access to your IMAP and POP mail servers, making it easy to access Gmail with an email client.

02- Best for Business Users: Zoho Workplace


 Zoho Workplace (formerly Zoho Mail) is a robust email service with plenty of storage and access via POP or IMAP. There is also useful integration with online office and instant messaging packages.

Aimed at business users, Zoho Workplace is a useful tool for organizing emails, identifying important messages and contacts, and sending frequently used replies.

Sign up for a free account or upgrade to a Standard ($3 per month) or Professional ($6 per month) account and get additional storage and other features.

03- Best For a Sleek Interface: Outlook.com


Outlook.com is Microsoft's free webmail service. It's not as comprehensive as Microsoft's paid services like Outlook for Microsoft 365 or Outlook 2019. Still, Outlook.com is a sleek, easy-to-use, and secure webmail service.

Outlook.com offers POP and IMAP access, making it easy to add your Outlook.com account to a desktop email client.

04- Best for Organization and Efficiency: Yahoo Mail



Yahoo Mail is a free, streamlined email app that offers 1TB of free storage. It's stable, responsive, and organized, with a wide range of customization options and tools aimed at providing a tidy inbox.

Yahoo Mail supports POP and IMAP, so you can easily connect your email client to your Yahoo Mail account.

05- Best for Personalization: AOL Mail


AOL Mail is AOL's free web-based email service, known for its unlimited online storage, strong spam protection, and elegant, easy-to-use interface. AOL Mail's many customization options include keyboard shortcuts, panel removal, view customization, folder organization, and more. It's easy to use POP or IMAP to sync AOL Mail with your email client.

06- Best for the Apple Universe: iCloud Mail


iCloud Mail is Apple's free email service with plenty of storage, IMAP access, and a sleek and functional web app.

The iCloud Mail interface doesn't offer labels or other advanced tools for email productivity and organization, doesn't support access to other email accounts, and isn't accessible via POP. However, if you're in the Apple universe, a free iCloud Mail account is a handy tool to use with IMAP access.

Note: When you create an iCloud Mail email address, you access your iCloud Mail email from the Mail app on your iOS device or from Outlook on a Windows 10 computer.

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