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Sometimes it’s hard, if not impossible to find even the most Popular Mail Servers and their configuration, for use with your email program (I.E. Mozilla’s Thunderbird, Qualcomm’s Eudora, Microsoft’s Outlook, or etc.).

I found myself with this issue recently. I decided to move all my mail accounts to my Macintosh. This included GMAIL, MSN and other traditional web accounts. I could continue using the web based mail if I wanted to, however there are way more options and you have a lot more control with email software versus the traditional web based email system. So, I started digging to find the mail servers I needed.

I found some of what I needed in an article posted on the Real Life Web Designs, web site. (If you would like to view the original article you can click here.) I added a little to the list and made sure to link back to information from the original article, where it applies.

When you are searching the Popular Mail Servers listed below, don’t forget you will need to know what port numbers, secure connection settings and encryption levels, if your email account uses them. (POP3 over SSL uses incoming mail port 995 instead of 110. SMTP accounts using TLS may use outgoing mail port 587 instead of 25.)

1&1
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.1and1.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.1and1.com

Adelphia
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.adelphia.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.adelphia.net

Ameritech (SBC/Yahoo!)
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.ameritech.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mailhost.det.ameritech.net

AT&T WorldNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): postoffice.worldnet.att.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mailhost.worldnet.att.net

AOL
Incoming Mail Server (POP3):
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.aol.com

Bell Atlantic
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.bellatlantic.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): gtei.bellatlantic.net

BellSouth
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.bellsouth.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.bellsouth.net

BlueLight
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.bluelight.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.bluelight.net

Cableone
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.cableone.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): authmail.cableone.net

Charter
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.charter.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.charter.net

Comcast
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.comcast.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net

CompaqNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.compaq.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.compaq.net

CompuServe
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.compuserve.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.compuserve.com

Concentric
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.concentric.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.concentric.net

Cox Central
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.central.cox.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.central.cox.net

Cox East
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.east.cox.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.east.cox.net

Cox West
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.west.cox.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.west.cox.net

Cypress Communications
Incoming Mail Server (POP3):
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.cypresscom.net

Dotster
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.registerapi.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtpauth.registerapi.com

Earthlink
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.earthlink.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.earthlink.net, smtpauth.earthlink.net

GoDaddy
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.godaddy.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): (use your ISP’s SMTP mail server)

Google (GMail)
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

HughesNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.hughes.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.hughes.net

Internet America
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.airmail.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.airmail.net

IX Web Hosting
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.ix.netcom.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.ix.netcom.com

Juno
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.juno.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.juno.com

Lycos
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.lycos.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.lycos.com (or, use your ISP’s SMTP mail server)

Mac.com
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.mac.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mac.com

Mail.com
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop1.mail.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): (use your ISP’s SMTP mail server)

Mediacom
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.mchsi.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mindspring.com

MegaPath
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.megapathdsl.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.megapathdsl.net

Mindspring
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mindspring.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mindspring.com

Mpower Communications
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mpowercom.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mpowercom.net

MSN
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.email.msn.com or pop3.live.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.email.msn.com or smtp.live.com

Netscape
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.isp.netscape.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.isp.netscape.com

NetZero
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.netzero.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.netzero.net

oneHOST
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.emailworx.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtpsecure.emailworx.net

PacBell
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): postoffice.pacbell.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.pacbell.net

Pacifier
Incoming Mail Server (POP3):
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.pacifier.com

PeoplePC
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.peoplepc.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtpauth.peoplepc.com

Pipeline
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.pipeline.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.pipeline.com

Prodigy
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.prodigy.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.prodigy.net

RLWD Web Services
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.yourfulldomainname
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtpout.secureserver.net

Rediff
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.rediffmailpro.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.rediffmailpro.com

SBC Global Ameritech
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.ameritech.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.ameritech.yahoo.com

SBC Global
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.flash.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.flash.yahoo.com

SBC Global NVBell
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.nvbell.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.nvbell.yahoo.com

SBC Global Pacbell
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.pacbell.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com

SBC Global Prodigy
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.sbcglobal.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtpauth.prodigy.net

SBC Global SNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.snet.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.snet.yahoo.com

SBC Global SWBell
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.swbell.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.swbell.yahoo.com

SBC Global Wans
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.wans.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.wans.yahoo.com

SBC Global Yahoo!
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com

Seanet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.seanet.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mx.seanet.com

ServNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3):
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mx.serv.net

SpeakEasy
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.speakeasy.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.speakeasy.net

SprintPCS
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.sprintpcs.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.sprintpcs.com

Sprynet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.sprynet.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.sprynet.com

Starpower
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.starpower.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.starpower.net

The River
Incoming Mail Server (POP3):
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.theriver.com

Time Warner/Road Runner
View Time Warner/Road Runner pop3 and smtp mail servers by clicking here.

Toucan
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.toucansurf.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.toucansurf.com

USA.net
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.netaddress.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.postoffice.net

Verizon
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): incoming.verizon.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): outgoing.verizon.net

View more Verizon pop3 and smtp mail server information by clicking here.

VisiNet
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.visinet.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.visinet.net

WildBlue
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.wildblue.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.wildblue.net

WHRO.net
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.whro.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.whro.net

Yahoo
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com

If you find all this information a bit much to comprehend I completely understand. Use the comments area to ask questions, add server information to the list or to post updated server information for items already listed.