If you are using Microsoft Online Services and for any user if you want to enable POP3 to access emails (for wxample in case they are using any mail client other than Microsoft Outlook) – you will find difficult to move. By default in Microsoft Online Services both in Exchange Online Standard and BPOS – the POP 3 is disabled.
How to enable POP3 with Microsoft Online Services / BPOS?
To enable you have to either raise a Service request with Microsoft or you can use Powershell to make the changes yourself. Using Powershell will require admin credentials. Here are some simple Powershell commands to enable the POP3 in Microsoft Online Services
Enable POP using Powershell
Get the admin credentials
$AdminCreds = Get-Credential
To enable POP 3
Enable-MSOnlinePOPAccess -Identity [-Quite] -Credential
Here replace the full email id of your user in place of .
To disable POP 3
Disable-MSOnlinePOPAccess -Identity [-Quite] -Credential
POP3 access was one of the common need which can now be addressed without contacting Microsoft Online Support.
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To enable pop access use:
Enable-MSOnlinePOPaccess -identity
You will be asked for your credentials.
Following that, system will respond with a message and other information.
This and after spending days trying to make this work. Finally at MS someone with some crib notes had the answer.
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