Access your Bellsouth Email Account with Important POP and IMAP Settings

| Updated on February 13, 2024

Bellsouth, formerly known as BellSouth Corporation, is an American telecommunications company that is known for email services. If you have set up your BellSouth email account, you must know how amazing it works with all those advanced features. You can also set up your Bellsouth email account on Outlook or any other third-party email client to manage your email accounts better. This will let you access all your emails without logging into your Bellsouth.net email account

To configure your Bellsouth email account on third-party email services, or on your Android or iPhone devices, you will need to enter email settings for Bellsouth.net. Mainly, there are two types of servers to choose from: POP and IMAP

Given below are the bellsouth.net email settings that you have to enter while configuring your Bellsouth email account on Outlook, a third-party email client or desktop program:

Bellsouth Email POP Settings

POP downloads all your emails by contacting your email service and after they are downloaded, they get completely deleted from the email service; that is how POP works. So, to access the emails after it has been downloaded, you can only access them using the same device. You won’t be able to access the messages on a different device that has been previously downloaded. There are a lot of email services that use POP.

Incoming Email Server account typePOP
Incoming Email Server usernameYour full Bellsouth.net email address
Incoming Email Server passwordYour Bellsouth.net email password
Incoming Email Server hostnamepop.mail.att.net
Incoming Email Server Port995
Outgoing Email Server Port465
Incoming Email Server TLS/SSL requiredYES
Authentication requiredYES (Email account Username and Password)

Notes

If the Bellsouth email account is not working on Outlook or you are facing login issues with your Bellsouth account, you can try resetting the password.

Bellsouth Email IMAP Settings

Using IMAP, you can access your emails from anywhere and that too from any device that you have. This is the benefit of using IMAP that you don’t have to download or store your emails on your computer as you can directly read them from the email service. To download a message while using IMAP, you have to click on it. Hence, using IMAP settings is a quicker way to access all your emails.

Incoming Email Server account typeIMAP
Incoming Email Server usernameYour full Bellsouth.net email address
Incoming Email Server passwordYour Bellsouth.net email password
Incoming Email Server hostnameimap.mail.att.net
Bellsouth.net Incoming Email Server Port993
Bellsouth.net Outgoing Email Server Port465
Bellsouth.net Incoming Email Server TLS/SSL requiredYES
Authentication requiredYES (Email account Username and Password) 


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