Hi there,

My partner and I have been using Outlook.com for many months now and overall, we are very happy with what it offfers (mail, calendar, Skydrive etc.)

However, we have recently purchased an iMac and will soon be looking to buy iPhones.  If our understanding is correct, Outlook.com does not operate using IMAP, which is preventing us from using the Mail application on our iMac. 

Having researched this topic a little it seems that Microsoft intend to enable IMAP for Outlook.com but at present, there is no timescale. 

Is this correct?  We want to have all of our emails etc. synchronising across various devices and would be reluctant to change our email accounts to another provider as we like Outlook.com - but - if there is no foreseeable IMAP introduction for Outlook.com then we will have to consider alternatives.  Gmail appears to work on IMAP and emails sent to/from our iMac sync perfectly.

Any help and/or information on this would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.