I mean it's in paragraph 1 of the Wikipedia article for IMAP that it's only for 
receiving email so you'd hope an email provider's tech support would know it ;) 

On June 27, 2016 12:38:52 AM GMT+01:00, Pjh42 <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks. When I tried to use smtp, they sent me an email saying I had to
>use IMAP! 
>
>
>
>
>On June 26, 2016 7:31:58 PM EDT, Philip Whitehouse <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>On 2016-06-27 00:18, Peter Holsberg wrote:
>>> In trying to configure a fastmail.fm account, incoming doesn't say
>>> either IMAP or POP (it lets me enter the IMAP server info) but
>>> outgoing says "SMTP Server". How can I change it to IMAP for the
>>> outgoing server?
>>
>>IMAP is only for receiving e-mail. IMAP can't and doesn't deal with 
>>sending e-mail. SMTP is the protocol used for sending e-mail.
>>
>>Fastmail's documentation is misleading here because it present SMTP 
>>after IMAP and POP, making it looking it's an alternative to those.
>>It's 
>>not. It's IMAP & SMTP or POP & SMTP.
>>
>>https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/servernamesandports.html
>>
>>- Philip Whitehouse
>>
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