Hotmail on your Phone and PC

by Michael Aulia on 16 January, 2009

Hotmail If you have been using Hotmail as your main email account, this is the news that you’ve been waiting for for years. Hotmail account is now available to your phone and PC via POP3. In the past, you can’t simply retrieve your emails from your Hotmail account to your email client (whether it’s on your PC or on your phone).

At this time, however, the POP3 access is only available to Hotmail users in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Here are the Hotmail POP3 settings that you need to enter to set it up.

Hotmail POP3 Settings

POP server: pop3.live.com
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

This means that you can now have Hotmail on your Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or any other email client that you are using in your computer. If you are using Microsoft Outlook, however, I’d recommend you to install Outlook Connector to make your life easier (it’ll also grab & mange your contacts).

Outlook Connector

This official news can be read further on Windows Live Blog

Article by Michael Aulia

Michael is the proud owner of Craving Tech and so far has written 923 articles.

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bloggista 16 January, 2009 at 8:37 pm

This is great news Mike, however, pretty disppointing since it’s not available in my country. I have been wanting this kind of feature for the longest time.

So now I can use just one email account and manage all my other emails using this one.

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Michael Aulia 18 January, 2009 at 8:02 pm: Well I don’t use hotmail as my email anymore (because of the spams). I only use it because I need it for my WLM (Windows Live Messenger)

live wire 17 January, 2009 at 11:35 am

this is good news. im glad i still have hotmail as my main account. thanks for the heads up.
-jack

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John Sullivan 17 January, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Happy 2009 Mike
to be honest just wanted to stop by and say hello and hope all is well Blog is looking sweet.
I have a hotmail acct but don’t use
want your name @city.com check it out
not my site but I like the @city.com address
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PS oh and that post in comment luv is open
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Thanks