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Since this article was written, support was dropped from hotmail to outlook. But, if you're using outlook 2007, you can get the outlook connector. It's a plugin from microsoft which lets you download webmail into outlook properly.
Posted by: Joshua Lee at May 6, 2008 3:34 AMI found this article. I hope it helps.
"Use Yahoo email with Outlook Express (free)?"
http://www.infopackets.com/news/internet/2005/20050720_use_yahoo_email_with_outlook_express_free.htm
Hi Leo,
gmail seems to work okay with Outlook, are there any pop3 and smtp settings for hotmail? There are numerous articles but no definitive answers.
NO - Hotmail does not provide POP3 and SMTP servers to access your mail. Period.
YES - You can use some specific email programs like Windows Live Mail or an add-on to Microsoft Outlook to access your Hotmail.
NO - Outlook Express Hotmail access is being phased out and is no longer supported.
YES - There are third-party add-ons for Thunderbird that, while not officially supported by Hotmail or Microsoft, do allow you to download your Hotmail into Thunderbird.
Hope that helps clarify things. :-)
-Leo
I`ve been using the Thunderbird add-on, Webmail,
http://webmail.mozdev.org for some time now to retrieve mail from both my Hotmail and Yahoo accounts and it works well. It seems to be the only one which is consistently reliable. The author is pretty quick to update when either of the services alter their methods. Why bother with Outlook Express, I say!
Hi, just wanted ti let you know, that you can acces your hotmail account in outlook using a small program called "Outlook Connector", google it!!! :-)
Posted by: Koen Hardy at September 8, 2008 4:16 AMCan you please sent me the
pop3 and smtp info? I would like to setup my hotmail on my Microsoft Outlook?
Hope you can help me!!!
Posted by: Nadia at September 10, 2008 1:15 PMGmail supports POP3 clients and gives full instructions about how to set up the account in Outlook. There are a variety of options, such as whether to leave a copy of the mail oon the server after retrieval by Outlook.
I definitely don't share your views on free email accounts, Leo. I have found Gmail to be great. True, the account gets a lot of spam, but they have a really excellent filter and put 99.99% of it in a special spam folder.
Posted by: Coly Moore at November 18, 2008 8:15 AMYou mentioned YahooPops and HotPops. However, there is another piece of software that covers a variety of email accounts: FreePOPS. It works well with Yahoo, Hotmail and Netzero. At least those are all that I've tried it on. It purports to handle AOL and Juno, as well as a variety of others.
Posted by: physics geek at May 12, 2009 5:04 PMI use Thunderbird to send/receive Hotmail messages. I have 2 questions:
a) Messages "RECEIVED" are kept on both Thundebird & Hotmail (cause I chose "Leave mesages on the server" option), but it is NOT the case for "SENT" messages. Any sugestion as to how to do the latter?
b) Do I still have to pay the annual ±$20 a year for "Windows Live Hotmail PLus"? - I only use the mail, and non of the other features...
Thanks for your advice.
b) I don't see why you'd need to. POP3 is available to all accounts. Not sure what else you're getting with your subscription.
20-Jun-2009
Posted by: Lou at June 20, 2009 5:49 AM
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