What are MSN HotMail's POP3 and SMTP settings for Outlook Express?

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Here is the PROOF that LEO is 100% CORRECT as far as outlook express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=878462
However there is a workaround as per MICROSOFT
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234704/

But then microsoft officially states the following
This article describes how to connect to MSN, the Microsoft Network, e-mail accounts. Currently, MSN offers the following three types of e-mail accounts: • MSN Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) account. This is a fee-based account that also provides access to the Internet and many other member benefits.
• MSN Web-based account. This is a fee-based account that is available to MSN 9 Dial-up, MSN Premium, and MSN Hotmail Plus subscribers.
• Microsoft Outlook Connector for MSN. This is a subscription-based product that is currently available to MSN 9.0 Premium customers. Outlook Connector for MSN works in the background. With this product, users can use Microsoft Outlook to manage one set of communication tools such as their contact list, task list, e-mail inbox, and calendar in the office or at home. Outlook Connector for MSN is compatible with Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and has the following features: • 25-megabyte (MB) inbox
• 10 MB attachment
• 39 MB group storage

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287604/en-us

Basically you may have a free account that works from past, however they are not currently avaliable and eventually you will not be able to download email for free.

Steve,

Just to clarify Leo said "There are no POP3 and SMTP servers provided by HotMail. None."

You are refering to settingup outlook as a webbased email account which is different from pop3. There is a difference. However, I would amend his statement to There are no POP3 and SMTP servers provided by FREE HotMail accounts. Clearly, they are provided for paid accounts as per the above posts.

I have had a msn pop email acount for years. Suddenly after installing vista I can no longer connect to the SPA server to download my msn mail to outlook. This still works on my xp machines so it is a security issue in vista that is disallowing the SP Ato connect to the msn servers. Any idea when / if this will be corrected?

You can use outlook, you have to set it to 'hotmail' in the settings and it works. It is not pop3/smtp but they do have a system.

how can I remove hotmail from my outlook express 6 I now understand that I can't set up hotmail in outlook express but how do I get rid of it plus it give me these error measages each time I try to use it
Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'imap.aol.com (2)', Server: 'smtp.aol.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

The service is currently unavailable. Try again later. Account: 'MSN', Server: 'http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0

Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'MSN', Server: 'http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Service Unavailable', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCCF0

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'imap.aol.com', Server: 'imap.aol.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'imap.aol.com ', Server: 'smtp.aol.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F

can you help me.

Mona: in OE, hit the Tools menu, Accounts item, Mail tab, and click on the line that represents your hotmail account and then click on the Remove button.

Dear Leo,

Apparently you shouldn’t be posting if you don’t know what you are talking about. If you are actually an MSN member you have a email account with pop3 and SMTP servers. They are pop3.email.msn.com and smtp.email.msn.com. What the person was referring to is there is a change in windows Vista that prevents the secure login to the pop3 server that works with previous versions of windows, which I my self am trying to find an answer to fix this.

Thanks for reading carefully

Leo, I really think you should correct the information in this post. I was looking for the settings to fix an outlook express hotmail account that used to work. Your informatin led me to think that msn had withdrawn the service. In fact the status quo continues. The Criteria is simple: IF you have a hotmail.com account, you can download to outlook, if your account is the newer .co.uk etc type account then you can no longer download to outlook.

Setting up the account again, I discover the correct setting as already given in an earlier comment is:

http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp

Regards
Tony

Theres this new program called windows live mail desktop (beta) and it can be used to check mn hotmail, gmail, and it also imports (i think) existing accounts from outlook express. you need to sign up @ http://ideas.live.com/
(it sucks but works on a celeron)

Mona, I plugged in that pop3hot before reading far enough. After reading a little further I removed it. Does this 3rd party now have my info? Will I owe anything since I only had it plugged in for 30 seconds?

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