Comments for What are the POP3 and SMTP settings for Hotmail?

Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-06-05

2006-06-05T17:14:50Z

I'm closing comments on this article, because it's obviously not clear enough and people keep spreading missinformation in the comments.

I've written a new article to take it's place. Please read this article: http://ask-leo.com/what_are_msn_hotmails_pop3_and_smtp_settings_for_outlook_express.html

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-06-05

2006-06-05T16:04:10Z

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: pop3hot.com IS NOT OWNED BY HOTMAIL. You are giving your information to a third party.

Pop3hot.com IS NOT FREE. Quoting from their page: "After the free registration, you can evaluate the service, its features, reliability and speed for 15 days. During that period, we pay for the traffic and all operational cost of our system. When you decide to stay with us, please proceed to the Subscription Pages to sign up for a permanent account."

As I write this, they're charging just under $11/year for yoru first account, plus a $5 setup fee.

Now, if that's all OK to you ... then by all means go for it. But be VERY VERY CLEAR: "pop3hot.com" is NOT "the POP3 and SMTP setting for Hotmail" - it's an intermediary service not associated with Hotmail or Microsoft.

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Comment from douglas Valenzuela on 2006-04-28

2006-04-28T16:53:10Z

on my MAIL 2.0 program I use (rather than HOTMAIL), it keeps coming up "Please enter the password for user “[Email Address Removed]” on POP server “127.0.0.1” even tho I've put in my password it won't let me retrieve my mail any longer...I can now only respond to mail already in this account. On my HOTMAIL account, I can get and respond...but the MAIL 2.0 program is what I really need to work.
Thank so much...
help!

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-23

2006-03-23T17:03:15Z

I did not say they are not trustworthy. I also did not say they are. I simply don't know.

Why is that an issue? a) I can't imagine that the service can work without your Hotmail password somewhere, but even if it does, b) it's putting itself between you and your email. These third party services have access to your email. Do you want that? Do you trust them?

Again, I'm not saying *this* service is good or bad. I don't know.

What I AM saying, is that if you're going to pay for a service such as this, why not get a "real" email account somewhere other than Hotmail that supports POP3/SMTP natively, and might even include some customer support?

What I am saying is think carefully before you do it.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-03-22

2006-03-23T04:49:52Z

Please note that "pop3hot" is NOT MSN. It is some third party (IzySoft). I have NO idea whether they are trustworthy. They are NOT free.

Caveat emptor.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-01-08

2006-01-08T18:06:05Z

Anne: follow the instructions here: http://messenger.msn.com/download/getstarted.aspx

and follow the link "Use any e-mail address to sign up for a .NET Passport"

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-01-08

2006-01-08T18:00:27Z

Please note that pop3hot.com is NOT owned by HotMail or Microsoft - it's owned by a company in Belgium. This is a *subscription service* (you have to pay for it after a trial period), and you must give this third party you HotMail account information for it to work.

Use at your own risk.

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Comment from Matty on 2006-01-06

2006-01-06T19:24:56Z

Outlook 2003 has a setting to choose hotmail from a drop down bar, so you can access your hotmail mail no problemo :p

Type hotmail in the help section!

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Comment from Leo on 2006-01-05

2006-01-06T04:56:10Z

You simply need to create a Passport account using your yahoo email adddress, and then use that account ot login to Messenger.

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Comment from 123 on 2005-11-29

2005-11-29T17:36:46Z

Hotmail Settings
As other web based email services, Hotmail is using the HTTP protocol for connecting you to your mailbox. If you want to send and receive Hotmail emails using an email client software, then your software must support Hotmail HTTP access for your email account. Some email clients, such as Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook, offer builtin support for Hotmail accounts, so you only have to select HTTP when you are asked to select your email account type and select Hotmail as the HTTP Mail Service Provider

http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/mail-settings.html

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Comment from Pieter Blondeel on 2005-10-31

2005-10-31T13:47:28Z

Hotmail itselfs offers no pop3 or smtp services.
However there is Freepops, a program you can install on your computer and which lets you access different web-email accounts like hotmail of mail.com (and many others)
You just have to configure your email-client (i prefer The Bat, btw), to localhost and portnumber 2000, once Freepops is installed.
There is however no smtp server, which means you can only receive your mails in your mail-client, but not send email. (therefore you should install a smtp-server).

In short, if you want to circumvent this stuff, get yourself a Gmail-account, which offers free pop3 and smtp-acces; and which in my opinion, is way better, faster and easier to use than hotmail.

If you really want to keep your hotmailaddress and want to acces it through your mail-client, just install Freepops and adjust your settings in the mail-client.

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Comment from Jason on 2005-10-07

2005-10-08T02:11:39Z

Hotmail is no longer allowing free pop3 access. This is what I received while trying to set up Outlook 2003 to download mail from hotmail.

The server responded 'Access to Hotmail via Outlook and Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://upgrade.msn.com'. '

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Comment from Leo on 2005-08-22

2005-08-22T14:44:41Z

If you're trying to do this with Hotmail, please read the article. The answer is that Hotmail doesn't support that, you'll need to use a web browser instead.

If this is a different email account, you'll need to copy the settings you're using on your PC-based mail program - or ask your ISP.

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Comment from Alon on 2005-08-21

2005-08-22T06:17:47Z

I'm trying to set up my hotmail account on my new pocket pc the O2 Xda II mini, and I do not know what to put in the "server information" fields for:
incoming mail :
outgoung mail :
domain :

Please help

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Comment from Leo on 2005-08-05

2005-08-06T02:46:39Z

That depends entirely on your ISP or what service you use for email. CHeck with them.

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Comment from pj on 2005-07-26

2005-07-26T14:39:09Z

download incredimail at www.incredimail.com - their software allows you to download your hotmail and it's very easy to set up the new account and automatically configure. i like it much better than outlook, too. :)

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Comment from yash on 2005-04-10

2005-04-10T08:06:21Z

Get First the DNS numbers (Domain numbers) of Whatever mail server you are using for example for outgoing e-mails you must give the number of SMTP number. Then POP3 for incoming mails. For hotmail you can use the default setting in Outlook express. If you are using yahoo than SMTP is smtp.mail.yahoo.com and POP3 is pop.mail.yahoo.com , ok .bye

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