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Summary: Windows Live Hotmail has no POP3 or SMTP settings with which to download your mail. However if you use certain mail programs, you can still download.
That's actually a representative question that brings together a couple of things that people have been asking for:
There is an answer, but unfortunately the answer won't make everyone happy. • In the past, users of Outlook Express were able to download email from their MSN Hotmail accounts directly into OE. Unfortunately Microsoft began phasing this out some years ago without providing a suitable replacement. Essentially MSN Hotmail users were left out in the cold - the official line was that they had to use the web interface and only the web interface. In recent months things appear to have changed. Windows Live Mail, which is a free downloadable desktop email program that effectively replaces Outlook Express officially supports Windows Live Hotmail accounts. In other words you can configure Windows Live Mail to download your Windows Live Hotmail mail. Microsoft Office Outlook Connector is a free downloadable add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 that adds support for downloading your Windows Live Hotmail directly into Outlook. "... you can configure Windows Live Mail to download
your Windows Live Hotmail mail."
This is great news for users of those email programs, or those willing to switch to those email programs. Among other things it means that there's now an official way to download and backup your Windows Live Hotmail. However if you use another email program things are still not so rosy. If, like me, you use Thunderbird, there is the WebMail extension. Using this extension you can download not only Windows Live Hotmail, but also several other web-based email accounts into Thunderbird. The downside is that it's naturally not supported by Microsoft. And of course it requires that you run Thunderbird. All that being said, it's a fine solution for Thunderbird users. I'm not aware of solutions for other mailers. Specifically, where this comes up short for many people, is that I'm not aware of a solution for mobile devices such as Blackberry or Palm PDA and phones. Those require standard POP3/SMTP email settings, which Windows Live Hotmail does not supply. Naturally you can view your Hotmail in a web browser, but on portable devices that's often very difficult to manage. However, there is a workaround. Windows Live Hotmail will now allow you to forward your email to another address. So, to receive your email using a mailer that requires a POP3/SMTP connection, you can:
That's all there is too it. Now you can access all the email sent to your Windows Live Hotmail account on whatever device you prefer. If your device supports the configuration, you can even change it to set your return address to be "From:" your Hotmail address, even though you might be sending through GMail. Related:
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I use OE6 and have recently opened a Windows Live e-mail account. I find it isn't possible to access the e-mail address ****@live.co.uk, though it is possible to access an old e-mail address that I have which is ****@hotmail.co.uk! So it seems that addresses ending in @live.co.uk are the ones being discrimiated against! Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be possible to get a new hotmail adress ending in @hotmail.co.uk and my old one is too frivolous for general use.
With the @live.co.uk address, the error message says "Access to Hotmail via Outlook and Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/general/Email" However I can't see anything on the site about how to subscribe! No such message comes up when using the @hotmail.co.uk address.
Finally to add insult to injury, when I tried to redirect e-mail from the @live.co.uk account to my domain e-mail address, it doen't recognise it as a domain! Maybe domains ending in .co.uk are unacceptable!
Any advice would be appreciated.
Chris
Posted by: Chris Gutch at February 4, 2008 3:30 AMhow can i down load hotmail on to my laptop so when i open my start window i can go straight to hotmail
Posted by: jason miller at February 26, 2008 2:49 PMThe "just forward it to your gmail account" advice no longer works. When I put in a gmail address as the destination, Hotmail gives me this error message: You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.
Posted by: alm at April 10, 2008 7:28 PMBut it doesn't accept my "custom domain" either. Hotmail Help says, "You can forward e-mail that's sent to your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox or custom folder to another hotmail.com, MSN.com, Live.com, or Windows Live Admin Center e-mail address."
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Forwarding works for many people. Please read this article:
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Leo
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Tried what you suggested as far as forwarding hotmail address to my Gmail account, MS now has this disabled as well.. figures..
Posted by: Shawn Stietz at May 21, 2008 12:30 PMhotmail will not allow me to forward email directly to my new gmail account??
Posted by: Victoria at June 18, 2008 5:48 AMI want to ask, how i can login on my hotmail? I by new computer and i cant login:-(((((
Posted by: GOCA at July 10, 2008 5:01 AMYou can synchronize your hotmail messages to your MS-Outlook by usinbg Microsoft Outlook Connector. Search the internet for this small file provided by Microsoft and install it on your machine. I use this file to synchronize my emails with MS-Outlook, it is working with MS-Outlook.
Posted by: Fadi at October 4, 2008 5:42 PMLet me know if you have any problem.
Thanks