HOTMAIL is soon available with POP access

[RS1001]

Look what I stumbled across, Looks like we will be soon be able to get Hotmail on our phones:laugh2:



http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/13/pop3-availability-in-windows-live-hotmail.aspx



POP3 Availability in Windows Live Hotmail

This solution article will give you information about the free POP3 feature made available to Windows Live Hotmail users.
Some time ago, Windows Live indicated that they were working on implementing free POP services for Windows Live Hotmail. The time has come and we are glad to announce that we have begun rolling out free POP3 services to all Windows Live Hotmail users. Since Windows Live Hotmail spans such a large infrastructure, we need to turn this on in a controlled manner. We have decided that it would be most appropriate to bring our users on by country. This will allow us to slowly ramp up the new POP services and expand to the infrastructure.
As part of Phase 1, we have rolled this feature out to all free users in the following countries:
UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Next Phases are still in planning and US will be included in Phase 2 which is targeted sometime in the month of February. We will be updating this solution article with more specific dates as we get closer to the migration.
What this means?
Users registered in the countries mentioned above will be able to use the POP services for free and will not require a subscription to do so.
What should you do?
Since the change would be made in the background, users don't have to take any action to migrate their accounts to free POP service. We request users in other countries not to change their country settings in their profile as this will be based on the combination of the country in their profile and IP of the country that you login with.
For instructions on how to setup your Windows Live Hotmail account for POP access from a mail client, click here (https://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/06/send-and-receive-windows-live-hotmail-emails-from-a-mail-client.aspx)
For instructions on how to setup your Windows Live Hotmail account to POP mails from a 3rd party email in Windows Live Hotmail UI (User Interface), click here (https://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/06/receive-mail-from-other-e-mail-accounts-in-windows-live-hotmail.aspx)
If you have problems accessing POP and want to report a problem click here (https://windowslivehelp.com/community/15.aspx)



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Last Updated Jan 13 2009
Last resolved a question on Jan 21 2009

[acosmichippo]

welcome to 1999, microsoft!

http://www.ibiza-spotlight.com/image/night/club_reviews/2007/space_birthday_party/confetti.jpg

[aggieman]

does anyone still use hotmail???

[Dustu2]

does anyone still use hotmail???

Why wouldn't they?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

does anyone still use hotmail???

Yep. That's where most of my spam and dealings with other companies go.

I also have several Gmail accounts for specific uses.

[Ramesh]

Cool. They have the verbiage stating it has to paid for still:

https://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/06/send-and-receive-windows-live-hotmail-emails-from-a-mail-client.aspx

[danipoak]

Why wouldn't they?

Why would they?

[iksn]

Why would they?

I know this is out of order, but I couldn't wait.

Why would they? :2cool:

[Dustu2]

Why would they?

I know this is out of order, but I couldn't wait.

Why would they? :2cool:

Because it's free email?? Perhaps I'm just missing something. Although I don't use it anymore, because I switched to Gmail for the iPhone support... I did use it for the longest time.

[eye-Fone]

I've been a beta tester and have been using the Hotmail (LiveMail) POP email for a couple of months now and it works well on the native iPhone mail client.

[wildonrio]

It's not IMAP though, POP3 is not as good as IMAP. With POP3, when you check your mail on your computer, then go to your iPhone, it doesn't know you already read it on your computer and marks it as new. That really bugs me, I don't know about you guys. IMAP on the other hand syncs everything up nicely so that when you read an email on one device (computer/phone), it marks it as read on the other. I say to all hotmail users, ditch hotmail and go gmail. If you want all your hotmail forwarded to your gmail, you can have all your hotmail forwarded to gmail until you completely make the transition. As soon as hotmail gets POP3 access (as they are stating), you can start the forwarding. If you can't wait, check out izymail.com for now which adds POP3 access to hotmail for a modest fee.

[acosmichippo]

If you want all your hotmail forwarded to your gmail, you can have all your hotmail forwarded to gmail until you completely make the transition.

Actually, that feature was removed a while ago.

http://img.skitch.com/20090124-f78dmcn4p6m2f7pectabhut9n1.jpg

[styfle]

Actually, that feature was removed a while ago.

http://img.skitch.com/20090124-f78dmcn4p6m2f7pectabhut9n1.jpg

Lame
Microsoft fails

[TarekElsakka]

does anyone still use hotmail???

I use it, and only it.

Btw, I can use Hotmail on my phone (as an app) on Windows Mobile though.

On Nokia I juse use the browser :p.

[s8n666]

Hotmail. LOL.

[jdinner]

I made the settings in the mail client and all works fine for hotmail on the iPhone.

[acosmichippo]

i think it would help clear things up if the people who it is working for could list what country they are in.

[eye-Fone]

i think it would help clear things up if the people who it is working for could list what country they are in.
United States (Orange County, California)

[jdinner]

Oops, I 'm in Canada eh and it works just fine, better than izymzil.

[Elbacanazo920]

Great Now I could check all my Spam mail on my iPhone and keep getting my Sign Up for encarta online mail also.

[eye-Fone]

Great Now I could check all my Spam mail on my iPhone and keep getting my Sign Up for encarta online mail also.
Check your junk mail settings. The SPAM filter with LiveMail (Hotmail) works fine for me. Most (if not all) of that crap does not make it to my iPhone.

It's nice to have all my mail in one app (the iPhone's mail client). Surfing the web with mobile Safari to process email sucks.

[Bob Rules]

I finally got my Hotmail working! I changed my location to Canada on my hotmail, went to settings, mail, add account and other on my iphone. Under new account i entered my hotmail info ignored the hotmail warning and what do you know, i started recieving my emails.

[iPhoneMonster]

Yeah that would have been good as soon as they launched the iPhone, but now I've already swapped over to Yahoo mail because it has free push mail.

[Dustu2]

Yeah that would have been good as soon as they launched the iPhone, but now I've already swapped over to Yahoo mail because it has free push mail.

*spews coffee* free push? how come nobody told me that before I switched to Gmail?!

[Skol312000]

Lol, what client of email offers the best push services?

[iPhoneMonster]

*spews coffee* free push? how come nobody told me that before I switched to Gmail?!

Yahoo had advertised it a lot lol.

[acosmichippo]

*spews coffee* free push? how come nobody told me that before I switched to Gmail?!

It's not *true* push.

[eye-Fone]

Lol, what client of email offers the best push services?
It's not the client that offers push (however, the client must be capable of receiving push technology). The individual mail service is what offers push services.

In most of our cases, the iPhone 3G is our client and Microsoft's Exchange or Apple's Mobile Me is the push mail service. Keep in mind that just because a/your company uses MS Exchange, that doesn't mean they have it turned on.