Hotmail POP3 settings

Mar

2009

Hotmail POP3 settings

hotmail Following a couple of articles of mine talking about how to turn on POP3 and SMTP in Windows Live Hotmail and how to forward the emails you get on Hotmail to Gmail, I have decided to write another article involving Hotmail after the news that Microsoft has made available Hotmail POP3 access world-wide.

Here are the settings to access Hotmail by using your desktop email client or your phone:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Tags: email, MSapp

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3 Comments to “Hotmail POP3 settings”

Dj Gomez Says:
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Thanks for this information. I like how nicely it is laid out. It could use more information as per program specifics, but that is time consuming. Thanks for the info and as a Computer guy I deff can send ppl to this website to setup theirs.
Paul G. Chapman Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 8:05 am

Brilliant, fantastic! your advice took me two minutes and I was up and running with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Now I need to get “MailWasher from “FireTrust” operational as well for total perfection.
Paul G. Chapman Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 8:11 am

Just to say Mailwasher up and running…. double fantastic