POP3 in Hotmail and Live Mail
It’s finally here! Microsoft offers free access through POP3 to Live Mail and Hotmail. Now you can add your account in your favorite mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) without using connectors like Outlook Connector.
However it does not offer contacts and calendar synchronization like Outlook Connector but it allows you to choose where and how to save the e-mails.That should be fine for many.
The settings for POP3 are:
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com or yourname@live.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
A few months ago I was thinking to buy a pro account for Live Mail in order to have POP3 access. I’m glad I didn’t do that! :)
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Comments 2
Mar 14th, 2009
March 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I also like this feature a lot. I’ve been using the Windows Live Mail client for some time now, and I just love it.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
I just tried entering these settings into gmail, to get my mails from the live account to gmail via pop3 but it returned an error: “Invalid syntax”.
Do you have any ideas that could help?
Thank you,
Valentin