How To: Get Hotmail on Outlook/Thunderbird | Posted at 3:21 PM
Recently the Windows Live team enabled POP email access for all Hotmail (Live Mail)-based accounts. I found a great resource for how to add your accounts to Outlook (and with Thunderbird it's pretty much the same).
What are Windows Live Hotmail's POP3 and SMTP Settings?
In Thunderbird, for incoming you choose POP. For outgoing (SMTP), you need to add it in the Outgoing Server account and instead of SSL, choose TLS with a port 25. Type in your username as well.
Yes, it works with Hotmail-based accounts too, like my Student Partners email address.
[via Ask Leo]
Comments
Thank god! I have been waiting for Hotmail to integrate POP access for years. I actually gave up on it and haven't checked in months. I wouldn't have known if I hadn't come across your post. Definitely a feature that should have been added earlier, but at least its finally available.
Posted by: www.skilladdiction.com
On July 26, 2009 6:33 PM
This was a great writeup. I recently had to do this in outlook. What I found now though is that if you simply enable pop/imap in your mail settings and use thunderbird instead of outlook it will configure all of the settings for you which is nice!
Posted by: Make Money Online
On September 9, 2009 9:23 AM
Very nice descriptions. I had sometimes some problems using outlook on my computer and i didnt use the program veyr much. But it's really nice to configure hotmail accounts.
Thanks for the tip,
Theodore
Posted by: Theodore Vracas
On November 12, 2009 2:33 PM