Hotmail - POP3 settings

[gixxer1000]

Microsoft do a good job of either not bothering to publish how to get your POP 3 settings for hotmail, or they purposely don't let you.

Anyone done this?

Cheers,
gixxer.

[agent006]

Depends what you use to pick it up with. Outlook express will automatically detect a hotmail account when you put in your address. Hotmail uses HTTP not POP3.

[simpo two]

Yep, as I understand it the whole point of Hotmail and other web-based services is that you *don't* use OE or POP3.

[furby]

Hotmail is a web based mail. Being web based it isn't POP3. That is the whole point of it, you can pick it up from any computer by logging into the web site. POP3 mail is when you need to configure your outlook(or whatever) to send and recieve via your settings.
You can configure your domain to forward mails to your hotmail if you want, as for the other way round, not sure you can do it. Or whether you would want to do it.

[agent006]

Outlook express WILL let you connect to your hotmail account. I htink outlook might too.

[GreenV8S]

If it helps, I use the following settings to access Hotmail from OE:
"My mail server is a web server"
Server URL: http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp
Mail server login name = my Hotmail address

[gixxer1000]

Thanks folks. What I wanted to do was to get my hotmail messages via GPRS to my mobile, without having to naviate through the web site (hotmail.com). Does that mean it's not possible?

gixxer.

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gixxer1000 said:

Thanks folks. What I wanted to do was to get my hotmail messages via GPRS to my mobile, without having to naviate through the web site (hotmail.com). Does that mean it's not possible? gixxer.

Yes, not possible. Thats unless you have an app on the mobile capable of using the HTTP protocol get retreive mail rather than POP

[squirrelz]

No use to you in this instance, but if anyone else is using linux, you can run hotwayd to provide a POP3 interface to hotmail.

http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/