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Free Hotmail POP3 support is now available worldwide


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We are happy to announce that POP3 technology is now available to Hotmail users *edit 12Mar09* WORLDWIDE!

What is POP3? It is a protocol that allows almost any e-mail software program that you’ve installed on your mobile phone or PC to get messages from your e-mail inbox on the web and deliver them in the designated program.

Although you always could access Hotmail on your web-enabled mobile phone by going to mobile.live.com, now that Hotmail has POP3, you can get to it more conveniently using the e-mail software on your PC or mobile device* such as a Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or BlackBerry.

When you set up Hotmail in the e-mail program on your PC or mobile device, you may be asked for the following information:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)

POP SSL required? Yes

User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected]

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

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WOOOOHOOOOOOOO, YEAHHHHHHHHH!!!

Been hoping they'd do this for some time already :D

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There always been other ways to achieve just that, hoever rather good and totaly late move by $ minded M$ to release such info as, not kiding, but they (M$) thought of gaining money from email too....

Thanks for the heads up!

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Yeah, there were, but I didn't like them :D The Webmail extension for Mozilla Thunderbird was a bit buggy...

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How crappy are M$ minds... enabling POP3 in 2009 :D

Never used hotmail and never will use...

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Excellent breaking news, jfe - don't use hotmail, myself (hotmail Users, are gonna freak out.)

off-topic:

Incidentally, Yahoo! has come with something on the same lines - I'm testing it out & shall open a fresh topic after locating the name of the guy who broke that news (for his credits sake.)

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How crappy are M$ minds... enabling POP3 in 2009 <_<

Never used hotmail and never will use...

Ditto, I wouldn't use Hotmail even if they pay me!

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Mails usually take up to 5min to arrive me from hotmail accounts... and i think between hotmail accounts is the same...

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