POP3 Email Account
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How to Add a POP3 Email account:
Currently, only some users, including users who have a paid subscription to Windows Live Hotmail, can add a POP3 account to their Windows Live Hotmail account.
With Windows Live Hotmail you can receive, read, and respond to mail from other e-mail accounts. Some e-mail providers offer POP3 access and the ability for you to forward mail to another e-mail address. Contact your e-mail provider to determine whether they offer these features. If you have another e-mail account that has POP3 access, you can configure Windows Live Hotmail to receive mail from that POP3 account.
Add a POP3 account:
To set up a Windows Live Hotmail account using POP, pick your e-mail program from the list or see below for general settings.
To access a Windows Live Hotmail Plus account in any desktop e-mail program or smart phone device:
- Create a new account using the following settings:
- POP (incoming) server: pop3.live.com
- POP port: 995
- POP SSL required: yes
- POP user name: your complete Windows Live Hotmail address (including "@hotmail.com", "@live.com", etc.)
- POP password: your Windows Live Hotmail password
- SMTP (outgoing) server: smtp.live.com
- SMTP port: 25
- If you run into problems sending mail, try "587" for the SMTP port instead.
- SMTP SSL required: yes
- SMTP authentication: yes
- SMTP user name: your full Windows Live Hotmail e-mail address
- SMTP password: your Windows Live Hotmail password
Note that free POP access is currently available to users in
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- the Netherlands
- Spain
- the United States and
- the United Kingdom.
In any other country, you may need that Windows Live Hotmail Plus subscription after all.
To delete a POP3 account
- In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
- Under Manage your account, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
- Click delete to remove the POP3 account from your live mail.
Notes
- Only some users, including users who have a paid subscription to Windows Live Hotmail, can add a POP3 account to their Windows Live Hotmail account.
- You can add up to four POP3 accounts.
- To check the POP3 account for new mail, in the left pane, click Mail, and then click POP.
- E-mail services that use Secure POP (Also known as SSL POP3: Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL uses a specialized encryption method to help ensure secure communication over the Internet. POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is a protocol that's used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. With SSL POP3, the information that’s transmitted by using the POP3 protocol is directed through a layer of encryption named the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).) , such as Gmail, are not currently supported.
- The maximum size of an e-mail message that can be downloaded is 15 MB. Messages that are larger than 15 MB won't be downloaded.
You can download 500 messages at a time. If you have to download more than 500 messages, you'll have to download them 500 at a time.
Receive mail from non-POP3 accounts
With some e-mail providers, you may have the ability to forward e-mail to your Windows Live Hotmail account. Not all e-mail providers support this feature. For more information about how to forward e-mail, see the Help documentation for your other e-mail provider.
Automatically sort mail from another account into a folder in Windows Live Hotmail
To configure Windows Live Hotmail to filter mail from another account and put it in a specific folder:
- In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
- Under Customize your mail, click Automatically sort e-mail into folders.
- Click New filter.
- Under Step 1:
- In the first options box, click To or CC lines.
- In the second options box, click contains.
- In the text box, enter the appropriate e-mail address.
- Under Step 2, select New Folder, and then enter a name for the folder.
- Click Save.
Note
Messages that were sent to the other e-mail account as part of a mailing list will not be added to this folder.
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