You might be aware that Windows Live Hotmail POP3 access is now available to most of the countries including US and Brazil. Alas, IMAP is still a question. Anyway, better late than never.
So now you don’t need to purchase a PRO subscription to get your Live Hotmail emails in Outlook, Thunderbird or any other email client including mobile devices.
Just set up the POP3 settings as mentioned below and you should be all set:
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@live.com
Password: The password you 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
I am a big fan of IMAP feature because if eliminates the need to read the same mail again on various devices. Still by enabling POP3 access Windows Live Hotmail has opened to its users a little bit without charging a subscription fees. Not sure why it takes so much time for Microsoft to enable these useful features. Noticeably, Hotmail is way behind GMail and AOL in enabling POP3 access. GMail and AOL have POP3 and IMAP both since the very beginning.
Yahoo! – don’t even talk about it. They have POP3 access to its UK users but not for US users. Check out this article to see how you can get POP3 for Yahoo for free.
Lets wait for another couple of years for Windows Live Hotmail to enable IMAP, till then I am going to use GMail with my Google Apps.
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