Hotmail Free POP3 Access Here

By Hercules K, BUSINESS 2.0 PRESS
Published: February 11 2009, 2:29 pm EST

win Hotmail Free POP3 Access HereThe email provider Hotmail is beginning to roll out free POP3 access for users in the U.S. now. Hotmail POP3 access was previously only available on premium accounts. Other countries including Canada, the UK, and most western European countries also now have free POP3 support. Microsoft is very late in opening free POP3 access to everyone, various email services including Google’s gmail was offering the feature since its launch. Yahoo remains the biggest player who does not offer free POP3 access right now. Hopefully Yahoo will also follow Microsoft here. One important feature Hotmail now needs to offer is the ability for users to forward their email to any domain they wish, including gmail. Still, users can only forward email to hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com domains.

Hotmail POP3 Settings

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

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  • Alex
    why not use Outlook Connector? i use this with 2 hotmail accounts and a gmail account which work flawlessly.
  • Very bad move on Yahoo's part, Google is just piling up new users, and of course, once you have an established email address, it is very hard to change, especially when there is no reason to...Yahoo/Microsoft are only making things harder for themselves.
  • killa blah
    Yahoo used to have free POP3 access until a couple of years ago when it restricted it to Yahoo Premium subscribers only. Hopefully, the folks at Yahoo will wisen up - with the current policy, they are actually losing customers to gmail, which is more seamless, has better email sorting capability (using labels), and offers more features overall including IMAP capability for free.

    I get my Yahoo email to Gmail via my Outlook client, and YahooPOPs application. Basically, YahooPOPS retrieves email from Yahoo to Outlook, and Gmail then syncs with Outlook via IMAP. I therefore don't have to log into Yahoo at all - YahooPOPS does it for me.
  • too late...
  • Felix1028
    I have had Hotmail forwarded to Thunderbird for a few months now... but now I can have it sent to my G1 as well :)
  • I thought Yahoo did, but Yahoo doesn't have free POP3 support, not even the new Ymail...which is why I personally won't consider using it.
  • I thought Yahoo already offered POP3 access more than a year ago?
  • Port 25 for SMTP is a bad choice. Nearly every ISP blocks port 25 to any server but their own. It would've been better to put this on port 465 instead. Way to fail there, Microsoft.
  • Surfer
    So let's see. Microsoft is giving away pop3 to everyone, a perceived value that was only for paying members. Right? WRONG! It used to be free a very very long time ago. Then it was only free to users of Outlook and Outlook Express. Then, Outlook support went away briefly. This isn't a "value added" move... it's an insult to everyone who remembers.
  • few
    A while back hotmail used to have free pop3 access. Then they took it away. How long until they do that again? I abandoned my hotmail because even when I checked it with pop3, it would go inactive after some short time (a month?). Why would I want to log into my hotmail account more often than that? After all, it never had a search feature, so using it to deal with long-term exchanges became maddening. Hooray gmail!
  • Really? Not for me man, I've always gotten an error, for years now....no 1 know can do that.... maybe you have a premium account?
  • Mr Bow
    My free hotmail account is forwarding to my gmail account... has been for about a year.
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