[url]http://lifehacker.com/5151551/hotmail-enables-pop3-for-us-users?skyline=true&s=i[/url]

[quote]POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email]yourname@hotmail.com[/email] 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[/quote]

huge

Re: Hotmail enables POP3 for US users

read that today? does anyone even use hotmail anymore? only reason I got a second account was to sign up for an xbox account.

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I do. I have 3 hotmail accounts and a gmail account that I've been using in Thunderbird. Now I'm finally able to uninstall these buggy Thunderbird hotmail add-ons and use POP

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Still have one but barely use it. Only 2 people are sending my E-Mails on it..rest is spam lol. I only have it because when I signed up for my MSN account years ago, you HAD to have a Hotmail account to get in. Stupid Microsucks world conquer strategies.

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whats pop3? and what use can i have with it?...thanks in advaced!

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^you can use your mail client now to access your hotmail, without having to go to their stupid fucking website, hotmail.com. ;)

this is awesome. i still use my hotmail account.

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Do people still use POP? I'd have thought everyone uses web mail or IMAP for corporate these days. I gave up POP and Eudora for Gmail because it was obviously a lot more convenient when travelling. You also run into hassles like archiving your email or transferring them to a new computer when you use POP which downloads your mail to the hard drive.

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so for example i can use with outlook or thunderbird, my hotmail account or gmail to organize and check my email from a program and not from their website? can i use both accounts?...so all my spam lol, is only in 1 acount?

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^yeah. I have all my accounts go to my one mailbox in Thunderbird

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[quote=feather;709365]Do people still use POP? I'd have thought everyone uses web mail or IMAP for corporate these days. I gave up POP and Eudora for Gmail because it was obviously a lot more convenient when travelling. You also run into hassles like archiving your email or transferring them to a new computer when you use POP which downloads your mail to the hard drive.[/quote]

You can choose in Outlook and GMail to leave a copy on the server though.

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^^ There are free Hotmail accounts and Hotmail Plus accounts you need to pay for. In the Plus accounts, POP3 was always enabled, in the free accounts so far they weren't an option (another Microsucks world conquer strategy I guess lol). I just tried it out and added my free account to GMail..worked like a charm. Now I have them all in GMail for when I am not at home. Thanks for the headsup, Adam.