Setting up thunderbird to work with Hotmail

Ok im about to make myself sound like a dumb **** but, i've never used outlook or thunderbird... and have always just gone onto firefox to check my email at Hotmail.

SO now i want to emulate Mac OSX mail, and what better way to do it than to use and skin thunderbird... just one problem- whats all this POP? IMAP? incoming server? account stuff ?

my address is @hotmail.com and im wondering how to set up an account... what are all the options i need to choose ? what is the incoming server? hotmail.com (been there tried that)? why wont it let select http (over pop/imap)?

help!

#377532

It won't let you because Hotmail does not offer Pop3 access anymore. Hasn't for some time now. You have to upgrade (pay money) for this feature. There are a couple 3rd party options but one can never be too sure about that regarding privacy and whatnot...

To answer your question further: Pop3 and IMAP are email protocols, it's the language the client and server use to shake hands and say how you do?. Most ISPs offer a couple free pop3 email accounts when you sign up for their services. To set them up in your client it goes something like this:

This uses Comcast and Outlook Express -

First you find the ISPs mail server, for Comcast it's mail.comcast.net (call your ISP if you don't know it). This is the server your client will download the email from.

To send mail you'll have to enter in the Outgoing server. For Comcast it's smtp.comcast.net

The rest is pretty self-explanatory.

#377538

It won't let you because Hotmail does not offer Pop3 access anymore. Hasn't for some time now. You have to upgrade (pay money) for this feature. There are a couple 3rd party options but one can never be too sure about that regarding privacy and whatnot...

Well thats unfortunate. But thankyou very much for putting it into plain English, I really appreciate it, what about Windows Live Mail (beta)? does it use pop3? or does it still use hotmail?...I switched over to it recently.

to others- what do you guys recommend? any freeware to make hotmail work with thunderbird?

cheers.

#377539

Well, I use Web Mail, wich is an extension for Thunderbird. It works great with a lot of webmails like Hotmail, Gmail (I use Gmail currently, Hotmail doesn't work for me...), Yahoo!, Lycos or AOL...

Try it, that's really nice

#377548

Hey, I use thunderbird to get to my hotmail. I set it up ages ago so not sure of the settings but use this, www.fitsoftware.com for Hotmail Popper, which allows Hotmail POP3 access then just set thunderbird up as usual!

#377590

awesome thanx guys... i'll let you know how it goes ... if i dont get banned before then

#377831

Update:

A bunch of guys over at webmail found that after 2008 started, webmail with hotmail does not work..

So..any other ideas?

#488388

Strange, it seems to be working fine for me here.

#488407

It works fine for me too.

#488416