Hot Mail

Rose · 15th October 2002

Trying to set up a mail account using Outlook Express for my Hotmail but I don't know what to put in for the Incoming (POP3) and Outgoing (SMTP) server.

Hope someone can help me.

Thank you.

Rose

aleekat · 15th October 2002

OE will not let you set up an account for Hotmail like that. (its a MS thing). When you click on account, mail, add, the second window you have to select "set up new account for hotmail, then follow along.

Hulka · 15th October 2002

Or if you already have a Hotmail account, simply set your incoming mail server as an HTTP server, HTTP provider as Hotmail and it will handle the rest of the server configuration.

KenKeith · 15th October 2002

Hotmail was free and my choice for mail service, however, there came a day when I was locked out and there was a demand/request for $19.95 per year to gain access and re-establish an account. Apparently, there is a provision in the free contract that if the account is inactive for a length of time one will lose the account and whatever messages therein. I don't mind losing the account but holding the messages for payment is somewhat sleazy; however, there isn't much of a loss there because their spam filter was not very effective and the messages would be largely junk mail.

16th October 2002

Honestly, Hotmail is very bad, I think most everyone will agree to that. It is junk mail bait. A good alternative is at http://www.myrealbox.com
but there are several others, yahoo I hear is pretty good, or try your IPS's mail etc.

BDBD

Hulka · 16th October 2002

I gotta go with BuckDeath on this one. I switched from Hotmail to MyRealBox a few months ago and haven't looked back since. There's even POP client access if you don't want to use the web interface.

RayH · 27th October 2002

First, for the main question. In Outlook Express, just ADD MAIL ACCOUNT. In the What is the ADDRESS box, just put username@hotmail.com. Outlook Express will take care of the rest.

Personally, I like Hotmail. I've been using it as my permanent address for over three years. I like the In Box Protector. I set the filter to EXCLUSIVE. All e-mail whose sender is not in my address book at the Hotmail site is automatically devlivered to a separate folder. But unlike other online e-mail services, it gets downloaded to my computer that way, also.

I just quickly scan the junk mail. Ocassionally, I have one I want to keep. I COPY (not move) it to a local folder. Delete everything else. End of story.

The service is good enough that I would actually pay for it. But I don't.

OdLink · 27th October 2002

www.myrealbox.com isn't taking new acounts, maybe in a near future...