Unless you have a Hotmail Plus account, Hotmail will not work with Apple Mail natively. There is a little app that does make it happen though, it can be found in the Related Links section below.
Hotmail's incoming mail server for POP3 is pop3.live.com on port 995. Hotmail's incoming mail server for IMAPis imap-mail.live.com on port 993.
Hotmail Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop3.live.com (logon using Secure Password Authentification - SPA, mail server port: 995) Hotmail Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) - smtp.live.com (TLS enabled, port 587), these settings should do the trick for your incoming and outgoing mail needs.
the new incoming server is: pop3.live.com Out going server is: smtp.live.comThe Windows Live POP3 mail server settings are:• pop3.live.com - for the Incoming mail• smtp.live.com - for the Outgoing mail
For Hotmail / Windows Live mail, you do not have to specify this on iPhones. Just select "Hotmail" as the type of e-mail provider, and the iPhone will automatically enter these for you. Just enter your account credentials, and you are done!
the SMTP server isn't based on the type of mail provider, it's based on the ISP gateway and what port is used you should be able to find out quite easily by typing 'SMPT servers' into google. assuming u have that information correct hotmail shud be irrelevant to delivery.
Incoming server can refer to the mail server your mail client accesses for email.
The SMTP sever of Hotmail is smtp.live.com.
Yes, Windows Live Hotmail use a POP server.
An incoming mail server is the computerized equivalent of a local mailman. In order for one email to get to another computer, multiple electronic transfers must be made by an incoming mail server.
# Incoming Mail (POP3) Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com (Port 110) # Outgoing (SMTP) Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com (Port 25)
In the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server box, type pop3.live.com. In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server box, type smtp.live.co
You can see people on Hotmail using that site only. The people on Hotmail cannot be seen using the Google website. Hotmail is a completely different mail server than the others.