Hotmail POP access now worldwide

After the unexpected Hotmail outage, POP access is now available to all Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide!

How to use POP with Hotmail

I will show you the example of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but other mail clients are similar.

1. Click “Tools”, “Account Settings…”.
2. On the “E-mail” tab, click “New…”.
3. If you are prompted to “Choose E-mail Service”, select “Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP”, and click “Next”.
4. Check the checkbox at “Manually configure server settings or additional server types”, and click “Next”.
5. Select “Internet e-mail” and click “Next”.
6. In the section “User Information”, enter your name and your Hotmail address.
7. In the section “Server Information”, select “POP3” as “Account Type”, enter “pop3.live.com” as “Incoming mail server” and “smtp.live.com” as “Outgoing mail server”.
8. “Logon Information” are your Hotmail address (including @hotmail.com or @live.com), along with your password.
9. Now click the button “More Settings…”, and switch to the “Outgoing Server” tab.
10. Check the checkbox “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”.
11. On the “Advanced” tab, at “Incoming server (POP3)”, check the checkbox “This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)”.
12. At “Outgoing server (SMTP)”, open the select box “Use the following type of encrypted connection”, and choose “TLS”.
13. Now click “OK”, “Next” and “Finish”. You’re done!