How Can I Setup Outlook 2000 to Read Mail for a HotMail User?

[\ AA Smith\]

I'm setting up Outlook 2000 on a friend's computer. However, when it comes
to server names or IDs I don't know what to enter. I've always had an
e-mail address assigned through san ISP. So, I'm familiar with what needs
to be entered for POP3 and SMTP entries. But Hotmail is apparently not
either of those. So what do I enter when setting up Outlook 2000 to read
their E-Mail from HotMail.com?

I shall indeed greatly appreciate your help with this.

 

[Mary]

You cannot use Outlook or OE for free Hotmail any more. Tell him to use
Internet Explorer instead.

 

[_Vanguard_]

I'm setting up Outlook 2000 on a friend's computer. However, when it
comes to server names or IDs I don't know what to enter. I've always
had an e-mail address assigned through san ISP. So, I'm familiar with
what needs to be entered for POP3 and SMTP entries. But Hotmail is
apparently not either of those. So what do I enter when setting up
Outlook 2000 to read their E-Mail from HotMail.com?

Outlook 2000 doesn't support WebDAV (the protocol used to connect to
Hotmail and must be supported in the e-mail client). Hotmail was first
supported in Outlook 2002; you define an HTTP e-mail account for
Hotmail. See http://www.slipstick.com for a suggestion on how to get
Hotmail to work in Outlook 2000, but this is a kludge and might not
work, or it might work at first and then stop working later.

WebDAV access to freebie Hotmail accounts has been discontinued. If you
opened a new *freebie* Hotmail account after Sept 30, 2004, then you
don't get WebDAV access anymore. If your Hotmail account is older than
that, WebDAV access for freebie accounts will continue until March 2005
and then it is dead, too. If you want WebDAV access to Hotmail (i.e.,
from an e-mail client rather than use a browser to use the webmail
interface), you have to get a paid Hotmail account.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm setting up Outlook 2000 on a friend's computer. However, when it
comes to server names or IDs I don't know what to enter. I've always
had an e-mail address assigned through san ISP. So, I'm familiar
with what needs to be entered for POP3 and SMTP entries. But Hotmail
is apparently not either of those. So what do I enter when setting
up Outlook 2000 to read their E-Mail from HotMail.com?

I shall indeed greatly appreciate your help with this.

Outlook 2000 can't access Hotmail and, as Mary said, Hotmail is
discontinuing access to the free Hotmail accounts from Outlook 2002/2003 and
Outlook Express.

 

[AA Sharon]

Thanks, Vanguard. I appreciate your feedback! I guess I'll have to find
another freebie e-mail service that can be accessed by outlook & Outlook
Express.

With kindest regards,

Dick Smith
[email protected]

 

[AA Sharon]

Ok, thanks, Brian! I guess we'll have to dump HotMail and find another
freebie e-mail service that will allow users access via Outlook & Outlook
Express.

With kindest regards,

Dick Smith

 

[_Vanguard_]

Thanks, Vanguard. I appreciate your feedback! I guess I'll have to
find another freebie e-mail service that can be accessed by outlook &
Outlook Express.

With kindest regards,

Dick Smith
[email protected]

I use Yahoo Mail. While it is a webmail provider (for the *freebie*
accounts), you can either:

- Get a paid Yahoo account to get POP3/SMTP access.
- Use YahooPOPs as a local POP3-to-HTTP protocol converter proxy.

Both will let your POP3 e-mail client use Yahoo Mail. I haven't
bothered looking at Gmail (still waiting for them to come out of beta
testing) but have heard that it provide free POP3/SMTP access. However,
I suspect outbound e-mails sent using their SMTP server will suffer the
same fate as outbound e-mails sent from Hotmail and Yahoo (free accounts
only), which is them tacking on their promotional spam signature to your
messages. It looks amateurish. If your ISP provides an SMTP server,
use that for the outbound e-mails.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I guess we'll have to dump HotMail and find
another freebie e-mail service that will allow users access via
Outlook & Outlook Express.

I have a feeling that, if they don't exist already, freeware applications
will begin to appear that circumvent the Hotmail access restrictions.