How To Configure Outlook Express for Hotmail

In the event that you would prefer not to get to your Hotmail through your web program, you can design a nearby email customer to get to your hotmail email. The least complex email customer on the Windows XP stage is Outlook Express, halfway on the grounds that the setup of Hotmail on Outlook Express is exceptionally straightforward.

Take after these means to design your Hotmail account in Outlook Express:

Open Outlook Express.

In the Tools menu, select Accounts.

In the Internet Mail window, select the Mail tab.

Tap the Add catch on the right-hand side, and snap Mail.

Sort the Display Name for your Hotmail record, and snap Next.

Sort your Hotmail email address, and snap Next.

All required server subtle elements are consequently entered in light of the way that Outlook Express knows the Hotmail settings. So basically click Next.

Hotmail settings in Outlook Express

Sort your hotmail email address in the Account name field, and your secret key in the Password field.

Snap Next and afterward Finish.

It's as simple as that. In the event that Outlook Express requests that you download the envelopes from your new mail server, you can click Yes. After that you can utilize your hotmail account in Outlook Express.

Refresh 2009:

From September 1, 2009 onwards Microsoft ceased the help of WebDAV, the convention utilized by Outlook Express to get to Live hotmail accounts. This implies the above guidelines will never again enable you to get to the hotmail account utilizing Outlook Express.

In the event that despite everything you need to utilize your hotmail account in Outlook Express, change the setup to utilize POP3 and SMTP.

Change the approaching mail server to pop3.live.com and change the active mail server to

smtp.live.com

Advance settings: don't check the Log on utilizing Secure Password Authentication (SPA) checkbox, and ensure the active server is designed to utilize validation, where you can regularly utilize indistinguishable settings from the approaching server.

Under the Advanced tab, change the Server Port Numbers to be 995 for the approaching server and 25 or 587 for the active server. Both ought to utilize a safe association (SSL).