Image Most Internet users have an email address. As for which mail service to use, it’s a matter of personal preference. Microsoft's Hotmail (now Microsoft tends to call all its services Windows Live XXX) also has a large number of users because a Hotmail account is also a Live ID. Later, Microsoft launched the Domains service (now called Windows Live Admin Center), allowing domain owners to host their domain's email service on Hotmail. For example, JarryJarry's email address xjy#xtit.net (here @ is replaced by #), is both an email address provided by Hotmail and a Live ID, such as a LIVE MSN account.
It can be seen that using Hotmail has many advantages. However, there has always been one issue troubling Hotmail users: it does not support the common POP3 email retrieval and SMTP email sending protocols. Although we generally use the online webmail method to send and receive emails, Hotmail's lack of support for email clients other than its own OUTLOOK is very frustrating, especially for local email storage, backup, and classification management.
Recently, however, Hotmail has opened up support for POP3 and SMTP protocols, meaning we can now send and receive emails through non-Microsoft email clients, such as Foxmail and Dreammail, which Jarry finds very useful but which has ceased operations.
The setup method is as follows: Create a Hotmail email account, set the POP3 server to pop3.live.com (port 995, needs to be set in advanced options).
- Is POP/SSL required? Yes (it must be! Otherwise, you will encounter error 530).
- Username: Your Windows Live ID, for example, Jarry’s setting: “xjy#xtit.net” (here @ is replaced by #).
- Password: The password you use to log into Hotmail or your Windows Live account.
- SMTP Server: smtp.live.com (port 25 or 587, default is 25).
- Is authentication required? Yes.
- Is TLS/SSL required? Yes.
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