Windows Live Hotmail will offer the POP3 receiving mail function.

From Hotmail to LiveMail and then to Live Hotmail, none of them have supported POP3 email retrieval. Instead, users had to use Outlook or WLM clients, which brought great inconvenience. If you needed POP3, you had to pay for Hotmail Plus. However, Gmail, its biggest competitor, offered this service. Therefore, whether or not POP3 is supported is an important factor in choosing a free online email account.

Now, the Hotmail team has announced that it will offer free POP3 services to regular Hotmail users over the next 12 months. The server information is as follows: