Can i run hotmail through mail?

[mkrishnan]

i cant get my hotmail or gmail acount to workies in my Mail program. can u give us a quick run down of how u did it?? please??

Please start with GMail... they provide very, very explicit, step-by-step instructions with pictures. Go here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275&topic=1556

And then say either which step does not work for you or exactly, explicitly what error message you get. Then after we have GMail working for you, we'll help you with HM.

 

[DoFoT9]

Please start with GMail... they provide very, very explicit, step-by-step instructions with pictures. Go here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275&topic=1556

And then say either which step does not work for you or exactly, explicitly what error message you get. Then after we have GMail working for you, we'll help you with HM.

thanks for that!!!! gmail worked a treat!!!

as for HM.....
•i have installed httpmail
•i select it as my account type
•i put in my email address
•incoming server as 'hotmail.com' which is what i understand is what u use.
•for username i put in 'jordan_lives', not the '@hotmail.com' part..... not sure if u need to ad the whole thing
•outgoing server automatically sets itself to 'services.msn.com:jordan_lives'
•i try to remove the outging server by setting it to none but it sets itself back to wateva it last was.
•in the outgoing settings its using port 25 with authentication being password, with my email and password being entered.

so yea any help would be greatly appreciated, im sure its just something really tiny that ive missed. thanks MR FTW!!!

oh and when i go to connection doctor the hotmail account connects, but the 'services.msn.com:jordan_lives' SMTP thingo doesnt connect. "Could not connect to this SMTP server, check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the account preferences"
i take it thats a mybad situation

 

[stork]

thanks for the advice!
ive finally decided what to do,
i'am a photographer and wanted the great way i could click photos in iPhoto and have them sent straight to a new message in Mail so ive created a gmail account and will run it through mail,
and i'am gonna keep my hotmail account for messanger, as ive had it to long to change!
thanks for the advice.

 

[mkrishnan]

oh and when i go to connection doctor the hotmail account connects, but the 'services.msn.com:jordan_lives' SMTP thingo doesnt connect. "Could not connect to this SMTP server, check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the account preferences"

So do you mean that incoming mail works fine, but you cannot send? Do you have another SMTP server from your ISP, etc? I'm not actually sure I've tried outgoing mail with httpmail... I just use whatever SMTP I use for everything else.

 

[DoFoT9]

So do you mean that incoming mail works fine, but you cannot send? Do you have another SMTP server from your ISP, etc? I'm not actually sure I've tried outgoing mail with httpmail... I just use whatever SMTP I use for everything else.

i am unable to connect the incoming or outgoing server. in instructions i have read it says to leave the outgoing server as blank, which Mail refuses to do... i have no idea of the SMTP servers that my ISP has. i will check that out 2day and have a look at it.

 

[katybetts]

HELP! hotmail probs with Mail

Hi, this has been posted loads of times but I can access my account through mail but I can't send anything! I have no idea where I can find the outgoing server? Please can someone tell me what the outgoing server is and you will solve all my problems!!!!

 

[furcalchick]

unlikely

i would have to say the chances of getting hotmail to work with mail.app are pretty slim. i tried a few tricks back when i got the macbook to sync the hotmail address i had for years, and none of them really worked. i eventually got gmail, and i love it. sending mail isn't as tedious, as i can just go into the app instead of going online, going through stupid ads and tabloid stories just to send simple emails. and hotmail is littered with spam more than ever. half the mail i get now is spam, and i have gotten not one spam letter from gmail in my eight months i've used it (i've kept my email address private, and i still post my hotmail address in public forums to keep it that way).

 

[mkrishnan]

Hi, this has been posted loads of times but I can access my account through mail but I can't send anything! I have no idea where I can find the outgoing server? Please can someone tell me what the outgoing server is and you will solve all my problems!!!!

If you're using MacFreePOPs or HTTPMail, the outgoing server should be the one your ISP provides (like your DSL or Cable provider, or whoever gives you physical access to the internet). If you don't know the outgoing server for your ISP, google the name of your ISP and "SMTP server". Typically it's something like smtp.xxxx.com.

 

[DoFoT9]

i cant get my hotmail to work with either of those two programs (httpmail or macfreepops) i think it has something to do with the version of hotmail you have. i have like a really old one.. i heard that mines not compatible. ahwell i have no idea.

 

[kolax]

I use HTTPMAIL with Mail and it works a treat.

I have a fairly old account, about 3-4 years, and works fine. Installation was easy, and followed the instructions and it is working fine.

Recently scrapped Entourage for Mail - a much lighter program and no lag either.

 

[sbluetruck]

will Yahoo! mail work fine???

 

[kolax]

will Yahoo! mail work fine???

There is a few plugins that will enable it to work.

Although this might help.

 

[MikeyTree]

I just hooked up my gmail, and it works fine, mostly. However, it only downloaded the gmail messages from the last month, and I can't figure out how to download all the messages I have on gmail.