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Hotmail now working in iPod Touch mail app
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pjg
14-01-2009
as the subject really. Presumably on the iPhone too

Go to Settings, select Mail... and Add Account, then other, then enter your Hotmail account details. It then comes up with a screen saying you need a premium account with live.com, just ignore that and click 'next' and it's all set up.

cool
CoolboyA
14-01-2009
Originally Posted by pjg:
“as the subject really. Presumably on the iPhone too

Go to Settings, select Mail... and Add Account, then other, then enter your Hotmail account details. It then comes up with a screen saying you need a premium account with live.com, just ignore that and click 'next' and it's all set up.

cool”

It won't work for me.
Just comes up with more advancd complicated setting such as "Incoming server" and "Host name" etc...

I don't know how this how Email configuration thing works.
sparkle~
14-01-2009
oooooooooh it worked ok for me
Realale
14-01-2009
Originally Posted by CoolboyA:
“It won't work for me.
Just comes up with more advancd complicated setting such as "Incoming server" and "Host name" etc...

I don't know how this how Email configuration thing works.”

Same here
crowncd
15-01-2009
Only had my Touch for a few days and no expert but Hotmail email set up was fine for me. What a gadget!
MrKev
15-01-2009
Worked perfectly on my iPhone.

No need to forward to gmail now.
aaronon
15-01-2009
I get "Try to connect without SSL?"

When I hit yes it says Verification of POP3 failed.
MrKev
15-01-2009
Could the failures have anything to do with account types?

I know my account is an old .com account I've since at lest 2002. Are the accounts where people are getting nowhere newer than that or .co.uk accounts?
boozer3
15-01-2009
Mine is a msn.com account and I get the same messages as aaronon.
cribology
15-01-2009
worked on my 1 gen ipod touch. Sweet.
CoolboyA
15-01-2009
I have a @live.co.uk account and use the new Windows Live.

Maybe that has sumit to do with it.
Realale
15-01-2009
I have a hotmail.co.uk account and can't get it to work for me.
MrKev
15-01-2009
Looks like it might be that then.

A hotmail.com address works for sure, at least myself and another 3 hotmail.com address holders have had it work. One of those people tried it on his Mac mail client and the pop3 worked on that too so it's not device specific.

tIt must be some older hotmail.com accounts being able to use hotmail plus features.
Blofeld
15-01-2009
I have a 7 year old hotmail.com account and I just set it up fine, it's working perfectly.

I've only had my touch for a few days, already the best post-christmas present I've ever bought myself.
Realale
16-01-2009
Oh well, not that desperate for it to be honest, like you say Blofeld it is still a great buy, couldn't be without it now!
daddycool
16-01-2009
Very nice! Works like a dream.
paulj48
16-01-2009
My @hotmail.com works but my wifes @hotmail.co.uk just gave me the mail server settings screen as other posters are getting. So I just copied the mail server settings from my @hotmail.com to my wifes @hotmail.co.uk and it now works.

I would post the server details but I'm at work now and its my wifes phone.
pjg
16-01-2009
Glad it's working for most of you. This might help for the rest:

Incoming Host Name: pop3.live.com

Outgoing SMTP: smtp.live.com

Server port (not sure if you need this): 995
paulj48
16-01-2009
Originally Posted by pjg:
“Glad it's working for most of you. This might help for the rest:

Incoming Host Name: pop3.live.com

Outgoing SMTP: smtp.live.com

Server port (not sure if you need this): 995”

Yes there the settings I used to get my wifes @hotmail.co.uk account to work on an Iphone

Should there be a tick in the box regarding leaving messages on the server? She wants to have both the iphone and hotmail through a browser synced the same.
pjg
16-01-2009
I haven't found a way of adding folders to the hotmail account on my iPod Touch - so if you choose to delete them from the server you have to manage all you emails within one folder on the iPod.

Depends what works best for you, I guess
TomDaOne
16-01-2009
Originally Posted by pjg:
“Glad it's working for most of you. This might help for the rest:

Incoming Host Name: pop3.live.com

Outgoing SMTP: smtp.live.com

Server port (not sure if you need this): 995”

Excellent, thanks for that pjg got it all set up now. By the way in case no one knew when doing the above you have to select POP at the top of the screen rather than IMAP.
Hutchy_Muse
16-01-2009
Originally Posted by pjg:
“I haven't found a way of adding folders to the hotmail account on my iPod Touch - so if you choose to delete them from the server you have to manage all you emails within one folder on the iPod.

Depends what works best for you, I guess”

Thank you!! was just about to fork out £6 for the mail app! Thank you thank you!
DOS
16-01-2009
Hotmail used to allow pop3 access (maybe imap too, not sure though), but then changed it to a paid-for feature. Maybe its working for people who had a hotmail account before the change?
darknesshayz
16-01-2009
Thanks for that it worked for me to, after two attampts!
Hutchy_Muse
16-01-2009
Is anyone else having trouble emailing people on it??
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