Free POP3 Comes to Windows Live Hotmail

IT’S OFFICIAL..ish! You can now access your Windows Live Hotmail emails for free through POP3 (previously this was only for users who paid for Hotmail Plus). This means you no longer have to use Windows Live Mail or Outlook combined with the Live Connector. Microsoft is slowly rolling this out to all users, so if [...]

Posted by Beau Giles on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Filed under Blog, Guides · Tagged with Email, Hotmail, POP3, Windows Live

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6 Responses to “Free POP3 Comes to Windows Live Hotmail”

Rowan says:

January 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Finally… now I can move 8 years of Hotmail email to Gmail…

Maybe Microsoft really is changing? Windows 7 is pretty cool too.
Nathan says:

January 15, 2009 at 8:36 pm

C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan Brookfield>telnet pop3.live.com 110
Connecting To pop3.live.com…Could not open connection to the host, on port 110
: Connect failed
Alex H says:

January 25, 2009 at 8:58 pm

There was a problem connecting to pop3.live.com
Please contact Microsoft’s support team for more information on POP access.
Adam.P says:

December 20, 2009 at 2:10 pm

I have added my email account to my iPhone which is great but the only thing I cannot work out is how come all my email folders are not there also( I can only view my inbox) Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong or what else I need to do with my settings?
Bennie says:

April 29, 2011 at 9:29 am

I am an existing hotmail user but since they introduced hotmail.com.au accounts I also opened an acct but I can’t access this through my iPhone. What would the pop or smtp address be for an Aussie hotmail acct?
Angela says:

May 28, 2011 at 7:13 pm

I have followed all ur instruvtions to setup hotmail to my IPhone, and it comes up with the message:
“the user name or password for POP3.live.com” is incorrect.
Clearly they arent so what can I do??
Its been driving me crazy as I cant figure out what the hell is wrong…
Ahhhhh…
Angie