A mail provider for MS Outlook

Crabman

I currently use Hotmail and gmail, but since I've installed Outlook, I was wondering if there are providers which offer some sort of POP3 service so I can use Outlook on here which without a doubt would be faster.

I tried using hotmail/gmail - no joy

Cheers :beer:

Crabster

foxwales

You can use your hotmail and gmail accounts through your OUTLOOK, just simple look on google for "configuring mail clients in outlook".

superscaper

foxwales wrote: »

You can use your hotmail and gmail accounts through your OUTLOOK, just simple look on google for "configuring mail clients in outlook".

Hotmail is dependant on the age of the account and whether you have to pay a subscription for pop3.

foxwales

Hotmail is a free POP3 mail account and you can auto configure it with Outlook without any issues. So I have to disagree with you there.

ellybelly89

hotmail does not work with windows live mail the successor to outlook. i've read in other threads that outlook now charge if you want to link it to your hotmail.

cledor

Only old Hotmail.com accounts work for free in Outlook Express, but GMail should be OK.

You'll need to get GMail to autoconfig your email client settings, otherwise it is likely to fail in POP3, this is done when you enable the POP3 setting from within GMail.

superscaper

foxwales wrote: »

Hotmail is a free POP3 mail account and you can auto configure it with Outlook without any issues. So I have to disagree with you there.

I respectfully disagree and include the following quote from hotmail's own FAQ:
"To protect our users from the increasing amount of unsolicited junk e-mail or spam sent from MSN Hotmail accounts through Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express, we have reluctantly had to restrict the new use of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express to subscribers."

And when it was announced a few years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3697286.stm

Getafix

Web2pop any good for you?

Crabman

You're right and I've just managed to set up gmail on it - for some reason last time I tried gmail it didn't work, this time it configured it automatically. Web2pop sounds interesting too.

Unfortunately as my hotmail is a new-ish account it isn't compatible with pop mail unless I subscribe for a fee, that's not going to happen :rotfl:

Cheers, appreciate your help :beer: