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Microsoft has announced lately that POP3 technology is now available to Hotmail users in some countries (Egypt is not among them for sure!). However, you can overcome this restriction by changing the country in your hotmail account profile to one of these countries : United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands (I have tried UK & France). Wait few minutes then add your hotmail settings and check your mail.
How to do this :
- Open Settings.
- Choose Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
- Choose Add account.
- Choose Other.
- Type Your Name, Address (Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com)
and Password (The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live) then Tap Save. - When It tells you that you need a windows live hotmail plus subscription, Tap Next then close Settings.
- Open Mail and Check your Hotmail account.
If you’re interested to learn more about Microsoft latest announcement and POP3 check out this video, the speaker is Omar Shahine, lead program manager for Windows Live Hotmail, he is Egyptian btw.
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January 31st, 2009 at 11:07 pm
now this for sure is an interesting post
January 31st, 2009 at 11:24 pm
“cannot get mail…..The user name or password for “pop3.live.com” is incorrect” i entered the info correctly so im not sure whats wrong. any help here?
January 31st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
i mean do u need to make anythn special i went and changed my pesonal info from egypt to united kingdom
February 1st, 2009 at 12:33 am
Nothing special just the steps I mentioned. Where did you get this message? in Settings or in Mail ?
February 1st, 2009 at 12:50 am
I couldn’t get it to work turns out my account is U.S, anyways I searched for a while and came across this, from windows live mail support
” We request users in other countries not to change their country settings in their profile as this will be based on the combination of the country in their profile and IP of the country that you login with.”
http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/13/pop3-availability-in-windows-live-hotmail.aspx
February 1st, 2009 at 3:13 am
It is still working for me. Logging from Egypt while the account is assigned to UK.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Guys did anyone else succeed at this ?
February 1st, 2009 at 11:18 pm
i get after step 6 in settings
February 1st, 2009 at 11:31 pm
admin is there an emotion for being confused bec this isnt working :S
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
after you change your country and postcode.. you have to sign out and then sign in again for the changes to take effect.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Make sure that u choose pop not imap and then
Incoming : pop3.live.com
while the outgoing server is : smtp.live.com
after that just tab save and everything should work perfectly
June 30th, 2009 at 11:15 am
it is working perfectly with me.
Thanks