Windows Live Mail and Microsoft Office outlook is going to stop using Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol (DAP) for Windows Live Mail and Hotmail. if you currently access Hotmail using a desktop mail program like Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage, you may still be using the DAV protocol in these programs, and you’ll need to take action in order to continue getting your Hotmail.
If you use Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage to view Hotmail, the DAV protocol retirement may affect you. To continue receiving e-mail from your Hotmail account in one of these mail programs, please follow one of the recommended solutions below before September 1, 2009. After that date, new E-mail can only be delivered to your mail program through the following alternative solutions.
Hotmail POP3 access is finally available worldwide.In January, the feature trickled out to the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, as well as the Netherlands, and then arrived in the US and Brazil in February. here are the details you need to know for POP3:
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
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Microsoft Windows Live Mail or Hotmail team has added some cool feature to their mail service. Microsoft has made some significance improvements in Windows Live Mail and Hotmail in recent times. Today they have rolled out 6 new features to Hotmail users. Some of the feature are also presented and CES 2009. Let’s have a closer look to Hotmail’s new features
More room for messages: Microsoft has removed the top banner ad so Hotmail users can view more message listed in their inbox.
Ever growing storage: Windows Live Mail or Hotmail starts with a 5 GB of storage and the storage is automatically growing to fulfill your storage requirements. There is one more point to note is that Windows Live Mail and Hotmail users also has a 25 GB of Windows Skydrive storage.
Info at your fingertips : This is the most useful feature that Microsoft has added and Hotmail users are waiting for this feature when they have shown it on CES 2009. Info at your fingertip feature allows hotmail users to add local maps, direction, movie times, and more into their Emails with just one click.
A little more social : When Hotmail or Windows Live Mail users login into their accounts they are now welcomed with all their social activity page. This also include social activities of their friends. Currently social activity is displayed when Hotmail users go http://home.live.com page.
A new way to get Hotmail on your phone: Microsoft has added support for POP3 access of Hotmail and Windows Live Mail. Currently POP3 access is not supported in all countries.
More style:Windows Live Mail and Hotmail has got some more new themes and users can also edit their signature in HTML.
Source : Whoa, cool new features
Microsoft has finally start rolling out the support for pop3 access for it’s Email service including Windows Live Mail and Hotmail. With this pop3 support Windows Live mail and Hotmail users will be able to access their E-Mail accounts through a number of E-Mail clients software on their pc or mobile phone.
When you set up Hotmail in the E-mail program on your PC or mobile device, you may be asked for the following information:
POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes
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Microsoft hosted online services are now available for customers. Most importantly Exchange Online, Microsoft has published a really wonderful document on their TechNet Blog providing a complete information about to get started with Microsoft online services, configuring custom with Microsoft online services and how to migrate your existing pop3 E-Mail accounts to Microsoft online services.
Download POP3 Mailbox Migration Guide
