E200 hotmail can you use the outlook client to connect

[Guest podavies]

Well can you. :roll:

[Guest chucky.egg]

AFAIK the answer is NO

The mail client is a POP3 (& IMAP?) client, but Hotmail is not a POP3/IMAP service

[Guest statscat]

Tis sadly true you can't add hotmail to your "inbox" email accoutns.

You can add it into the contacts as a web address (so you can get to it from contacts as well as PIE)

[Guest podavies]

Tis sadly true you can't add hotmail to your "inbox" email accoutns.

You  can add it into the contacts as a web address (so you can get to it from contacts as well as PIE)

You would have thought they would have fixed this from 2002

[Guest statscat]

To the best of my knowledge if you want your hotmail you have to log in to hotmail on a phone or PV or pocket pc, its a web based rather pop3,IMAP mail app. I guess thats the way MS want hotmail to work, Its more of a deficiency in hotmail rather than the phone, but I agree hotmail and microsoft should look at incorporating access directly into the device rather than via the traditional IE approach.

[Guest kingdom master]

THERE is a way im using it, ill post it soon. regards tom

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

You can either use IzyMail, a paid for service that exposes an imap interface to hotmail, or run an app like hotmail popper on your own server to give you pop access.

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Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest kingdom master]

or as i do find the i p settins 4 ur inbox etc and using hotmails pop settings u can do it. thats how i do it, works most of the time tom Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest podavies]

To the best of my knowledge if you want your hotmail you have to log in to hotmail on a phone or PV or pocket pc, its a web based rather pop3,IMAP mail app. I guess thats the way MS want hotmail to work, Its more of a deficiency in hotmail rather than the phone, but I agree hotmail and microsoft should look at incorporating access directly into the device rather than via the traditional IE approach.

How can it be be a problem with hotmail when i can do it from my desktop PC with outlook, I understand that outlook client is cut down version but this was a big complaint with the orignal software that should have been sorted.

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

or as i do find the i p settins 4 ur inbox etc and using hotmails pop settings u can do it. thats how i do it, works most of the time   tom                              Posted from my SmartPhone!

Hotmail doesn't have a POP server.

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[Guest stickman]

When you access Hotmail from your desktop PC, you are talking to it over HTTP, not POP or IMAP. Go back through the config to set up Outlook to talk to Hotmail. You will see that you have all three of those options (HTTP, IMAP, POP) whereas, in the Smartphone Inbox, you only have IMAP and POP as options. I know that sucks, but that is the way it is. Someone needs to write an add-in for the Smartphone Inbox that will allow you to talk via HTTP. Someone wrote one for the PocketPC a while back and it worked very well.

For now, we are stuck using mobile.msn.com to get hotmail, but that is going away soon isn't it?

[Guest podavies]

When you access Hotmail from your desktop PC, you are talking to it over HTTP, not POP or IMAP.  Go back through the config to set up Outlook to talk to Hotmail.  You will see that you have all three of those options (HTTP, IMAP, POP) whereas, in the Smartphone Inbox, you only have IMAP and POP as options.  I know that sucks, but that is the way it is.  Someone needs to write an add-in for the Smartphone Inbox that will allow you to talk via HTTP.  Someone wrote one for the PocketPC a while back and it worked very well.

For now, we are stuck using mobile.msn.com to get hotmail, but that is going away soon isn't it?

But why would anyone write a add on for the smartphone that people would find useful,l dont we need more games and file explorers

[Guest glynton]

Before the summer I heard that 2003 would support a pocket version of MSN explrer. There was a topic with some presentation slides showing it in action. Looks good... I'll be signing up for it if that's the case! (I use MSN 8 at home)

[Guest chucky.egg]

But why would anyone write a add on for the smartphone that people would find useful,l dont we need more games and file explorers

Yeah, lets have another Tetris clone and a Chess game before people start wasting time on useful stuff! :roll: