Hotmail To Iphone

[taran420]

So i searched this forum and found out that many were having the same problem as me about getting hotmail emails on iphone

well after doing some research, i found izymail, but that too you had to pay for it, so no good

Finally after doing extensive research i found a way for hotmail users to get emails to iphone (works for me)

so for this to work you need
-Gmail account
-hotmail which you already have

heres the steps
1) First open your gmail account, go to setting, then account, then under "send email as" click Add another email address, and then add your hotmail account info.

2) Then log into hotmail and confirm the gmail verification that you added the hotmail account

3) In Hotmail, go to Options, then select "Mobile alerts for new messages". Go through the steps (the verfication code could take upto 10 mins for you to get). Then when you are customizing the mobile service, select that you dont want to recive text alerts when you recieve an email. click next and back to hotmail when you save it.

4) Then in Hotmail, go to options, and select "Forward mail to another e-mail account". now add your gmail account, and it will let you.

5) Test it out, you should get your hotmail emails forwarded to gmail, thus your iphone

*I am assuming you know how to setup your gmail account in iphone
**Also dont flame me if it was posted, or you guys know it. I searched a lot and couldnt find all the info at one place, so hopefully this will help some people.

Let me know how it goes

[dwykstra]

just curious... why do you have to do step 3? can't you just forward to your gmail account, and that be it?

[doobi18]

just wondering - what is the point of steps 1 & 2? Because you don't want your gmail sending as hotmail and i can't imagine that it affect the hotmail process...


just curious... why do you have to do step 3? can't you just forward to your gmail account, and that be it?

it doesn't normally let you

[taran420]

just wondering - what is the point of steps 1 & 2? Because you don't want your gmail sending as hotmail and i can't imagine that it affect the hotmail process...




it doesn't normally let you

for some reason, it didnt work when i didnt (grammar) do those step....it was odd, as soon as i added hotmail to gmail, it started working. Doing this doesnt do anything, it wonr make your gmail send as hotmail unless you set it up

[nateco]

wow...I've been trying to figure out how to do this forever.

thanks

[thechidz]

doesnt work. I get stuck on step 4

Warning You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.

[DeejayPancake]

I finally can read my hotmail crap. Yes, it's crap. But I have too much stuff signed up w/ my hotmail account to NOT have it

[taran420]

doesnt work. I get stuck on step 4

Warning You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.

did you do the mobile alerts part? thats what makes the hotmail bypass that msg and allows you to forward to gmail....it should work, since i never paid for hotmail, and has worked for others

[dancavallaro]

I did the first 3 steps, but at step 4, there's no option to forward to another email account..

[taran420]

I did the first 3 steps, but at step 4, there's no option to forward to another email account..

are u using the newer version. i have the classic view and when i click options, then under "manage your account" their is a option to forward emails

[thechidz]

did you do the mobile alerts part? thats what makes the hotmail bypass that msg and allows you to forward to gmail....it should work, since i never paid for hotmail, and has worked for others
yes I even got the confirmation code by text on my iphone... wierd Ill try again I guess'

[thechidz]

still doesnt work for me. effing frustrating god I hate hotmail. I dont reaaaaally need this to work because I access hotmail on my mac via macfreepops...

[doobi18]

yes yes yes yes yes yes

easy set up - got confirmation code - disabled alerts - forwarding to my gmail


all my hotmails now arrive in my gmail acount immediately - on mac & iphone!


i'll never have to log on to blidy windows live crapmail again! yay!:):):):)

[cyrax83]

forwarding to gmail might be a bad idea.
doesnt hotmail automatically close your account if you dont log in within 90 days ?

[thechidz]

forwarding to gmail might be a bad idea.
doesnt hotmail automatically close your account if you dont log in within 90 days ?

120 but i think they send you a reminder somehow?

[rockinrocker]

forwarding to gmail might be a bad idea.
doesnt hotmail automatically close your account if you dont log in within 90 days ?

or you can just, you know, check via hotmail once in a while....

[geenosr]

doesnt work. I get stuck on step 4

Warning You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.

I too have tried it several times and all I get is the same message in the quote. I have been using "Classic", and I even switched to "Live" to see if that would work. Nothing I do gets me past the same warning.

Anyone else having the same problem?

I really don't like hotmail, but I've given that e-address out for years.......

[taran420]

I too have tried it several times and all I get is the same message in the quote. I have been using "Classic", and I even switched to "Live" to see if that would work. Nothing I do gets me past the same warning.

Anyone else having the same problem?

I really don't like hotmail, but I've given that e-address out for years.......

Its really weird since i have now tried this on 3 accounts and they all allow me to forward after setting up my mobile alerts part...

[BOSS10L]

I'll try this for my wife.

[dubstar]

I'm not even getting the code sent to my hotmail account......

[taran420]

I'm not even getting the code sent to my hotmail account......

you will get a verification code on your mobile device, it will be a sms, and sometimes it takes a while for it to send

[dubstar]

ok, got the code via text.

but like others, getting stuck on step 4, only able to foward to hotmail, msn, live.......


how are you getting around this??

[taran420]

ok, got the code via text.

but like others, getting stuck on step 4, only able to foward to hotmail, msn, live.......


how are you getting around this??

how old is your acct? Try opening a test acct and see if it works on that

[devobail]

Em, just out of curiosity. Why cant the iphone do hotmail? It is suppose to be a smart phone right?

[thechidz]

Em, just out of curiosity. Why cant the iphone do hotmail? It is suppose to be a smart phone right?

it has nothing to do with the iphone's capabilities. the iphone CAN do hotmail, you just have to pay micro$oft a premium so they will allow it.

[dubstar]

how old is your acct? Try opening a test acct and see if it works on that

its severla years old. i will try a new account later or tomorrow

[taran420]

its severla years old. i will try a new account later or tomorrow

do you have the "windows live" thingy....if not try updating to that

[ad551]

Don't know why that works, but it does!

Thank you so much...now I never have to log into Hotmail again :D:D:D

[txr0ckabilly]

can't make it work either :(

[Chocomonsters]

I was able to forward my wife's hotmail to her gmail, but it will not work for my hotmail to gmail.

We both have old Hotmail accounts with WebDAV active. So having active WebDAV on Hotmail doesn't seems to make a difference.

[Chocomonsters]

As for keeping Hotmail active without actually doing login, try using Outlook Connector if you use Outlook. One could only check Hotmail with Outlook only if you had paid account or old hotmail account (with WebDAV active), but now MS allows everyone to check hotmail from Outlook.

Since outlook will check hotmail regulary, you dont have to worry about loosing hotmail account.

[welshy1812]

Thanks for this, took a wee bit of fiddling to figure out that I had to change my location to UK but got it worked out in the end. Been looking for a solution like this for a long time.

Well done fella ! :D

[dubstar]

tried creating a new account, still didnt work.

frustrating to say the least.....

[jarvijarv]

This is how i get to my Hotmail account:

1) On your mac(pc) computer, bookmark the sign in page of your Hotmail account.
2) Connect your iPhone 3G to your computer and iSync your bookmarks.
3) Once iSync is completed, go to Safari on your iPhone 3G, and you will be able to upload your Homail account from the bookmarks.

It's a longer process, but works for me! :D

[PDXTITO]

Do be careful not to contribute to the spread of disinformation. Its obvious to all that you haven't even TRIED to do this. This is a known workaround for hotmail users in the iPhone Tech Support community.

doesnt work. I get stuck on step 4

Warning You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.

[dubstar]

Do be careful not to contribute to the spread of disinformation. Its obvious to all that you haven't even TRIED to do this. This is a known workaround for hotmail users in the iPhone Tech Support community.

ummmm, so you are saying the people(myself included) that have said they tried it but it doesnt work for them are lying? thats rediculous, being that they WANT this to work for them.

[RoboCop001]

Awesome! It works.

Now I just need to wait for my iPhone. Come oooooon shipments!

[thechidz]

Do be careful not to contribute to the spread of disinformation. Its obvious to all that you haven't even TRIED to do this. This is a known workaround for hotmail users in the iPhone Tech Support community.

wtf???? what part of it didnt work for me do you not understand? why the hell would I spam? look at the number below my avatar, that means I have been a member of this site for a long time and have over a thousand posts, who are you newbie?:p

[rioja]

ok, got the code via text.

but like others, getting stuck on step 4, only able to foward to hotmail, msn, live.......


how are you getting around this??

My friend bought a 3G and wanted to fwd Hotmail->Gmail. I had been doing this for about 6 months with my 2G so I went to set it up for him.

To my surprise it didn't work :confused: Then I went to my account and removed the Gmail fwd (since my Hotmail is all junk anyway). I tried to re-add it and it worked perfectly.

I think there is a bug in Hotmail that's allowing some people to add Gmail.

[dtgreg]

how old is your acct? Try opening a test acct and see if it works on that

Had to wait awhile for microsoft to get it all straight. Had same error mess on step 4; try waiting, logging on and off, visiting your calendar, etc. It finally just started working for me with no warning -- I just tride my gmail add for the nth time and it went thru. Do follow the steps recommended above. Now just waiting to see if iPhone set up properly but not too woried.

Goodbye SHizymail!

[rockinrocker]

well, i can't get it to work. i've tried about 20 times and keep getting the "only able to foward to hotmail, msn, live......."

any ideas?

and btw, i guess i don't understand what setting up mobile alerts has to do with this? it seems like that's completely unrelated. or am i missing something?

[Phillyzero]

People have to stop using hotmail, the only thing it was good for was MSN (and you don't need hotmail address anymore for that anymore). :/

[swr2000]

well, i can't get it to work. i've tried about 20 times and keep getting the "only able to foward to hotmail, msn, live......."

any ideas?

and btw, i guess i don't understand what setting up mobile alerts has to do with this? it seems like that's completely unrelated. or am i missing something?

Can't you guys just open this on your Safari app?

http://home.mobile.msn.com

Hotmail is in the upper left corner......

[goodcow]

Em, just out of curiosity. Why cant the iphone do hotmail? It is suppose to be a smart phone right?

Because Microsoft uses a proprietary standard to connect to the free version, unlike Yahoo and GMail which use IMAP.

You can use POP on Hotmail, but that's $20 a year.

[rockinrocker]

OK, if we could eliminate the "just use safari/you need to get rid of hotmail" comments that would be helpful. i've had this email address for years and don't want to change, and half the time safari won't log into hotmail properly (or at all).
thanks.


so, i've been trying to get this to work, but keep getting the "must have hotmail/msn domain" error.

would it help if mobile alerts were still on when changing the setting or something? i guess i'll try that next.

any other thoughts?

[rockinrocker]

well, as i kind of expected having mobile alerts on didn't help. i also switched between "classic" and "full" versions and that didn't make any difference either.

hmmmm....

[mgk65]

I have not had any luck doing this either. I've had this hotmail account for probably 10 years now.

[BaldyUK]

Worked for me. My account is a few years old.

[rockinrocker]

i tried switching my location to UK, but that didn't work either....
:confused:

i'm really confused as to why the would work for some of us, but not others?
there must be some sort of pattern or something...
(puts on sherlock holmes hat)

[punitnaker]

I've used the izymail route and regret paying the £10.95

I've just set up my girlfriends iphone to forward her 2 hotmail accounts to her new gmail address. She's been complaining that this phone doesnt do nething!

Neway, follow each and every step and it works.

thanks to the OP saved me £20 (for 2 accounts)

[Clyde099]

Thanks for this. Coworker of mine will find this useful.

[ttech10]

or you can just, you know, check via hotmail once in a while....

Yea I don't see what's so hard about logging into hotmail.com once a month...

[cheetah007]

bit off topic...but if you log into msn messenger does that qualify as a hotmail 'login'? this way i won't have to log in every 120 days (i know it's not a great hassle - but would still be nice to know)

[mlmichels]

I was able to set up my "mail" option on my iPhone to retrieve my Hotmail under "other" - I just typed in my email and password and it verified the information and added that account. Fingers crossed, this has been great in the last week since I set it up.

FYI, I have had my Hotmail address since 1998 and am a "premium" user (meaning that I paid the extra $20/year).

[steamed.hams]

Yea I don't see what's so hard about logging into hotmail.com once a month...

There's nothing difficult about it, but it would be very nice to have your emails zapped right to your phone just like it does with my gmail account.


I'll give the OP's method a try and report back.

[steamed.hams]

4) Then in Hotmail, go to options, and select "Forward mail to another e-mail account". now add your gmail account, and it will let you.

^ I got stuck on that step and was handed this disclaimer:

"You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again. "

:mad:

[JL7]

Followed direction to a T and it worked for me :cool:

[yode]

followed directions to the T and it didn't work for me

[Geckotek]

^ I got stuck on that step and was handed this disclaimer:

"You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again. "

:mad:

Yup, this option is only there in 3 circumstances:

1) You have a VERY old Hotmail account - I can't quantify this except to say that I have 2 hotmail accounts and the older of the 2 has it.
2) You pay for the premium service
3) You work for Microsoft and sign-up for the Live dogfood

[steamed.hams]

Yup, this option is only there in 3 circumstances:

1) You have a VERY old Hotmail account - I can't quantify this except to say that I have 2 hotmail accounts and the older of the 2 has it.
2) You pay for the premium service
3) You work for Microsoft and sign-up for the Live dogfood


If that's the case, then I'd consider shelling out the extra $20 for premium service. That's less than 6 cents a day to have your hotmail on your iphone.

[yode]

Hey guys, this may be a tiny bit off topic, but do you guys know a way to transfer all your hotmail emails onto your gmail, like not forward each time a new email comes, but just to put old emails onto your gmail. And not with the sender being my hotmail address, but with the original address that emailed me. Thanks!
BTW I am using OS X

[gugy]

If that's the case, then I'd consider shelling out the extra $20 for premium service. That's less than 6 cents a day to have your hotmail on your iphone.

That's not guaranteed.

I contacted MSN and they said that could work but they did not say it was for sure.

If anybody here have the premium Hotmail account and can gives us some feedback regarding if Hotmail indeed work just like gmail, I would appreciate.

I don't mind paying $20 p/year, but I want to make sure it does work before paying MSN.;)

[cotxia]

I don't mind paying $20 p/year, but I want to make sure it does work before paying MSN.;)

If you guys don't mind paying 20 bones a year try izymail. I use it and it works perfectly.

[steamed.hams]

If anybody here have the premium Hotmail account and can gives us some feedback regarding if Hotmail indeed work just like gmail, I would appreciate.

I don't mind paying $20 p/year, but I want to make sure it does work before paying MSN.;)

Truth

[gugy]

If you guys don't mind paying 20 bones a year try izymail. I use it and it works perfectly.

Possibly,
But actually I rather pay MSN if officially gives me the option to use it on the iPhone. Plus I get more perks like higher storage and larger email capacity.

[steamed.hams]

That's not guaranteed.

I contacted MSN and they said that could work but they did not say it was for sure.

That sucks.

[Goodbye Dell]

Paying microsoft $20/year ($30 in Canada) for the premium hotmail account has worked for me on two different occasions. I figured this out when my mother was trying to get her hotmail account on her Blackberry a few months ago. I looked online everywhere, looked at Izymail and some other options then I came upon Windows Live Hotmail Plus. She paid $30 Canadian for the premium account and then a few minutes later tried adding her account to her BB again and it worked almost instantaneously.

I bought my iPhone two days ago and tried to set up Hotmail on the phone as is and it didn't work. I googled "hotmail plus" and it took me here: http://get.live.com/en-us/mailplus/features and i signed up for it, paid $20 with my credit card (I am currently living in the US. The Canadian url is http://get.live.com/en-ca/mailplus/features) There is a UK address as well I think. Don't know how much it matters.

Less than a minute after I tried my hotmail account again on my iPhone and it worked.

So if you think the money is worth it (personally I would have paid more than $20 since I have had this email address for several years and I still don't get spam) then go for it.

PS it seems that people who have had Hotmail for a really long time do not have to pay for the upgrade since they are already considered premium users. This explains why older hotmail addresses work already with iPhone, BB, etc. So don't pay unless you have to.

[steamed.hams]

Less than a minute after I tried my hotmail account again on my iPhone and it worked.

So if you think the money is worth it (personally I would have paid more than $20 since I have had this email address for several years and I still don't get spam) then go for it.

Awesome.

[gugy]

Less than a minute after I tried my hotmail account again on my iPhone and it worked.


PS it seems that people who have had Hotmail for a really long time do not have to pay for the upgrade since they are already considered premium users. This explains why older hotmail addresses work already with iPhone, BB, etc. So don't pay unless you have to.


Thanks Goodbye Dell.
I will pay MSN and hope for the best. In your case worked so I am pretty sure it will work for me as well.

As for old accounts being able to use on iPhone without paying MSN in my case it is not true. I have my Hotmail since 1995 and every time I try to forward email to let's say Gmail does not allow me. Go figure if work for some folks.

Anyway, pay $20 a year for microsh•t is not the end of the world, specially because I do not have to go trough the hassle of going everywhere and switching my email settings.

cheers. :)

[Pared]

Does this allow deletion of your emails from Hotmail? Or are you just reading emails from Hotmail and they just continue to sit there...

B/c if you delete it from GMail, it's not deleting it from Hotmail... right?

[milani]

This topic has already been solved (page 2 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=537038&page=2)). If you don't have the option to forward to a non MSN domain then you simply can't forward your Hotmail without paying for the premium service.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=537038&page=2

And yes, if you setup the Gmail account, forward your Hotmail (if you can), then you're only deleting the copy from Gmail if you delete an email from your iPhone; the original still stays in your Hotmail, save and sound. It's actually a nice backup, because it's not that hard to accidentally delete an email from your iPhone.

[moka]

Em, just out of curiosity. Why cant the iphone do hotmail? It is suppose to be a smart phone right?

it can, sign up for the premium hotmail plus account and you will be ready to use hotmail on your iphone as i was 2 minutes later..

http://get.live.com/mailplus/features

[Set Abominae]

Anyone know of a way to do this same thing but with yahoo, i have had hotmail for years but when i got the iphone i switched to yahoo instead of gmail is it possible to foward email to yahoo

[saracen]

I set this up a few months ago when I got my 3G and it works perfectly. I am in the UK and have had my account since 1999. Yesterday I set up my sister's 2 hotmail accounts to forward to her new GMail address and both times it worked perfectly.

For me I just need to be able to check my Hotmail while on the move. Yes you can check Hotmail using Safari but it's not as slick. Since I set this up I never login to Hotmail, although Messenger is always logged in.

You should be able to use this feature to forward to any email address not just GMail.

The reason for going through the Gmail verification is to allow you to send emails from Gmail but they have your Hotmail address as the sender. This only works via the browser and doesn't currently work with the iPhone. Has anyone found a way around this?

[tongteh]

If you want to get Hotmail right on your iPhone without all the problems have a look at mboxmail.

Here is the website:
http://mboxmail.com


Here is a short video introduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIeitaH0Pw

this application is stunning.. :) that's exactly what i am looking for, why do i have to forward it to my gmail and delete mails on hotmail?? that's just too troublesome! would be looking forward to the release of mboxmail!

[grantusmaximus]

I’ve found that you can achieve this in the reverse order :D using GMail as a step in between.. I was looking in to this for my iphone because GMail supports IMAPI, Hotmail didn’t so I’m finally making the switch.

Here are some instructions:

http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2009/04/making-the-switch-hotmail-to-gmail/

[Big Pope Daddy]

I’ve found that you can achieve this in the reverse order :D using GMail as a step in between.. I was looking in to this for my iphone because GMail supports IMAPI, Hotmail didn’t so I’m finally making the switch.

Here are some instructions:

http://www.childofthemachine.com/blog/2009/04/making-the-switch-hotmail-to-gmail/

The iphone now allows the hotmail to go thru...not sure if you realized that or not.

[medgirl2001]

The iphone now allows the hotmail to go thru...not sure if you realized that or not.

Hotmail is now allowing POP access from all accounts, but you lose the ability to keep all your folders synced. There are all the usual limitations of POP mail with that. I wish Hotmail would go IMAP, but that doesn't seem likely anytime soon.

It was mentioned earlier in this thread, but I have found mBox Mail to be a great solution for this. I actually like their latest release of their app better than the built-in mail app. It allows landscape use, and has an in-line web browser (which is nice if you like to click over to forums like this one when you get an email that your thread has been updated. You don't have to go in and out of the main Safari app for that). I am succesfully using mBox Mail with both a premium Hotmail account and a regular Hotmail account. Your mileage may vary, but it has been worth the money for me to be able to use Hotmail in a way that keeps everything synced. The only thing it lacks is push email, but hopefully that will be possible when iPhone 3.0 comes out.