Hotmail push mail starts today...is yours working yet?

[vbtwo31984]

Is there a way to set this up on a Mac other than pop3?

Not that I'm aware of. As far as I know there are no desktop clients that use Exchange ActiveSync protocol.

On Windows, Live Mail and Outlook (via the connector) both support Hotmail, but this is through some proprietary MS protocol. I don't think that there's anything on the Mac side that does it (maybe Outlook in the new Office that's coming out?).

 

[andybno1]

not impressed with this new service, I hadn't had a peep out of hotmail all day..... got home boom I got emails waiting

 

[drkash]

not impressed with this new service, I hadn't had a peep out of hotmail all day..... got home boom I got emails waiting

Thats strange, mine been working great. Are you sure you have the settings set to push rather than maunal fetch?

What happens when you open up your inbox? Does it connect and sync ok?

 

[Laimbeersux]

Thats strange, mine been working great. Are you sure you have the settings set to push rather than munal fetch?

What happens when you open up your inbox? Does it connect and sync ok?

Agreed, that's probably your issue, I set mine up for my personal msn.com email account this afternoon and it works great. Go into Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendar, then go down to the part where it says "Fetch New Data." Open that one, turn the Push setting to On, then select the schedule on the bottom that you want. I have no wifi at work and am off-network while at work too so I just leave it on Manually. I just switched it to every 15 minutes and it appears to work the way you want it. Give it a try, should be fine now.

 

[andybno1]

had google sync setup since I got the ip4 on release day never had any issues, all set for push just did a test then an worked but yesterday nowt very strange

 

[Sgt93]

Thank you for the info!

 

[senorcameltoe]

Hotmail Exchange revealing BCC recipients to all

I've had the Hotmail ActiveSync working on my iPhone for a few weeks now and I love it. HOWEVER, it appears that there are still some serious kinks to work out. Whenever I send a message the Exchange server is NOT stripping off the BCC headers from the email. So, all the email recipients can see who was "blind copied" on the message.

Give it a try - send yourself or a friend an email and bcc someone else (or yourself). Now open up the message in Hotmail from a desktop browser. Click the little carrot that expands the details on the recipients and you'll see that your BCC folks displayed along side the other recipients. I've tested this sending it to a Gmail address as well, so it doesn't appear to be an internal Hotmail to Hotmail issue.

Please test it out and let me know if you are / aren't able to reproduce the issue. I've verified it on two different Hotmail accounts with two different iPhones at this point.

At the very least, everyone should be aware of this until they fix the issue.