hotmail via OSX-Leopard Mail

[fjs08]

I get most of my mail through .mac, but I still have a bit coming to my old hotmail account. Is there a way to get that mail via my OSX Mail program??

I have OSX-Leopard 10.5.1.

Thanks.

Frank

 

[joefinan]

I belive not - hence why I left Hotmail a few years ago and went to Gmail.

Unless they've changed, Hotmail don't allow POP access (which is what you need to have Mail get emails for you).

 

[samh004]

I believe, not tried though, you can forward mail from Hotmail to another e-mail address. That would be the only way.

 

[pjrobertson]

We all know what Microsoft is like. Hotmail won't work with anything other than Outlook.

There are some 3rd party plugins around, but they're quite hard to set up, and don't always work.

You can't forward using hotmail, tried that already

Just another reason why I changed to gmail. It now has IMAP which works even better with Apple's Mail.

 

[clevin]

We all know what Microsoft is like. Hotmail won't work with anything other than Outlook.

Well, not very many email service providers give pop/imap service to users for free anyway. Not a exclusively M$ issue.

To OP, some extensions will work for thunderbird to check hotmail or yahoo

http://webmail.mozdev.org/index.html

 

[callmemike20]

You can pay $20 for a one year subscription of Live Hotmail Plus (i dont know the real name) and you get no advertisements. But you also get the option to forward the emails. I did that and now all my emails are forwarded to gmail which then goes to mac mail.

 

[hehedavid]

To get Hotmail emails to OS X Mail, I use "Daniel’s HTTPMail Plug-in 1.46" at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/danielshttpmailplugin.html.

I have been using it for a few months now and I really like it.
One thing you should be aware of is that I think I read somewhere that in order for it to work, that your Hotmail account should have been created long time ago. Hope it works for you.

 

[samh004]

You can pay $20 for a one year subscription of Live Hotmail Plus (i dont know the real name) and you get no advertisements. But you also get the option to forward the emails. I did that and now all my emails are forwarded to gmail which then goes to mac mail.

So you could do this for a year with a reply-to set to the new e-mail, then after a year your contacts should be sending to the right address. By then Hotmail will probably support POP

 

[slabman]

Gmail forwarding

Whazziz? I was unaware Gmail would forward to my MacMail. Can someone please tell me what the procedure is?

Also, once this mail is forwarded, I assume it will be unavailable through Gmail on another computer?

Thanks.