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How To use Hotmail in Mail app Guide (proper way)

Mail.app retrieved hotmail messages from 2004 to 2006 and doesn't retrieve newer messages, did this happen to somebody else??
 
Is it possible to Sync accounts

Alright just added hotmail to the mail.app works like a charm. It downloaded all the old mails and was able to send mail through mail.app as well.

Question is if i delete email from mail.app is there any way it would also delete mail from the hotmail server. So far i have t separately delete mails

Alright figured it out. In advanced setting change Remove copy from the server after retrieving message to

When moved from the Inbox.

Also worked like a charm for the iPhone

Thanks

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emdotdee said:
I've just added hotmail and mail.app is constantly crashing as it tries to retreive old mail from the account :-(

EDIT/UPDATE: I just turned off growlmail and the crashes have stopped. Growlmail was fine before adding the hotmail account though.
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It's not crashing because of Hotmail but because of Safari 4 ;)
 
I am in Louisiana, and this worked great on my Mail.app. It took all the messages I hadn't deleted yet and brought them to my MacBook. Sweet, it was about time this happened.
 
This is awesome, indeed, but what about folders?

In hotmail (the website) I have many of my previous emails organized into folders, i.e., a folder for bills, a folder for messages to and from a specific person, a folder for purchases, etc. The Sent folder, itself, is one of these folders.

While this new tip does work, the only folder that is downloaded is the Inbox. Has anyone found a way of getting Apple's Mail to download the messages in the other Hotmail folders?

My only idea would be to go into Hotmail (the website) and transfer all these old messages out of their folders and back into the Inbox. Then, when I "get mail" again in Apple's Mail the rest of the messages should get downloaded. I would have to create folders in Mail and sort through these messages again, of course. It would be nice to skip this step, though.
 
Hotmail fix

mkrishnan said:
I don't understand your question... if you enable Hotmail POP access in Mail, it will look and function like any other account in Mail. If you enable it in Thunderbird, it will look and function like any other account in Thunderbird. Ditto for Outlook, the iPhone, Eudora, etc, etc.

If you want the Windows Live or Hotmail interfaces, you can still always use a web browser, even after you have enabled POP access.
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I sort of figured that but just wanted to make sure. I was confused by your photo, and thanks:)
 
Yeah, I'm in the US and I still can't get my hotmail to work with mail. I get it all somewhat configured with mail then when it asks for password I keep getting the pop has rejected my password and I can't go any further then that. Anyone know what the issue is??? I have an old hotmail one from like 1997. Thanks.
 
Didn't really know where to post this, figured here's as good as anywhere. I've followed the instructions but they don't seem to be working:



And in the settings it's set as UK (seeing as that's where I'm from...)

Cheers
 
Is there a proper way to do yahoo! mail yet. Last time I checked I needed the monthly subscription type of yahoo!

-cfs
 
download hotmail folder structure

zombitronic said:
This is awesome, indeed, but what about folders?

In hotmail (the website) I have many of my previous emails organized into folders, i.e., a folder for bills, a folder for messages to and from a specific person, a folder for purchases, etc. The Sent folder, itself, is one of these folders.

While this new tip does work, the only folder that is downloaded is the Inbox. Has anyone found a way of getting Apple's Mail to download the messages in the other Hotmail folders?

My only idea would be to go into Hotmail (the website) and transfer all these old messages out of their folders and back into the Inbox. Then, when I "get mail" again in Apple's Mail the rest of the messages should get downloaded. I would have to create folders in Mail and sort through these messages again, of course. It would be nice to skip this step, though.
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I have the same problem as Zombitronic, the only folder downloaded from
hotmail to Apple Mail is the 'Inbox'. Anyone knows how to download/sync
the other hotmail folders in Apple Mail (Sent, Draft, Junk and own created folders)?

Thanks!
 
How can I delete the first mail account I created in error, on this snapshot, please?
 

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Thank you for this. I was using that plugin up until now. (I just did a clean install for a new 500 GB WD Scorpio Blue in my macbook) This seems to be working better than the plugin (for now).

Cheers!
 
bu**er me!!

hotmail onto the mail app on iPhone!!! (works here in NZ).

Pitty is is only POP rather than IMAP, but bettwe than nothing!

I was sceptical, given last time I tride 8 moths ago it didn't work.

(It's got more to do with the fact that Microsoft are now alowing POP forwarding for free rather than being a new method, BUT THAKS FOR POINTING IT OUT)

++++++

bu**r me again, my mail app icon on my phone now shows 137 new messages! I'm going to have to deleate arrrrr!
 
tarapiatapioco said:
I have the same problem as Zombitronic, the only folder downloaded from
hotmail to Apple Mail is the 'Inbox'. Anyone knows how to download/sync
the other hotmail folders in Apple Mail (Sent, Draft, Junk and own created folders)?

Thanks!
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Becasue its POP not IMAP. (ie it downloads new messages, but dosn't sync with the mail server so you can't switch messages or folders about)
 
179202 said:
Great guide. Works like a charm! (I did this last week).

It only works for certain countries right now and microsoft are rolling out free pop3 access country by country. If you check their blog, you can see which countries are working and which are not.

UK is fine.
America is a no no for now (i'm guessing due to the size).

Dan x
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So couldn't you just set your location in Hotmail to UK and then have pop3 access?
 
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