Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Setting up POP3 for Hotmail account on Android phone

Here are the steps to setup a POP3 account for hotmail on your android phone


1. Click on Add Account
a. Enter Full username
b. Enter password
Click on Manual Setup




2. Incoming POP3 Mail Server Setting :
User Name : user@hotmail.com
Password : your email password
Incoming Mail Server/Pop3 Server : pop3.live.com
Port : 995
Security Type : SSL
Click on Next.
If settings are OK and password is valid, you will be asked to enter outgoing mail server settings-




3. Outgoing POP3 Mail Server Setting :
Outgoing Mail Server/SMTP Server : smtp.live.com
Port : 587
Security (Port)/Security Type : SSL/TLS
User Name : user@hotmail.com
Password : your email password




4. Configure Account options as you want.




5. Set up an account name for this account.


That's it!

5 comments:

  1. hi I tried the settings above on my Samsung Infuse Android. I get the error message "Setup could not finish. Unable to connect server.' please assist. I followed the above steps exactly as described 3 times. I have a hotmail account if that helps. thanks.

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  2. Were you able to finish Incoming server settings? If YES, then try these alternative for outgoing server settings
    Port - 25

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  3. hi I tried the settings above on my Samsung Infuse Android. I get the error message "Setup could not finish. Unable to connect server.' please assist. I followed the above steps exactly as described 3 times. I have a hotmail account if that helps. thanks.

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  4. A desperately nd help,a cnt send e mails,it keeps saying username invalid,its 4 my hotmail account plzzzzzz help thx :'( much appreciated thanks

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  5. it also not working for coolpad 3

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