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Currently, only some users, including users who have a paid subscription to Windows Live Hotmail, can add a POP3 account to their Windows Live Hotmail account.
With Windows Live Hotmail you can receive, read, and respond to mail from other e-mail accounts. Some e-mail providers offer POP3 access and the ability for you to forward mail to another e-mail address. Contact your e-mail provider to determine whether they offer these features. If you have another e-mail account that has POP3 access, you can configure Windows Live Hotmail to receive mail from that POP3 account.

Add a POP3 account

• In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
• Under Manage your account, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
• Click Add a POP3 account.
• Enter the settings for the POP3 account below, and then click Save.

Incoming Server Settings

POP Server: pop3.live.com
Check the box that says "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)"
Port: Default SSL Port 995

To delete a POP3 account

• In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
• Under Manage your account, click Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts.
• Click delete to remove the POP3 account from your live mail.

Notes

• Only some users, including users who have a paid subscription to Windows Live Hotmail, can add a POP3 account to their Windows Live Hotmail account.
• You can add up to four POP3 accounts.
• To check the POP3 account for new mail, in the left pane, click Mail, and then click POP.
• E-mail services that use Secure POP (Also known as SSL POP3: Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL uses a specialized encryption method to help ensure secure communication over the Internet. POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is a protocol that's used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. With SSL POP3, the information that’s transmitted by using the POP3 protocol is directed through a layer of encryption named the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).) , such as Gmail, are not currently supported.
• The maximum size of an e-mail message that can be downloaded is 15 MB. Messages that are larger than 15 MB won't be downloaded.

You can download 500 messages at a time. If you have to download more than 500 messages, you'll have to download them 500 at a time.

Receive mail from non-POP3 accounts

With some e-mail providers, you may have the ability to forward e-mail to your Windows Live Hotmail account. Not all e-mail providers support this feature. For more information about how to forward e-mail, see the Help documentation for your other e-mail provider.

Automatically sort mail from another account into a folder in Windows Live Hotmail

To configure Windows Live Hotmail to filter mail from another account and put it in a specific folder:

1. In the upper-right corner of the Windows Live Hotmail home page, click Options, and then click More options.
2. Under Customize your mail, click Automatically sort e-mail into folders.
3. Click New filter.
4. Under Step 1:
1. In the first options box, click To or CC lines.
2. In the second options box, click contains.
3. In the text box, enter the appropriate e-mail address.
5. Under Step 2, select New Folder, and then enter a name for the folder.
6. Click Save.

Note

Messages that were sent to the other e-mail account as part of a mailing list will not be added to this folder.

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