Vista - Hotmail POP Access now live

If you want an alternative to Windows Live Mail, you can now use Outlook for
your mail needs without downloading and installing the Outlook Connector as
Hotmail have launched Free POP3 access to all your mail accounts.

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/0...hotmail-update

Colin Brown
WL MVP

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:30:28 -0600, Colin Brown WLMVP wrote:
Despite the news in your link, I am still getting this:

| There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was rejected.
| Account: 'Hotmail (1)',
| Server: 'pop3.live.com',
| Protocol: POP3,
| Server Response: '-ERR user does not have POP3 access',
| Port: 995,
| Secure(SSL): Yes,
| Server Error: 0x800CCC90,
| Error Number: 0x800CCC92

Since web access, and WLM access both still work, I am assuming that the
roll out is incomplete at this time.

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Norman
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~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Next Phases are still in planning and US will be included in Phase 2 which
is targeted sometime in the month of February. We will be updating this
solution article with more specific dates as we get closer to the migration

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"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:19vxi5jby4xjj.dlg@xxxxxx

[ <snort> You'd think a WL MVP might cite a WL reference.]

POP3 access is NOT available everywhere just yet, Colin:

<QP>
Some time ago, Windows Live indicated that they were working on implementing
free POP services for Windows Live Hotmail. The time has come and we are
glad to announce that we have begun rolling out free POP3 services to all
Windows Live Hotmail users. Since Windows Live Hotmail spans such a large
infrastructure, we need to turn this on in a controlled manner. We have
decided that it would be most appropriate to bring our users on by country.
This will allow us to slowly ramp up the new POP services and expand to the
infrastructure.

As part of Phase 1, we have rolled this feature out to all free users in
the following countries:

UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the
Netherlands.

Next Phases are still in planning and US will be included in Phase 2 which
is targeted sometime in the month of February. We will be updating this
solution article with more specific dates as we get closer to the migration.
</QP>
Source:
http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions...e-hotmail.aspx
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


Colin Brown WLMVP wrote:

Not everywhere..
"Next Phases are still in planning and US will be included in Phase 2 which
is targeted sometime in the month of February"



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"Colin Brown WLMVP" <Hackersoft1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:E66840DA-4347-4591-8D04-3D6DC48AC551@xxxxxx

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:e5fpHF4dJHA.5904@xxxxxx

Only about 8 years late! lol

do you think we care? First of all hotmail is infested by so much spam that
its unusable

With players like Gmail, hotmail doesn't have a chance....

if it wasn't for the live services like messenger needing you to have an
account, hotmail would be dead and forgotten

and no one would weep...

MS gave too little too late and lost the game



"Colin Brown WLMVP" <Hackersoft1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E66840DA-4347-4591-8D04-3D6DC48AC551@xxxxxx

The POP3 works great except that it does not show enhanced characters like ö, ä, ü, ß. These are shown as ?. Using OL2007, how do I fix that?

Outlook-specific newsgroups include:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...k.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.bcm
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...program_addins
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.program_vba
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.teamfolders
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...thirdpartyutil

dicks wrote:

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:14:00 +0200, terca novie wrote:
Eh? I have a Windows Live Messenger account without any Windows Live email
account. Signed it up in the 'aosake.net' domain.

I wonder what else you got wrong.

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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum