標籤 ： How to Access a Free Hotmail Account in Outlook Express
If you subscribe to MSN Hotmail Plus, you can access your Hotmail account with Outlook Express in a very comfortable and highly functional way that provides seemless access to any folder and your Hotmail address book, too.
But a subscription is not the only way to access a Hotmail account in Outlook Express. There are tools that translate between the web-based interface of Hotmail and POP, which allows Outlook Express to download messages from Hotmail like from any other email account. One of these tools is the free FreePOPs, which is available for a wide range of operating systems.
Access a Free Hotmail Account in Outlook Express
To access a free Hotmail account in Outlook Express:
To access a free Hotmail account in Outlook Express:
- Install FreePOPs.
- Select All Programs | FreePOPs | FreePOPs from the Start menu.
- Start Outlook Express.
- Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu in Outlook Express.
- Click Add and select Mail....
- Type your name.
- Click Next >.
- Enter your Hotmail address ("hmmzl34@hotmail.com", for example).
- Click Next > again.
- Make sure POP3 is selected under My incoming mail server is a ___ server..
- Enter "localhost" under Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:.
- Type your ISP's mail server under Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:.
- Typically, you will use the same server you use for your other non-Hotmail email account.
- Click Next >.
- Type your full Hotmail address under Account name:.
- Enter your Hotmail password under Password:.
- Click Next >.
- Click Finish.
- Highlight the newly created Hotmail account in the Internet Accounts list.
- Click Properties.
- Go to the Advanced tab.
- Enter "2000" under Server Port Numbers | Incoming mail (POP3):.
- Click OK.
- Now click Close.
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