Iphone + hotmail

Well I just added a new mail account to my iphone by selecting "Other" and putting my details in. All my hotmail messages then downloaded to my iphone straight away
 
Odd. All I did was enter my hotmail.com address and it added all the settings automatically.

Incoming Mail Server - pop3.live.com
Outgoing Mail Server - smtp.live.com
 
You will need to have a Hotmail Plus subscription to enable this to work.

These are currently £14.99 a year.
 
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I just done the same as No-One and a warning popped up about it needing a Hotmail plus subscription.

But it still downloads your mail from Hotmail.

Weird....:confused:
 
scamartist said:
I just done the same as No-One and a warning popped up about it needing a Hotmail plus subscription.

But it still downloads your mail from Hotmail.

Weird....:confused:
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That is weird, mine just keeps saying username or password is incorrect, even though they are correct.
 
I just tried it and it found all the settings automatically, had the message about hotmail plus too but it works anyway :D. Finally I can read emails without going on the mobile live page :D.
 
djay said:
You will need to have a Hotmail Plus subscription to enable this to work.

These are currently £14.99 a year.
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No, you don't.

I think it's for hotmail accounts over 5 years old which now have pop access enabled for mail.

This was announced a few weeks back.

I've got 3 hotmail accounts, one old one and two brand new ones from the starts of this year. i'm currently using izzymail at £15 a year to allow Imap access for each of the new accounts. But now I've also setup the older acount which I still use for free. I didn't have any error about hotmail subscription, and it didn't even ask for the servers, i just put in my name, email and password and it set it up.

Nick
 
Nem said:
No, you don't.

I think it's for hotmail accounts over 5 years old which now have pop access enabled for mail.

This was announced a few weeks back.

I've got 3 hotmail accounts, one old one and two brand new ones from the starts of this year. i'm currently using izzymail at £15 a year to allow Imap access for each of the new accounts. But now I've also setup the older acount which I still use for free. I didn't have any error about hotmail subscription, and it didn't even ask for the servers, i just put in my name, email and password and it set it up.

Nick
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That explains why mine won't work then, mine is over 5 years old, however i can't remember seeing any details on it. I ended up getting Mbox for the iphone instead, works a treat.
 
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My account is over 5 years old and works fine without the plus. Although I don't use it as I hate pop.

I use m-Box for hotmail, then a yahoo account / exchange account for push.
 
As far as I was aware using Hotmail direct through the iPhone didn't actually update your account?
So if you deleted an email on the phone is still stayed in your actual hotmail account online?
It also doesn't give you access to all of your folders from what I can remember!
This is what happened to me so I stuck with mbox mail.
 
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