Why is this such a great thing. IMAP makes it so that when you read an email on your phone then it will show up as read when you login to your hotmail account from a computer, and vice versa.
It is very simple to setup.
- Go to Settings – Mail, Contact, Calendars
- Click on Add Account…
- Choose Microsoft Exchange
- Fill in the fields shown (Leave domain blank and your login should be your email address)
- Click next and it will ask for server. Use m.hotmail.com
- Choose if you want your email, contacts or calendar synced.
Update for Android users:
1. Open the Mail app.
2. Hit the menu button > Add account
3. Enter your hotmail e-mail address and password.
4. Press Manual setup (don’t press Next!)
5. For account, select Exchange.
6. On the Server settings page, clear out the DomainUsername field and enter your hotmail address.
7. Change the Server to m.hotmail.com (without the quotes).
8. Keep the checkboxes the way they are (Use secure connection enabled, but don’t accept all SSL certificates)
9. Press Next.
10. Once the server settings are confirmed, you’ll be asked for how far back you’d like to sync your e-mail, contacts and calendars.
Interesting workaround. Worked on stock email client supplied with Cyanogen Mod 7 ROM (Android 2.3.7) on HTC Desire. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, that totally worked ! Wayyyy better then pop3 !! I been looking for this for years, thanks a lot Sirlur!
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Thanks!
You saved my bucks, I was in the verge of purchasing a pop3 account from hotmail to set his up on my iPhone….
Thanks for the great post!!
This is not IMAP. This is Exchange Active Sync. It has many of the same features as IMAP but also not. IMAP is a standard anybody can use. EAS has to be licensed from Microsoft.
Wow! So much better than POP on the iphone! Thanks1
Well … that’s not IMAP. That’s an exchange server (which is better than imap IMO since it also sync contact and calendar ^^a).
Works Well On
HTC Desire HD A9191
with Android 2.3.3
And with the ordinary E-mail program.
/Wilhelm
Works Well on
Motorola MB525
with Android 2.2.2
Thanks so much, this has been driving me absolutely crazy from my Mac, iPhone and iPad. Hopefully this will save me from going completely insane.
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Will this work for yahoo as well?
Yes it does but the settings are different of course. I have the information for it here: http://www.sirslur.com/2010/12/13/yahoo-has-imap-and-works-on-iphone/
Thanks a lot for sharing, it works.
This is what I have been looking for!! What a great day to end 2011!!!
Thanks it worked greatly!
What would you recommend to sync the macmail account (on a Mac) with the hotmail email account ?
Thanks!
i’m sorry, but it’s not imap, it’ activesync exchange.
I have the email on my iPhone and hotmail working just fine but I can’t get my Mac Mail to sync like this. What do I need to do?
I’ve setup my hotmail account, but when i read a mail in py iPhone, when i open this mailbox in my mac or in my iPad the messages are not synchronized, with this I mean that in my iPhone appears as read and in my Mac appears as not read. do you have any information on how I can configure this?
Thanks
You can set up your Ipad to the same configuration. Once you do this then it would appear as read on your Ipad. I have not found a method for the Mac though.
Hello. do you know if this (or something similar) can work for Hotmail when you use Outlook for Mac 2011? (using Lion..)
thx!
Unfortunatly it can’t. I am looking for a way to do this as I use Outlook on the Mac as well. It works great on Windows though.
thanks Sirslur. keep me posted if you find something that works. thanks!
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Thank you for posting this. However, I am actually looking for imap settings which these are not, unfortunately there are some (not many) distinct differences between these 2 type of accounts.
Unfortunately the main difference is these settings only work on smartphone/tablet mobile devices (windows phones, Androids, Iphones, and Web OS and not on computers, which is what the imap settings would help with.
Just for everyone’s information:
1. This is not an imap account for hotmail. While imap, and exchange server settings act similar, this is actually an exchange activesync settings.
2. Droids can only have one Exchange account added, but multiple imap accounts.
3. The account you setup for your exchange one a droid is what the droid marketplace uses for your info, so if you had this already set up originally and were getting apps from there, you will have to manually sign into the Droid Marketplace afterwards.
4. If on a Droid, or Windows also, the contacts listed in your phone are saved to your Exchange account. So if you change from your original Droid Settings, which is generally a Gmail account, to your hotmail account, all your contacts from the gmail will automatically remove from you phone, and the contacts from your hotmail will take it’s place, so you will need to ensure that contacts match in both accounts in order to keep your contacts.
5. If these were IMAP settings, you could simply use Gmail to connect to the hotmail account through it to access all of your folders. Currently Hotmail does not support this function, only POP access, which Gmail can connect to also, however, you do not get access to all of your folders because of that.
Hm, looks like they’ve disabled it again, at least for non-mobile networks:
$ nc -w1 -vz m.hotmail.com 993
nc: connect to m.hotmail.com port 993 (tcp) timed out: Operation now in progress
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