UPDATE
Well, I am a little behind but I do have an update.
I have noticed that my Hotmail email is not being updated when it should on my iPhone. It is only updating when I open the email application. So, I did some digging. Apple and Microsoft have updated the Hotmail email type to use ActiveSync. This is what the Exchange email type was doing for Hotmail that I previously wrote about. It was not a true IMAP, but an ActiveSync.
Now the question I would have if I was you is how do I set it up? Well, it is very simple. Follow the steps below:
This is only if you have iOS 5 on your device.
1. Tap “Settings”, then tap “Mail, Contacts, Calendar”.
2. Tap “Add Account” in the Accounts page.
3. Tap “Hotmail”.
4. Enter your full Hotmail (or the new Outlook.com) email address and password. In the Description field, enter a name so you can identify this account when you check your email (for example, “Hotmail”).
5. Select the fields that you want to sync (they should say ON if you want them to sync). Tap Save.
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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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.
yes it can — google MAPI outlook hotmail connector
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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Coool. this has been very useful.. before i had to delete in my iphone and then in Ipad and Mac.
thanks!!!
Works well with ipad but I’m trying to get it to work on my imac as well and can’t get it to work.
Any suggestions?
Not at this time. Need ms to release the essentials pack for the Mac.
Thanks for sharing, this is a fantastic blog article.Thanks Again. Really Great.
I tried this method but screen says “hotmail account already exists” and I was not able to proceed further. How do I get around this? I’m having the same issue with my read messages on iphone4s not being flagged as read on my macbook air. And vice versa.
My email address has an underscore in it, and the “username” does not offer an underscore as an option.
See my other comment on how mto get the underscore – I think it is what you need
Excellent advice man. Foe curiosity sake, what are the technical reasons why this method works?
beyond awesome. thank you for the advice…
HELP please. Sounds good and what I need, but not working for me. Am I doing something wrong:
a. it comes back with ‘unable to verify account information’
b. I have tried all sorts of usernames (my hotmail userid with the @hotmail.com, then without it etc)
c. Do I need to subscribe to Microsoft Exchange ? $4 a month?
n.b Heidi – I have an underscore in name and that works fine … you need to tap the button to get numbers up, then tap the ‘#+=’ button . Then the underscorte will show.
Please ignore …got it working now – thankyou
Hi Peter,
when the message comes “unable to verify account info” press “Cancel”. After a few second appears the option for introducing the “SERVER” name. Put “m.hotmail.com” – that´s it!
Fantastic! It works. When I first introduced email, username and password appeared a message that the iPad could not connect to the server, than I canceled the job and introduced the server name as you told (the option wasn’t visible before). Now it works great! Many thanks!
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It worked. Thanks
Happy to help.
Is there any way to access my hotmail account using IMAP from a Windows PC? I was not able to get that to work using the method you described that worked for iPhones.
You can use their active sync (which acts very similar to IMAP) if you have outlook. All you have to do is download the Windows Essentials. It is a free package of software that includes an Outlook Connector for Hotmail. I use it on my Windows machine. Find it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/essentials-home
Hi,
This looks very interestering. I found your article via google today.
I would be very thankful if you hade the time to answer a couple of qestions i got during these applaying these settings.
Im workning with hotmail (outlook) and a iPhone. (4, iOS6)I hade hotmail via pop3 and simply deleted that account in my phone. I went through the five steps in the article, and then went on to the setup of Exchange account. Is just like when im adding the hotmail, and i dont get any account-info to put in server and so on… I left the setup without saving.
I tryed my hotmail anyway, and it seem to work. Thats strange? I can both recive and sen mail from my hotmail account in my iPhone.
Jonas, what is your question?
Did you setup hotmail in Outlook via POP? Are you using Outlook on a Mac? If you are using Outlook on a Windows PC then download the Hotmail ActiveSync connector. This will allow Push to outlook and keeps everything everywhere updated.
Thanks mate, I really appreciate it.
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