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$ nc -w1 -vz m.hotmail.com 993
nc: connect to m.hotmail.com port 993 (tcp) timed out: Operation now in progress

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.

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