What is a POP3 value ?

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I have an email address on hotmail.com, which I would like to access via
Microsoft Outlook 2000, but when I try to add an account in Outlook, it asks
me for
"Incoming mail (POP3)" and "Outgoing mail (SMTP)" - could someone tell me
what these values should be ?
 
Bridge Teacher said:
I have an email address on hotmail.com, which I would like to access via
Microsoft Outlook 2000, but when I try to add an account in Outlook, it
asks
me for
"Incoming mail (POP3)" and "Outgoing mail (SMTP)" - could someone tell me
what these values should be ?
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Outlook 2000 does not support HTTPmail accounts. You'll have to upgrade to
a newer Outlook.
 
POP3 and IMAP are protocols used by clients to receive e-mail from servers.
SMTP is a protocol used by clients and servers to send e-mail.
**Example would be "mail.hotmail.com"
Search in a search engine for the mail server for hotmail.
 
User said:
POP3 and IMAP are protocols used by clients to receive e-mail from
servers. SMTP is a protocol used by clients and servers to send e-mail.
**Example would be "mail.hotmail.com"
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I said that Outlook 2000 does not support *HTTPmail*. That is *not* POP3,
IMAP, or SMTP. I know very well what are the POP3 and SMTP protocols. I
have read the RFCs. Have you? Microsoft dropped POP3 access to Hotmail
many years ago. You didn't know that? The only way to access Hotmail now
is to define an HTTPmail account which uses WebDAV scripting in the client
to communicate to the Hotmail server. That's why Outlook and Outlook
Express are used with Hotmail because they support WebDAV and know the
scripts and command therein to connect to and communicated with Hotmail.

You cannot even get POP3 access if you pay Microsoft for a premium Hotmail
account. The only way to access Hotmail servers is via WebDAV.
Search in a search engine for the mail server for hotmail.
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Not necessary. Just enter a Hotmail or MSN e-mail account and the Server
field will show you which HTTPmail host the account will use. Apparently
you really have never used a Hotmail account, don't know anything about
HTTPmail accounts and never heard of WebDAV, or you used Hotmail MANY YEARS
ago and don't know that Microsoft dropped POP3 access a long time ago. It's
been so long since Microsoft dropped POP3 access for Hotmail than I'm not
sure that you could even find an article reporting is as "new" change (i.e.,
try to find an old enough article which reports the loss of POP3 as
something new at that time). Not even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail
notes when Microsoft dropped POP3 access. It has been so long since Hotmail
had POP3 access that possibly POP3 was only available *before* Microsoft
snatched it up.
 
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