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Set up Windows Live Hotmail in Mail
Authored by: Sesquipedalian on Apr 09, '09 10:03:31AM

Rather than using POP3 directly in Mail.app, I suggest getting a Gmail account and then telling Gmail to pick up your hotmail email via POP3. Then add the Gmail account in Mail.app. You'll get full access to your hotmail, but with much more functionality.

There are two main benefits to this setup: vastly superior spam filtering, and IMAP access to all your email.



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Set up Windows Live Hotmail in Mail
Authored by: morespace54 on Apr 09, '09 10:13:18AM

That might be the part where the "old enough" account become relevant...
I know that not everybody can use the forwarding option on their Hotmail account...



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Set up Windows Live Hotmail in Mail
Authored by: Sesquipedalian on Apr 09, '09 10:27:12AM
It isn't forwarding. Gmail can be set up to log in to hotmail via POP3, exactly the same way that any email client app would.

Instructions for Gmail's Mail Fetcher function are available at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21288.

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