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When will hotmail allow pop3 access

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by sdefor 3 views

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I have been using hotmail for years now and still cannot understand why they have not developed POP3 access. Is it the ads? Yahoo allows POP access, and so do many other i-net mail sites. I understand that you can get other pop mail from your other accounts through hotmail, but why?? I cannot understand how such a big site has not developed it yet. I would love to get all of my e-mails into my e-mail client program, browsing is fun yes, but answering e-mail is beginning to evolve like voice-mail. So again why?

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by ptmcmaster

You can access hotmail using Outlook Express, I do and it works fine. However I do still get the ads in a separate window, but only when reading my hotmail.

I feel is a matter of keeping users within MS, as AOL keeps MS out of AOL IM.

by casspc1987

You may want to re-check your hotmail account, they just started offering POP access via the POP icon on the left hand side. Just put in the POP server DNS name, user account and password and you are set.

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