To download Hotmail from mail server to your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad or other devices, you have to enable POP or IMAP in Hotmail settings, then set up Hotmail with an email program via POP or IMAP on your device. Hotmail is compatible with many email programs like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Outlook express, Mail app on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. How to Add Hotmail Email to Spark for Mac. If you are already using Spark Mail app on your Mac and want to add your Hotmail account, simply follow these steps. Launch Spark for Mac; At the top left of your screen, click on “Spark” “Add Account” Click on “Set Up Account Manually” In the “Title” field, enter ‘Hotmail. Microsoft Hotmail was a very popular email service, but Microsoft discontinued it in favour of Outlook back in 2013, as a result it can be tricky to sync your Hotmail account with your Mac if.
You can setup Hotmail with any mail apps that support POP or IMAP. Hotmail POP and IMAP servers refer to the incoming servers, POP and IMAP is what allows you to download messages from Hotmail servers onto your computer through an email client. See the difference between POP and IMAP here. Hotmail SMTP servers are the outgoing servers, the SMTP server allows you to send emails through your Hotmail accounts or outlook.com from any email program. To download Hotmail from mail server to your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad or other devices, you have to enable POP or IMAP in Hotmail settings, then set up Hotmail with an email program via POP or IMAP on your device. Hotmail is compatible with many email programs like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Outlook express, Mail app on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch, Android mail, etc.
Hotmail IMAP Settings
To configure your Hotmail with an email client that supports IMAP and SMTP, you can use the following settings in your email app.
Incoming (IMAP) Server
- Server address: imap-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 993
- Encrypted Connection: SSL
Outgoing (SMTP) Server
- Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
- Authentication: Yes
- Encrypted Connection: TLS
User name: Your full Hotmail email address, including ‘@hotmail.com’.
Password: Your Hotmail account password
Normally you should set up your Hotmail account via IMAP protocol. Basically IMAP sync your Hotmail account among different devices and computers, not only the Inbox folder. Also any operation you performed one a device will be synced to the Hotmail server and other devices or mail clients connected to your Hotmail account. POP3 however simply download your emails from your Inbox folder offline. You can them manage emails on your local computer. However under some circumstances, you may also find POP3 mail actually works better than IMAP email. Check out more details here: What are POP3, IMAP and their pros and cons?
Hotmail POP3 Settings
To set up your Hotmail via POP3, first turn on POP for your Outlook.com account. Following are the instructions to turn on Hotmail POP access.
How to Enable Hotmail POP access?
- Sign in to your Hotmail account from https://www.outlook.com or https://www.hotmail.com/.
- Click the gear icon, and select Options item from the drop down menu.
- Under Managing your account, click Connect devices and apps with POP.
- Under POP, select Enable.
- Click Save.
To set up your Hotmail via POP3, you can use the following settings in your email app.
Incoming (POP3) Server
- Server address: pop-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 995
- Encrypted Connection: SSL
Outgoing (SMTP) Server
- Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
- Authentication: Yes
- Encrypted Connection: TLS
User name: Your full Hotmail email address, including ‘@hotmail.com’.
Password: Your Hotmail account password
Settings For Hotmail On Mac Os
Hotmail POP Setting Extra Tips
If you don’t want email to be deleted from your Outlook.com inbox after it’s downloaded to your email app, select the Leave a copy of messages on the server option. Even if you accidentally set up POP3 to delete messages after downloading them, Outlook.com will save a copy of the mail in a folder called POP until you verify the POP3 delete command. To do that, sign in to your Outlook.com account, go to Settings >> Options >> Connect devices and apps with POP. Under POP, make sure Enable is selected. You can select ‘Don’t let devices or apps delete messages’ option to override any delete requests. You can select ‘Do what the device or app says’ option to allow devices and apps to delete messages from the Hotmail inbox. Save your change and you are done. We suggest you to keep a copy of emails on Hotmail server, so you do not need to backup emails on your computer or backup them to other storage or devices.
Hotmail Server Settings Pop
Hotmail, Live Mail and Outlook.com are essentially the same thing. Microsoft is in the progress of moving their Hotmail users and Live mail users to Outlook.com. You can log into your email service with Microsoft from http://mail.live.com/, https://www.hotmail.com/ or http://www.outlook.com/
Hotmail SMTP Settings
The Hotmail SMTP settings would be the same for both POP3 and IMAP protocols.
Hotmail Outgoing (SMTP) Server
- Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
- Authentication: Yes
- Encrypted Connection: TLS
Outgoing Server Settings For Hotmail On Mac
Set up Hotmail account on Email clients, mobile phones & tablets
Hotmail Settings For Outlook
If you install your Hotmail on email clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, iPhone, iPad, Android, your device or email client is smart enough to automatically fill up the SMTP, IMAP, POP settings for Hotmail, so you do not need to type much information when setting up Hotmail on them. For example, you can refer to this step-by-step guide to add Hotmail account to Samsung mobile. iPhone users can follow these instructions to set up Hotmail account on iPhone. It works the same on iPad. Check out this tutorial to set up Hotmail account on iPad.