Finally Hotmail POP3 Support

Windows Live development team announced that POP3 access to Hotmail has been opened to all users in the world! In January of this feature is valid, but still limited to users in the area of the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and then appear in the United States and Brazil in February. But now everyone can enjoy and be good news for all loyal Hotmail users. This means you are free to choose to use email client applications for Microsoft than the property can access the email quickly and easily.

For you who do not know what it is POP3, the short is a protocol that allows almost any email client application installed on a PC or handheld device can take to email messages from the inbox on the web and display it in the application. Excess access email through an email client such as Thunderbird and the other is you can make backups of all the messages you have, the more bandwidth sparingly (do not load the site and jewelry ads), check email periodically and notice if any new messages that enter the inbox, offline access and so forth.

Reason why Microsoft needs a long time to use POP3 to Hotmail in the past is because they already have similar technology, namely DeltaSync. But it can only be used through MS Outlook, Windows Live Mail and Windows Live for Mobile at Microsoft. While POP3 has been used widely in many applications and especially in the handheld device.

To use the POP3 feature on this application that we want the necessary first. Simple settings, simply create a new account on the client email application with the settings that are already Windows Live team by the following:
• POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
• POP SSL: Yes
• User name: your Windows Live ID, such namaanda@hotmail.com
• Password: passowrd that you usually use to access Hotmail or Windows Live
• SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
• Authentication: Yes (with the same username and password previously)
• TLS / SSL: Yes
Other features for Hotmail will be launched soon, including the addition of facilities that integrate web Messenger.

Sumber: Lifehacker