Thread: POP3 is now available for hotmail!
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canoehead is offline canoehead
2009-01-21 , 17:40
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Originally Posted by Nelson L. Squeeko View Post
That it using the hotmail SMTP.

But when using Bell as an ISP, the default port for SMTP doesn't work for some reason. I had to use 587 for the port number for my GMail account to send emails in both Thunderbird and Modest. When I got an error for Hotmail's SMTP after following the settings used on ArsTechnica, I tried port # 587 and it worked.
Bell blocks outgoing port 25, except to its own SMTP servers.

The situation is complicated in that Bell's newest email systems are run by Hotmail, so port 25 may get through to the standard Hotmail smtp servers. I think they still require TLS to be enabled for Bell accounts, and their implementation uses port 587 if I recall correctly.