Hotmail now works (for most) on the iPhone in many countries

A few days ago several sites reported that Hotmail on the iPhone was now available in the US (and some other countries too).

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Several sites are reporting that Hotmail works great for them on their iPhone, since Microsoft is rolling out POP3 for Hotmail support in various countries. According to the stats, about 70% of users posting comments report that it works fine for them, and they can access their Hotmail on their iPhone.

The steps below detail how to set this up:
- Open the Settings app
- Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Tap ‘Add Account’
- Choose ‘Other’ for the account type
- Type your name, email and password.
- Tap ‘Save’
- Tap ‘Next’
- Close Settings and open up Mail
- Refresh your mail and it will show your messages.

After typing the info and then tapping next, some report being informed they need a Windows Live Mail Plus account to use their account in Mail, and some report it still works fine even if they don’t have one.

Feel free to let us know if it works for you.

Posted on Feb 14th, 2009 by Philip King in iPhone News | 36 Comments

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36 Comments to “Hotmail now works (for most) on the iPhone in many countries”

  1. on 15 Feb 2009 at 3:29 am1Jim

    Got the “need plus account” a few days ago. Works great today.

  2. on 15 Feb 2009 at 8:56 am2Meshal

    It says password is wrong :( strange

  3. on 15 Feb 2009 at 6:54 pm3Icyhammer

    Worked for me
    1. UK hotmail / live account
    2. India hotmail accont

  4. on 15 Feb 2009 at 7:18 pm4m+b

    Works for me in the UK

  5. on 15 Feb 2009 at 8:21 pm5trock4u

    is working with my iphone, hotmail and live accounts but only show the inbox, not trash or junk folders.

  6. on 15 Feb 2009 at 9:24 pm6Michael Murdock

    It does in a sense of the word ‘work’.

    It does not see all of your mailboxes which is a downside. So you can read email which is good, but you can’t move it into other mailboxes that you already have on the system, so that’s a bad thing. But reading and deleting…yes that works.

  7. on 15 Feb 2009 at 11:49 pm7Ryan

    US MSN account. Worked for me as well. Thanks for the tip!

  8. on 16 Feb 2009 at 3:01 am8Jules

    Fine in Australia as well!

  9. on 16 Feb 2009 at 9:49 am9Trevor

    Not working for me – Click on Save and it takes me to the page asking for IMAP or POP settings with no ‘Next’ Option.

    Trying to setup using hotmail.co.uk account…

  10. on 16 Feb 2009 at 2:01 pm10iphone loever

    worked for me in the US

  11. on 16 Feb 2009 at 7:07 pm11Louay

    Works for me in the UAE

  12. on 17 Feb 2009 at 4:16 am12BOF

    Hi, I hv tried but not working for me in Singapore. It says user name or password for “pop3.live.com” is incorrect. :(

  13. on 17 Feb 2009 at 8:35 am13KID

    Worked for me with my live.com account

  14. on 18 Feb 2009 at 7:19 am14Hotmail works

    [...] just found out about this earlier today from this page: Hotmail now works (for most) on the iPhone in many countries » iPhonestalk.com It works! I tried it a day or two before that news and it didn’t then. I was just stewing (angry) [...]

  15. on 19 Feb 2009 at 12:04 am15Ruben

    It worked for me in the US, thanks for the news update.

  16. on 20 Feb 2009 at 1:25 am16erock

    From Microsoft Office Live website: We are happy to announce that POP3 technology is now available to Hotmail users in the United States and Brazil in addition to the countries who rolled out the functionality last month (United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands). If you don’t see your country or region in this list, never fear, we’ll be rolling POP3 out to more parts of the world later this year. Link http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!49799.entry

  17. on 25 Feb 2009 at 9:10 pm17ILN

    I still wish it was IMAP… that’s why I hated BlackBerry mail services. But POP is 10 times faster. Whatever… I can stop paying for Izymail now!

  18. on 28 Feb 2009 at 5:09 pm18Slanty2D

    Works for me in Canada.

    Wish I could get some of the other custom folders to come up though, I’ve got filters set to send emails to certain folders instead of my Inbox, and I can’t get to those folders on the iPhone.

    Still, better then nothing!

  19. on 01 Mar 2009 at 10:46 am19alexuk

    Once you have entered username and password on the first option screen, another screen comes up with:

    IMAP / POP

    name: (carried over from previous screen)
    address:(carried over from previous screen)
    description:(carried over from previous screen)

    Incoming mail server
    host name: (example mail.example.com)
    password:

    Outgoing Mail Server
    Host Name (smtp.example.com)
    User Name: (Optional)
    Password: (Optional)

    Anyone know where I can find out the information I need to enter into In and Outgoing Mail Servers?

  20. on 05 Mar 2009 at 6:17 am20ricardo

    Working fine here in Costa Rica, finally!!!

  21. on 07 Mar 2009 at 12:57 am21Nikhil

    Works for me too … have an account I set up in India and have started using in the US for the past couple of years.

  22. on 10 Mar 2009 at 4:26 am22Dylan

    Works for me in Canada!

    Scared me a bit at first because it was not but then i figured out for some reason in hotmail my country was saved as US outlaying islands….

  23. on 14 Mar 2009 at 2:03 pm23BOF

    Now works for me in Singapore. Yeppy!!… Finally!

  24. on 18 Mar 2009 at 9:06 pm24Ken

    Its working for free! But its probably too little too late. I abandoned my hotmail account when I started using iPhone because POP3 was not supported. I’m now pretty comfortable with my gmail.

  25. on 01 Apr 2009 at 5:46 am25Vonetta

    Just happened to try it tonight and it works for me! Being able to read my In Box is great.

  26. on 11 Jun 2009 at 2:26 pm26OC

    I got the hotmail to work for me but I can’t see the folders that I have things saved on and when I delete emails on the computer it doesn’t change on the iphone.

  27. on 20 Jun 2009 at 1:21 pm27Elliot

    It works but I can only read email. Annoyingly there is no deleted mail or even saved mail, so I can’t move a message to another folder such as saved. Annoying

  28. on 28 Aug 2009 at 8:26 am28Flip

    the best and easiest hotmail.co.uk iphone mail setup is on
    http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2009/03/hotmail-on-your-mobile/

    and it works first time!

  29. on 09 Sep 2009 at 3:12 am29marky

    works for me, only got the inbox but it works (Y)

    Gotta select the “POP” option after you put your name and password.
    Then in the incoming section put
    server: pop3.live.com
    username: your email address
    password: your account password

    outgoing section;
    server: smtp.live.com

  30. on 30 Sep 2009 at 4:47 pm30Mobile

    Works for me on my Hotmail live account in the UK

  31. on 29 Oct 2009 at 11:42 am31Monika

    Great, thank you guys. Finally I was able to set this Hotmail account on to my IPhone. Perfect.
    Thank you once again……

  32. on 05 Nov 2009 at 6:48 am32guille

    I just change my password as they say and worked. muchas thanks

  33. on 25 Nov 2009 at 5:39 pm33Daniel

    I can read e-mails on my iphone but if delete them or send new e-mail using my phone there is no change to my hotmail next time I log in using a computer. why is this only updating 1 way instead of both ways?

  34. on 09 Dec 2009 at 10:39 am34Matt

    I’m setting up the account and i can see that only the inbox folder is there but whenever i try to upload my mail a message saying “The connection to the server ‘pop3.live.com’ failed.”

    anyone know why?

  35. on 25 Dec 2009 at 1:36 pm35sharon

    Hi this was very useful thank you, however can I get MSN messenger to use with the same account, email address on hotmail.co.uk?

    any ideas?

    Thanks

  36. on 06 Mar 2010 at 4:53 am36Kamaneko

    works fine but when I delete read mail from my Iphone, the read mail still exists in my internet hotmail. Anyway to solve this?

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