A few months ago Microsoft announced that they enabled POP3 and SMTP for Hotmail.

This is good news. For us folks, who are addicted to Gmail, we can now setup Gmail to retrieve emails from Hotmail! I just tested it myself, and it seems to work very well. All you need to do is to get Gmail to POP emails from your Hotmail account. And here is how.

Use Gmail to Manage Hotmail.

1. Login to Gmail
2. Go to Settings > Accounts Tab and click “Add a mail account you own”

You’ll see “Add a mail account you own” popup window

EMail address: Enter your Hotmail address and click “Next”

Username: your full Hotmail email
Password: your Hotmail password
POP Server: pop3.live.com
Port: 995
Tick “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.

Select other options they way you like.

Click “Add Account” button.

That’s it! If you entered all settings correctly, you’ll see a green confirmation message.

You can now read your Hotmail Emails from your Gmail account! Nice.

C:Usersgm>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.203.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms my.router [192.168.0.1]
2 26 ms 6 ms 6 ms rba-7206-e.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.230]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 192.168.4.238
4 106 ms 9 ms 6 ms ge0-2.br01.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.64.9]
5 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms google.ix.waia.asn.au [198.32.212.12]
6 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 66.249.95.210
7 54 ms 54 ms 56 ms 66.249.95.246
8 107 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.241.221
9 104 ms 103 ms 101 ms 209.85.250.101
10 104 ms 103 ms 102 ms 209.85.241.166
11 101 ms 101 ms 103 ms tx-in-f103.google.com [72.14.203.103]

Trace complete.

The same goes for youtube.com too. If only ISPs offered free waix content still – we’d have free youtube – as much as you can eat!