Rerouting Email

[aura2]

I want to recieve email from a different email address, and to do this i need to know hotmail's External Mail Server. How would i go about finding that?

[Nokia]

Are you just trying to receive email addressed to your hotmail account, with out having to goto hotmail.com and logging in?

[aura2]

on my college email, i can do something called "Recieve Other Email" so i dont have to log onto hotmail, i can just get both school and hotmail email from one place. In the required fields it has
Account Type: IMAP4
Incoming Mail Server:
E-mail Address:
User ID:
Password:
Confirm Password:

[MilitantEidolon]

If you want to be able to accept hotmail through another mail client you are going to have to set it up as an HTTP connection and not a POP3.

Once you do this you simply type your email address, username and password.

- MilitantEidolon

[aura2]

I dont think i can change my connection, can i?

[MilitantEidolon]

Um, I am not sure what type of program you are working with but I would see if you can change the account type and if not see if you enter HTTP in the mail server or something like mail.hotmail.com and see if that works.

- MilitantEidolon

[Nokia]

What email client are you using in collage?

If you can use outlook express as soon as you put a hotmail address in to a new account setup it fills in all the deatails for you, all you need to put in is your password

[Nokia]

If you manage set it up a a http client the server url for hotmail is http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp

[aura2]

its not outlook, its something the school has set up. I can only change to either POP or IMAP

[ss2chef]

I have used a perl script called Gotmail to grab hotmail and it works pretty good.

sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail