Adding Hotmail to Apple Mail .app

Here's one I added today. For all those people who (still) use Hotmail and want to view their Hotmail account in the Apple Mail .app as is possible in Entourage/Outlook - here's the solution.

Download the httpmail plugin - (1.51 for Leopard) the instructions come in the download, here's an over view:

1. Upgrade your hotmail account to hotmail plus (fee applies)
2. Download the HTTPMail Plugin and install
3. Open Apple Mail and create a new account using the following settings:
Account Type: httpmail
Account Description: Whatever you like
Full Name: Your name
Email Address: yourname@hotmail.co.uk or .com
Incoming mail server: hotmail.co.uk or .com
User Name: yourname@hotmail.co.uk .com
Password: Your password

Voila!!! Hotmail on Apple Mail.

One drawback - you will have to leave your computer cooking for a bit to download all your saved email folders to your Apple Mail - and then they all com in as unread messages. - Bummer, but worth it.

posted by powderdust @ 20:03:00