How to Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

Web-based access to Windows Live Hotmail is great, but a classic email client like IncrediMail has its merits, too. Ideally, you could combine the two.

With IncrediMail, you can by configuring it to access your Hotmail account — if you are subscribed to Windows Live Hotmail Plus. Without a Windows Live Hotmail Plus subscription, you can use a tool like FreePOPs to access a free Windows Live Hotmail account in IncrediMail.

Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with IncrediMail

To retrieve mail from a Hotmail account to IncrediMail and send through it, too:

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• Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu in IncrediMail.
• Click Add.
• Choose Let me configure settings myself.
• Click Next >.
• Enter your name and your Hotmail address ("hmmzl@hotmail.com", for example).
• Click Next >.
• Leave the user name untouched.
• Enter your Windows Live Hotmail password in the Password: field.
• Click Finish.
• Select OK.

Now you can use your Windows Live Hotmail account like any other account in IncrediMail.

Note: If you want to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from IncrediMail and via a browser at the same time, make sure you have configured IncrediMail for that option.