Email settings using Hotmail

[Michael Humby]

Hi all
Has anyone successfully set up a 'Profile' of email settings using Hotmail mail server settings and managed to get the 'test button' to show a 'success'. We've tried all settings with no luck.

We would not normally use Hotmail but a large percentage of our clients do so we are trying to replicate on our own PC.

Please see attached error when using the 'test button'.

Michael

[Clunes]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Google 'What is Startttls' Some sort of security process

[Michael Humby]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

PLEASE, does anyone know if it is possible to change the settings and Email within Alpha using a Hotmail account?

We have tried all the various settings and ports but have hit a brick wall, welcome anyones thoughts on this.

Michael

[Michael Humby]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Finally got this fixed.

If anyone else has the same problem here are the settings -
pop3.live.com (incoming server)
smtp.live.com (outgoing server)
SSL authentification - receiving,
TLS authentification - sending + log on using settings below (put username and password in the boxes again)
Ports - Smtp 25 and Pop 110.

The alpha test button still fails with these settings but using both the report mailer or your email client accepts these settings.

Michael

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Thanks, Michael.

[CALocklin]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Thanks Michael. I had no idea it was even possible to connect to Hotmail as a Pop3 account.

Is there anything that needs to be defined in the Hotmail account itself in order to do this? Gmail requires additional setup if you want to use Pop3 with Gmail but I don't have a Hotmail account and couldn't find anything on their main website about it. Like you, I've had customers ask me to set up my app to connect with Hotmail and I've always told them it wasn't possible.

[Michael Humby]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Cal

For our test we created a free Hotmail account and used the settings showing in our post with no other changes, however you might want to read the quote below taken from the Hotmail team detailing their rollout of 'Pop' support.

"The POP3 and SMTP support for Hotmail will be rolled out gradually to all users. Initially, only users in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will have the POP3 feature enabled on Hotmail account for free. Hotmail users from other countries will have to wait longer to enjoy the free POP3 and SMTP protocol access."

Michael

[CALocklin]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Thanks. Dunno what I was thinking. I just looked at the Hotmail website and couldn't find anything. A Google search found plenty - including this:

As of March 12, 2009, POP3 access is now available free to all Hotmail users worldwide.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_th...#ixzz1Miel649B

FWIW, it also shows a different POP port. I don't have any idea what the significance of that is. I'm just reporting what I found online:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example [email protected]
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587) [somewhere it said to use 587 if 25 doesn't work]
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

[Michael Humby]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

We have finally got this sorted but still not sure why the Alpha 'test button' does not succeed with the correct and working settings.

Michael

[Atta]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Michael I was wondering if you could fill out the blanks in this for me, because it does not work for me

function AfterInsertRecord as v (e as p)

dim pm as P
dim ps as P
if (email_smtp_open(ps, "SMTP Host", PORT, "email address", "password","SSL","TTL")) then

pm.to = "email address
pm.from = "FROM"
pm.subject = "my subject"
pm.message = "this is the message"
pm.html_message = "This is the message in HTML"
email_smtp_send(pm, ps)
end if
email_smtp_close(ps)

This would really help me.

Thanks
Roelof

[Mike Wilson]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

I believe from what was written, it would be:

email_smtp_open(ps,"smtp.live.com",25,"yourusername","yourpassword","SSL")

[Atta]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Well I typed it in exactly as you said but it does not work

debug(1)
dim pm as P
dim ps as P

if (email_smtp_open(ps, "smtp.live.com", 25 ,"[email protected]","password","SSL")) then
pm.to = "[email protected]"

pm.from = "[email protected]"

pm.subject = "my subject"

pm.message = "this is the message"

pm.html_message = "This is the message in HTML"

email_smtp_send(pm, ps)

end if

email_smtp_close(ps)

end function

I am sooooo frustrated with this email, I cannot get it to work

[Mike Wilson]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Oh, come on!

I'm pretty certain that YOUR email address is NOT "[email protected]" and YOUR password is not "password". Those are things you need to replace with YOUR specific information.

try this in the Interactive Window replacing the things in red with your actual email address and password.

dim pm as P
dim ps as P

if (email_smtp_open(ps, "smtp.live.com", 25, [COLOR="red"]"[email protected]","password"[/COLOR],"SSL")) then
	pm.to = "[email protected]"
	pm.from = "[email protected]"
	pm.subject = "my subject"
	pm.message = "this is the message"
	pm.html_message = "This is the message in HTML"

	if email_smtp_send(pm, ps)
		msgbox("message sent")
	else
		msgbox("connection made but mail not sent")
	end if

else
	msgbox("The smtp connection was not established")
end if

email_smtp_close(ps)

[Atta]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

Those items I have removed for security reason I know what to put there.

[Mike Wilson]

Re: Email settings using Hotmail

then try 587 instead of 25 and then try removing SSL and put in TLS and then try leaving last parameter empty.