MSN email setup

MSN/Hotmail will not work on th iPhone becuase it is http based email. The iPhone will only handle POP3 and IMAP related email. I had to purchase izymail.com for a very small yearly fee which works flawlessly in transferrying my msn email account. It sets up well with Outlook 2003 and I have had no problems other then my own stupidity in setting it up under POP instead of IMAP. Also one of the security updates affected it briefly, but after rebuilding the account it actually works better and faster. Hope that helps.

Good Luck!

According to MSN support it is NOT possible to get a msn account to work with iPhone.

See this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1156280&tstart=15

Gmail here we come!!!!

Message was edited by: Skibsted

You can configure Hotmail to work on the iPhone. It's working great on mine!! You have to upgrade to a Hotmail Plus account (although, apparently they will be offering POP3 on free accounts, as well, sometime within the next year). It sounds like POP3 on the paid Hotmail accounts is something that was just "officially" enabled last week. I found an official announcement from one of the Lead PMs for Hotmail - take a look, here:

http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!44348.entry

I just upgraded my Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus yesterday and now my mail works from my iPhone (it was not working yesterday before I upgraded my account). Here are the iPhone mail settings I am using successfully (the email addresses and passwords are just examples, of course):

Account: On

*Account Information:*
Name: John Smith (note: enter your own name)
Address: example@hotmail.com (note: enter your full Hotmail email address)
Description: Hotmail

*Incoming Mail Server:*
Host Name: pop3.live.com
User Name: example@hotmail.com (note: enter your full Hotmail email address)
Password: password (note: enter your Hotmail password)

*Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP):*
Host Name: smtp.live.com
User Name: example@hotmail.com (note: enter your full Hotmail email address)
Password: password (note: enter your Hotmail password)

*Advanced Settings:*
Incoming Uses SSL: On
Outgoing Uses SSL: On
Authentication: Password
Delete from Server: When removed from Inbox (or your preferred option)

That's it - I hope everything works for you, as well. Good luck!

- Dohsane

I don't have MSN Premium (I'm using Hotmail Plus), so I can't 100% confirm... but according to the article I cited above ( http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!44348.entry) the Lead PM for Hotmail clearly stated the following:

"PS - please note that I said Hotmail Plus users and not MSN Premium users. We are working to offer everyone POP access eventually, but for now, Hotmail Plus users are the only ones that can do so."

According to that statement, it sounds like POP is not yet available for MSN Premium, but I would call MSN customer service to verify.

Cheers!

Dohsane

It doesn't. I have MSN Premium and I found an easy solution to getting your MSN email on your iPhone.

First, I would create an account either for AOL, Yahoo, or Gmail.

Second, on your computer, go to hotmail.com and sign into your account. Go to the options section and find where you can change the setting so that your email messages will be forwarded to another account (sorry, I don't remember exactly where all the links are on the hotmail site).

Finally, go to the email application on your iPhone and set up the account you have or created on AOL, Yahoo or Gmail. That's it. Worked for me with no need to download any programs.

That's great to hear. Just to confirm - are you saying that your email address ends with "@msn.com" and it is working properly?

I wasn't sure whether or not the settings I listed above would work for the "@msn.com" accounts (I only know for sure that it works with "@hotmail.com" accounts). I've had multiple people ask me about the "@msn.com" accounts, but since I only have a "@hotmail.com" email address, I haven't been able to confirm either way.

Thanks!

Dohsane

Yeah - that happened to me as well. I did two things... 1.) go into settings -> mail, and then under "Messages" change the "show" option to 200 Recent Messages. 2.) go back to the inbox, it should download a bunch more messages... then scroll to the bottom, it should have a button that you can press to get more messages. Keep pressing that until you have all your messages.

Going forward, the new messages will come in and appear at the top of the inbox, as you would expect.

Hope that helps.

Dohsane

Hi there,
Thank you for the information you posted on checking hotmail plus email on the iphone. I had performed these setups prior to finding your post but with your post, I was able to confirm my settings. My question is not how to make it work, as I did figure this out, but why does it pull the oldest 25 messages in my inbox, which are messages I ireceived back in 2004. No matter what I have tried, I can not get recent new emails to come across. I deleted the setting in my iPhone and readded them again and the same happened. Any ideas on how I can make it or set it up to pull the latest, newest messages as opposed to the oldest messages.

Thank you in advance,

ED

OK, I understand the "NO, you can't, it's http email" answers, but there are a few "Yes you can" replies.So I take it that "yes, you can" somehow, but how exactly?

Those who made "@msn.com" (pop3) work on iPhone (not treo, etc.), can you pleeeeaseeeee share the settings.

Thanks.

Does anyone know if IMAP is supported for iphone users on hotmail plus. I have been able to get my mail to come in and then it stopped syncing for some reason. Am tired of having to delete in both places.

try these settings. They work for me

Our POP service requires that you use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with the POP and SMTP connection and use SMTP authentication. This is to ensure that your email address and password are not subject to tampering. The settings are the following:

POP: pop3.live.com (port 995)
SMTP: smtp.live.com (port 25)
Note: make sure you check the box that indicates that your outgoing server requires authentication (in most mail clients this is not checked by default).
Username: your full email address
Password: your Windows Live ID password

Antims,

On your BlackJack you are running either Windows Mobile or an OS that has paid a license fee to Microsoft for each BlackJack sold.

POP3 and IMAP are open standards which have been used on the Internet since 1984. It may not have been called the Internet then, but the standards have been refined since then. ActiveSync is a Microsoft proprietary format that requires licensing from Microsoft.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

Exactly how did you get it to forward your email? I have msn premium as well as a hotmail account, and the only forwarding options i noticed were to have other emails forwarded to the msn accounts, but not to forward it to different email accounts.

Am i missing something?

I can't get my iPhone to work with those settings I have an @msn.com account. I know I can just check my email on the web with windows live which shows up well but I rather have it directly in my iPhone mail options. My sister is able to connect directly to her @msn.com mail account through her phone so I don't understand why the iPhone won't.

I have followed everything and mine says
Cannot get mail
The user name or password for "pop3.live.com" is incorrect
I have a msn premium account and when I tried to open a hotmail plus account it says I have already got it with premium??