Mail Server Settings for Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, MSN, AOL and more

*Update, 15th of March 2011: changes for the mail server settings of Gmail and MSN mail. *Update, 23rd of August 2009: Hotmail can now be connected to Microsoft Outlook as any POP email account. To do so, you need to download the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. *Update, 29th of August 2006: the Google Gmail service offers a SMTP server (outgoing mail server) for Gmail...

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Mail Server Settings for Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, MSN, AOL and more

Why & when do I need these settings? Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, GMail and other providers are basically email services designed to provide you with email mailbox accesss directly from the web. However, going online and logging on to their sites is not always the most convenient way for reading and sending emails. On the other hand, you have the alternative to send and receive emails through such a mailbox by using a local email client software, such as Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. In order to properly use it, you need...

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