Thunderbird & Hotmail
I have been having trouble in getting Thunderbird 3 to pull down emails from Hotmail, it wasn’t until after a bit of googling revealed a french site that showed the screenshots, so, as is my duty to share, here are the relevant screen-shots
- Tools > Account Settings, click on the hotmail account that you want to use, then click on ‘Server Settings’.
- Server name – pop3.live.com
- Port number – 995
- Connection Security – SSL/TLS
- Authentication Method – Normal Password
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Thunderbird Hotmail account setup (I)
- From the same window, click on Outgoing Server (SMTP), Click on ‘Add’, a ‘SMTP Server’ dialog box appears
- Description – hotmail
- Server Name – smtp.live.com
- Port – 25
- Connection Security – SSL/TLS
- Authentication Method – Normal Password
- User name – your hotmail user id
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Thunderbird Hotmail SMTP Setup
- Go back to the Webmail item on the left pane of the same window, to see the summary of the ‘Account Settings’
- Outgoing SMTP server – hotmail – smtp.live.com
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Thunderbird Hotmail final setup
Then you’re done with. No need to get an extra add-on tool to do this for you. And you know what, it’s faster!!! W00t! 
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August 2, 2010 7:34 pm 1 Comment
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By jay, August 18, 2010 @ 6:58 pm
thanks a bunch!