How come my Hotmail worked on my BB but not my g1

[WazzuKirk]

This has nothing to do with Google, it has to do with Microsoft. It DOES work with the G1, but in order for it to work, you need to upgrade your Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus which is $19.99/year. Microsoft does this because Google is a direct competitor. If you are mad at anybody, get mad at Microsoft.

[jmejiaa]

Microsoft did NOT make a special anti-G1 rule for Android. That is stupid. If I have POP3 hotmail account I can use it with any POP3 device. The 20 bucks for Microsoft is not to use G1, it is to use POP3.

I guess my BB was not using POP3.

[jack528]

i agree. the workaround is a bs sol'n and seems as though it's coming from a google employee.

same probs w/comcast account.

i have wayyyy too much stuff on comcast and i'm not managing two email accounts.

anyone hear of a sol'n?

[tread]

This has nothing to do with Google, it has to do with Microsoft. It DOES work with the G1, but in order for it to work, you need to upgrade your Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus which is $19.99/year. Microsoft does this because Google is a direct competitor. If you are mad at anybody, get mad at Microsoft.

yes, get mad at microsoft

a lot of blackberry e-mail users are based around microsoft exchange servers... and since hotmail is microsoft owned, i wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with this relation that its free on blackberries

[jack528]

so why doesn't comcast work?

that's owned by microsoft too?

[stopcrazypp]

so why doesn't comcast work?

that's owned by microsoft too?

From what I read Comcast supposedly doesn't allow remote access to pop3 servers and that is what's causing problems for Comcast. However some people reported they were able to get to work fine on the G1, so who knows.

Try this setting:
incoming mail: mail.comcast.net outgoing: smtp.comcast.net
ports outgoing 25 incoming 110

Hotmail doesn't have pop3. even the original poster said hotmail support was iffy on the BB with only the older ones working. This means there were problems with Hotmail in the first place.

However that is not to say that there aren't problems with the pop3/imap email on the G1, it's a known issue if you go over to the offical T-mobile forums. But not all of the issues are totally the G1's fault.

http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/boar...&thread.id=360

[boyo]

Have Hotmail Plus. Have had Hotmail Plus for years. Unable to setup hotmail to G1.

on a windows live blog, found these suggested settings:

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

now, as far as i can figure out, the G1 does not allow for the SMTP authentication. configuring the pop3 settings has settings for the following:

username
password
POP3 server
port
security type (none, SSL, TLS)
delete email from server

just entering in with the setting suggested by MS, this doesn't work, and the G1's error message is "username or password is incorrect", which itself is clearly not the real error, other than as it relates to the SMTP authentication.

seems buggy to me. other thoughts?

[chiu0nthls]

has anyone tried going to Hotmail.com???

is it me, or can we not scroll all the way down anymore?

[ashley-tron]

Yea for real its annoying I can't read all of my emails they all get cut off