Back in the golden days, the Hotmail website was the web interface for the Hotmail email service. There was no brand mismatch. The services were one in the same. Whenever you said "Hotmail," people always knew what you were talking about. In , just one year before Microsoft discontinued their Windows Live brand, they introduced Office At the time, Office was geared towards business and corporate users, but was gradually expanded to include regular consumers as well.
As part of Microsoft's push for Office , they released a collection of web apps called Outlook on the web formerly Outlook Web App in The important one is Outlook Mail , which is the modern analogue to the Hotmail interface from years ago.
Remember how Microsoft rebranded their email service as Outlook. Outlook Mail is the front-end while Outlook. As with Outlook. There's no such thing as Outlook Online. To make it abundantly clear: Outlook Mail is the web email client while Outlook. You use the former to view the latter.
Microsoft's confusing brand strategy has also spilled into their desktop products. Up until a few years ago, "Outlook" always meant "Microsoft's desktop email client.
With every subsequent version of Office, up to and including Office , the Microsoft Outlook desktop client has also received updates. This desktop version is sometimes referred to as Office Outlook, but the official name is Microsoft Outlook or simply Outlook. You can see how that could be confusing given all of the different Outlook-related products and services now available, but that confusion isn't just a recent thing. Consider the now-defunct Outlook Express , which was an email client that came packaged with Internet Explorer back in Despite similarities in name, Outlook Express wasn't related to Microsoft Outlook except that it was an email client.
Microsoft Outlook Express was succeeded by Windows Mail in , around the same time that Windows Vista was released. This was most likely due to infrastructural differences between Windows XP and Windows Vista, which is why the two were similar yet Windows Mail couldnt't be used on versions prior to Windows Vista.
These are the outgoing SMTP server settings for sending mail using Windows Live Hotmail from any email program, mobile device, or another email service:. You can also use the Outlook. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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This guide contains the settings and instructions how to configure Outlook with those email providers. The settings below are sorted by the dialogs that you need to access. If you are having problems finding out where to put in which information, look at the numbers in front of the settings and you can find them back in the screenshots section at the bottom of this document. When you are using the Mail app on your smartphone or tablet, you can configure your Outlook.
Connecting to your Outlook. In Outlook, simply select to add an account and use the Auto Account Setup method to configure your account. Manual configuration of the servers is not needed nor supported. To manually configure your Outlook. More Settings: Outgoing Server tab screenshot. The Outlook Hotmail Connector is no longer supported nor needed to connect to your Outlook. IMAP should already be enabled by default for all accounts.
For more information and workarounds see: Gmail accounts and disproportionally large pst-files. Office also offers EAS connectivity but that is only recommended for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets which are using an Outlook app or another Mail app which offers EAS support. IMAP and POP3 is also offered but that is only recommended when you have a very specific need for it like server-level automation or not using Outlook.
Connecting to your Exchange Online mailbox is really easy as Outlook makes use of the Autodiscover service to automatically configure Outlook. Manual configuration is not supported.
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