Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) is one of the oldest and longest running services for sending and receiving e-mail messages and is the heir to Hotmail, owned by Microsoft. Outlook.com, after Yahoo Mail and GMail, is the most used e-mail service in the world and has really become an optimal solution, both if you are used to reading and writing emails via web browser, and if management is done via client desktop (like Microsoft Outlook).
Outlook.com has really improved a lot this year compared to the past, both in the graphical interface and in the options and features.
For example, it can be integrated with Windows Live Messenger and all other Microsoft online services, allows you to manage the address book and allows you to import Facebook and Linkedin friends.
Excellent also the management of messages with tools to clean up the inbox and to quickly organize the emails received and sent.
No space limitations and the ability to send photos and images up to 10 GB in a single email are other valuable Hotmail features.
Those who do not have an Outlook.com e-mail address and those who have but do not use it, can still choose to use the Outlook.com features without changing their address .
In fact, you can recently subscribe to Outlook.com without creating an Outlook.com e-mail address, therefore continuing to use the old one.
Surely those who use services like Gmail or Yahoo mail don't need Outlook.com.
I turn instead to all those who continue to use the bad mail services provided by providers such as Libero, Alice, Fastweb, Virgilio, Wind and so on.
The principle is the same as the portability of the mobile number: since everyone already has one and they are rightly opposed to having to open a new one, it is possible to bring the old address to a modern and feature-rich online e-mail service.
Here, the link to sign up for Outlook.com with the old Email address .
NOTE : If the message: 'You still don't have a mailbox ' comes out, you have to empty the cache, close the browser, reopen it and log in again.
If, on the other hand, you already have a Windows ID, that is, the registered login to access services such as MSN Messenger or SkyDrive, just enter Outlook.com to activate the new email address.
From the options (button at the top right) you can configure a different mail account to send the emails and you can choose to receive the messages arrived at that address, in Outlook.com.
In any case, Outlook.com guides you through configuring the connection to the old service, so that existing emails are imported into Hotmail via POP, and that the user can send and receive e-mail messages from Outlook.com with the primary email address.
Why Use Outlook.com "> Windows Live Essentials.
To configure Outlook.com as a new account in a desktop mail client the parameters are:
Incoming mail server: pop-mail.outlook.com
Server to send email: smtp-mail.outlook.com
POP3 server port: 995
SMTP Server Port: 25 or 587
Enable the encrypted connection.
Since August 2012 Hotmail has become Outlook.com improving a lot.
Outlook.com supports IMAP with various configuration parameters
