How To Setup Gmail To Send Or Receive Hotmail Emails

You can set up Gmail to send and receive hotmail email, so it pretty easy to manage your hotmail email from Gmail,lets us access Hotmail to retrieve and send mails from any other email program.

How to configure Gmail, to send or receive hotmail email?

configure Gmail for Hotmail POP3 settings. Follow these steps to setup your Gmail to use hotmail pop3 setting:

Click Settings in Gmail and open the Accounts and Import tab
In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account
Enter your full Hotmail email address and click Next Step
Enter your Hotmail email address, Username and Password in their respective text boxes
Choose pop3.live.com server and 995 port
If you’d like to keep a copy of each mail that Gmail retrieves, in your Hotmail account as well, select the Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server checkbox. This way, you can access mail in your other accounts, and in Gmail.
Since Hotmail requires you use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving a Hotmail mail, select the Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail checkbox.
If you do like to distinguish your Hotmail mails from your Gmail mails, choose Label incoming messages option and use any preferred label. You can select an existing label or create a new one from the drop-down list.
If you don’t want your Hotmail mails to show up in your Gmail Inbox and you want to automatically archive them, choose Archive incoming messages option
Click Add Account
Once your hotmail account has been added successfully, you’ll have the option of setting it as a custom From address. This allows you to compose messages in Gmail, but have them appear to be sent from your Hotmail account. Click Yes to set up a custom From address.