Re: Icedove setting

[keith <km3952@gmail.com>]

lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I tried to add an account of quasi-hotmail [1] one in the icedove.
>
>
> POP setting
> Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
> Port: 995
> Encryption method: SSL
>
> SMTP setting
> Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
> Port: 587
>
> The re-test process and password all passed, but once the account set 
> up. when I tried to send email, it popped up some waring.
>
> An error occurred sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect 
> greeting:  +OK The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service is read
>
> I tried:
> IMAP setting
> Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
> Port: 993
>
> The same problem.
>
> Thanks ahead for your suggestions,
>
>
> [1] I hate this email, kinda of... but it has thousands of email there 
> and for years. work mainly. so can't switch to other email. It's 
> window live one but didn't end up with .hotmail, rather something else.
My Hotmail account uses 'live.com'; Have had problems with it. It does 
work on one machine but doesn't work on two others; I think they only 
allow one machine to access the mail server, but that is just my 
thoughts on it.   :)

pop3.live.com    995
smtp.live.com    587
(ssl/tls)




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