Connect to HotMail

Hi,

What do you mean by connecting(sending or receiving mail) ? Mails can be sent only through SMTP which happens by connecting to a listener speaking SMTP(SMTP Server) in SMTP Port(25). HotMail do provide SMTP Interface. The SMTP Server addresses(IPs) for HotMail can by obtained by Querying the DNS Server(typically your ISP's DNS) for MX Records(Mail eXchanger) either by using 'nslookup'. You can directly connect to HotMail from JavaMail for sending a mail.

Receiving/reading mails can be acheived either by using POP or IMAP. Many sites support POP(ex. yahoo.com) while IMAP is not supported popularly. HotMail does not provides a POP Interface. It belives on proeritary HTTP Service that only Outlook Express/Outlook of Windows platform can understand. Using HTTP for email transportation is not the standard way.

So with HotMail you can access only with SMTP.

rajavelu_g at 2007-6-29 2:16:41 >