Mudplugger
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I'm trying to get the Mail App to show my Hotmail Inbox and I can't seem to get it to work. I've set up a new email account on my pop3 server to use with Windows 8 as I don't really want any real information on the Cloud just yet so this is for testing purposes. I know that the mail app doesn't support pop accounts at the moment so I have to use Hotmail.
When I installed Windows 8 it asked for a Microsoft account so I used my new email account to set up a new Microsoft account (for example - win8@myserver.com) that seemed to go fine and I can log into my MS account on my pc and it allows me access to the Store, Calendar, People, Messaging etc. which it wouldn't allow with a local account.
I didn't expect to be able to use the mail app at all as the address was a pop address and not a @Hotmail address but when I logged into www.live.com using win8@myserver.com there was a Hotmail inbox shown with a couple of messages in it from the Windows Live Team. This got me thinking that if there was a mailbox shown on the website then maybe the contents of it should show in my Metro Mail App.
Launching the Mail app it asks me to input my ms account details to synch my mail, but when I try this it says it was unable to connect. I can't seem to find out from the live.com site what my @Hotmail address might be, assuming that the ms account creation process has created me a @Hotmail address that is different from win8@myserver.com
Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I can get the Mail App working please?
TIA
When I installed Windows 8 it asked for a Microsoft account so I used my new email account to set up a new Microsoft account (for example - win8@myserver.com) that seemed to go fine and I can log into my MS account on my pc and it allows me access to the Store, Calendar, People, Messaging etc. which it wouldn't allow with a local account.
I didn't expect to be able to use the mail app at all as the address was a pop address and not a @Hotmail address but when I logged into www.live.com using win8@myserver.com there was a Hotmail inbox shown with a couple of messages in it from the Windows Live Team. This got me thinking that if there was a mailbox shown on the website then maybe the contents of it should show in my Metro Mail App.
Launching the Mail app it asks me to input my ms account details to synch my mail, but when I try this it says it was unable to connect. I can't seem to find out from the live.com site what my @Hotmail address might be, assuming that the ms account creation process has created me a @Hotmail address that is different from win8@myserver.com
Can anyone offer any suggestions on how I can get the Mail App working please?
TIA
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