Hotmail On Your Mobile Phone - The Best Free Way

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Over the last month or so I have been asked to help out a couple of times where people have been having problems reading Hotmail on their mobile phone. A lot of the time the problem appears to relate to people not actually using the technology to it's full potential OR adding more steps than are necessary.

It is actually very easy to read your Hotmail on your mobile for free (other than your normal mobile charges), all you need is GetMail, a Hotmail account, a standard POP mail account and a compatible mobile phone. The steps you will need to follow are as follows

1. Install GetMail
2. Configure GetMail to forward from your Hotmail account to your standard POP account(s) (with GetMail you can specify more than one recipient mail address using a semi-colon to seperate them, I would forward on to my main mail account first and then my account to be used with my mobile phone secondly)
3. Configure the POP settings on your mobile phone to retrieve mail from the account your Hotmail mail was forwarded to. Most mobiles these days have the ability to read e-mail via a POP server (mine is over 3 years old and works fine). Obviously there are hundreds of different mobile phones and mail providers out there and it is well beyond the scope of this article to detail configuration but it is usually straight forward (just remember to delete mail from the server, after all a copy of the forwarded mail will be in your main account?!)

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