Hotmail Popper is a little program that will allow you to check your Hotmail account from a normal POP mail client.

Unlike standard mail accounts which allow users to retrieve their e-mail through a POP mail client, Hotmail can normally only be checked on the Web, or via Outlook Express. With this program you can use your favorite POP mail client to retrieve your e-mail from your Hotmail account.

Please Note: Microsoft has recently decided that only paying members and existing 'valued' members will be able access Hotmail using outside services such as Hotmail Popper. Hotmail Popper will continue working with a "Hotmail Plus" (or equivalent MSN) account. It will also continue working if you have an older Hotmail account that Microsoft considers a 'valued' account.

Usage

First, run Hotmail Popper if it is not already running. There is no interface to see most of the time, except for a small icon in your Taskbar Notification Area. You can right-click on this icon to set options (see below), although most users will not need to change the settings from their defaults.

To configure your e-mail client, setup a new POP account to check mail from. For the POP server's address, type "127.0.0.1" (or if you modified the Hotmail Popper options, use whatever you changed the address to). For the login / username for this account, use your full Hotmail address, for example "my_address@hotmail.com" or "mr_roboto@msn.com".

Finally, your password will be the same as your normal Hotmail password. Please be aware that your password is case sensitive so be careful about which letters are capitals; this is not usually true when logging into your Hotmail account on the web, so be sure to double-check this if your password is said to be invalid.

Now just check your mail as usual. The account you just configured will retrieve your Hotmail messages!

Requirements:

· Windows 95 Users: Before proceeding with the installation, you will need to install the Windows Socket update
· Under Windows NT/2000/XP, Hotmail Popper needs to be run with Administrative Privileges, so that it is allowed to bind to the standard POP port


Limitations:

· The trial is fully functional but will expire after you upload and download 100 messages.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New installer with smaller download
· Fixed problem when starting Hotmail Popper as a service using 3rd-party launch tools