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Thunderbird installing Hotmail account

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Have a Hotmail.com account and tried adding to Thunderbird. I did have hotmail installed via office365 etc host/smtp, that gave me alot of junk. Tried using either server hosts: pop/imap-mail.outlook.com And smtp via office365. Either way it tells my user/password is incorrect and tries to use from its data the office365 setup. Which password should use, Windows pw, Outlook pw or Live pw. Or is there another method of just having plain Hotmail.com

Have a Hotmail.com account and tried adding to Thunderbird. I did have hotmail installed via office365 etc host/smtp, that gave me alot of junk. Tried using either server hosts: pop/imap-mail.outlook.com And smtp via office365. Either way it tells my user/password is incorrect and tries to use from its data the office365 setup. Which password should use, Windows pw, Outlook pw or Live pw. Or is there another method of just having plain Hotmail.com

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Try these: - incoming: outlook.office365.com, port 993, SSL/TLS, Oauth2 (assuming IMAP) - outgoing: smtp.office365.com, port 587, STARTTLS, Oauth2

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Thanks, But this is what I'm trying to avoid having that set-up previously and having a load of junk from office365.

Read somewhere on the MS community forum it can be done differently avoiding office365, but cant the page now.

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Ok, all we go with are the specs provided by email hosts.

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These are the settings I use for HotMail and I've never had "a load of junk from office365," just my messages.

Server Name: outlook.office365.com
Port: 993 [995 for POP]
User Name: <your e-mail address>
Connection security:  SSL/TLS
Authentication method: OAuth2


'Outgoing Server (SMTP)':—

Server Name: smtp.office365.com
Port: 587
Connection security: STARTTLS
Authentication method:  OAuth2
User Name: <your e-mail address>

  The trouble with looking on-line is that what worked when somebody wrote something may not work now.

If you do get junk and say exactly what it is I may be able to help you get rid of it.

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