Thursday 3 August 2017

IMAP Setting Instructions for Hotmail Account on iPhone

Hotmail is today an outdated thing and is like a lost soul but there are people who are still using it and are also using it on their device, surprisingly in their iPhone also. But for those who are still using the Hotmail account, they need to set up an IMAP account for the Hotmail. Generally all the Android and Mac devices need POP3 account and we got to know the difference between the two, especially to the beginners. 

POP3 is a single way of checking the emails. While setting the account on your iPhone, Android or Microsoft outlook or any other email client, or if you download an email on the phone or on the desktop, it just downloads a copy of the mail. So if you delete or read any email, it does not affect the mails in your Hotmail account. Now days, people are mostly using their phones to check their mails, so if you need to delete the email on your phone, you have to first log in to your Hotmail account to delete the mail. This actually irks the user as the mails deleted on the mobile device remain in the account if the Hotmail is opened in the computer and while deleting each one of them, the user needs to make sure if any important mail is not deleted.  This sometimes annoys the users and kills their hell time in checking and deleting hundreds of mails which they have deleted from their mobile device before or a month ago. 

IMAP on the other hand is a two way email checking method. When the user reads or deletes and email on phone or any other email client such as Outlook, the email is updated in her/his account as well. For example if an email is deleted on the phone, it will be deleted from the account as well.

As we discussed earlier, this article is a great help for the beginners. So, before making the option it is suggested to go through the setting especially for those who hold iPhone in their hands. 

•       Go to Settings – Mail, Contact, Calendars
•       Click on Add Account…
•       Choose Microsoft Exchange
•       Fill in the fields shown (Leave domain blank and your login should be your email address)
•       Click next and it will ask for server. Use m.hotmail.com
•       Choose if you want your email, contacts or calendar synced. 

By following the setting instructions, you can easily run your Hotmail account in your iPhone device. If in case you face any kind of challenges or problems in installing and configuring the Hotmail account in your iPhone, the customer care services in UK are readily available for you. Dial the toll free Hotmail Customer Care Number UK anytime to contact for Hotmail account support and enjoy the smooth accessing of Hotmail.

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