Do you want to download Hotmail emails or Windows Live Mail messages to Outlook or Thunderbird ? Or looking for workarounds to forward incoming Hotmail messages to Yahoo! or GMail account ?It's now possible to move your Hotmail to other places via GetMail for Hotmail, a free tool that installs as a Windows service. It will forward your Hotmail emails to any other email address of your choice.
To read Hotmail in BlackBerry or Outlook Express, first forward the emails to some GMail account using Getmail. Now configure the GMail POP3 feature and read these forwarded emails in any client that supports POP access.
Even if you don't intend to read Hotmail inside GMail or Yahoo! Mail, GetMail can be used to make backup copies of your existing Hotmail email messages.
Like other POP3 clients, you can instruct GetMail to delete Hotmail emails after forwarding or just mark the forwarded messages as read or leave them untouched.
And when used in conjunction with FreePOPS, GetMail for Hotmail can be used to forward mails from most web-based email programs including AOL, Yahoo and Windows Live Mail accounts.
GetMail for Hotmail | Download FreePOPS [Thanks, Matteo]
Reader Comments
OMG... u still using Live Mail/Hotmail?! get over it and move on!
Written on 17/4/07 8:04 PM
You are right sirpsycho.. and this workaround is helping you just do that.. Move from Hotmail or MSN to other email providers..
Written on 17/4/07 8:08 PM
Amit, does this GetMail forward mails even from the custom email ids provided by Live Mail. If so, then it would definitely be a great application. And is it completely free? Anyway, thanks for the post.
Written on 17/4/07 8:25 PM
Amit, I asked if it was free because I had read somewhere that it is free to forward only certain number of mails and then after that.. it charges a monthly fee. Please respond.
Written on 17/4/07 8:30 PM
I've been using this for a while now.
Every now and then an email will pop up in my hotmail and this app helps me keep an eye on those emails from my gmail account.
Written on 18/4/07 5:52 AM
WLM it's the best
Written on 9/5/07 1:29 AM
When this thing logs into your hotmail account is the password encrypted when it is sent?
Written on 22/7/07 10:04 PM