Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server Settings for Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, GMail, MSN, AOL and more

*Update, 15th of March 2011: changes for the mail server settings of Gmail and MSN mail. 

*Update, 23rd of August 2009: Hotmail can now be connected to Microsoft Outlook as any POP email account. To do so, you need to download the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. 

*Update, 29th of August 2006: the Google Gmail service offers a SMTP server (outgoing mail server) for Gmail accounts. To use the Google Gmail SMTP server, use the following information:

• Google Gmail Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
• The Gmail SMTP server requires authentication (use the same settings as for the incoming mail server)
• The Google Gmail SMTP Server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) on port 465.

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