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Hotmail authentication in Evolution 2.28.3

Asked by Guy Andrew

Can't set up Evolution 2.28.3 to use my hotmail account. I have set "receiving email" to pop3.live.com and encryption to SSL. Authentication is set to "password". Sending email server is set to smtp.live.com with authentication set to Plain. I get a password error message and an invitation to re-enter the password. The same password works fine if I go direct to hotmail in Firefox. Any thoughts? Thanks, Guy

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Marc Stewart (marc.stewart) said : 		#1

Did you enter your full email address as your username, or just the part before @?

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Guy Andrew (guy-andrew) said : 		#2

Dear Mark

The question alone fixed it! I had only guy_andrew as username. By adding @hotmail.com she spun into action. Thanks for your help. Now I will attend to the Google Earth issue.

I'm getting to like this Linux stuff.....

Regards

Guy

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Guy Andrew (guy-andrew) said : 		#3

Spoke too soon: collecting mail is fine but, when sending, I frequently get an error message to the effect that a connection to the (outgoing) smtp server could not be established and timed out. Any thoughts?

Guy

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#4

Hello,

I had the same problem. I could receive Hotmail e-mails but not send. On the receiving mail tag use SSL encryption and on the sending mail tag use TLS encryption. This worked for me.

Regards,

Allan :)

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Guy Andrew (guy-andrew) said : 		#5

Hi Allan

Tried TLS on the sending but got this message:

Error while Sending Message

Failed to connect to SMTP server smtp.live.com in secure mode: STARTTLS not supported

changed back to SSL and got this message:

Error while Sending message

Could not connect to smtp.live.com: Connection timed out

BUT: one or two emails have successfully gone out under SSL. Most, however, get the timed out message. So it does work occasionally.

Any thoughts?

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#6

Hi,

Check that you have selected SMTP and not sendmail. Also the receive must be set to POP.

My config for Hotmail with Evolution works perfectly.

Regards,

Allan :)

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ahambidge (ahambidge) said : 		#7

Hi,

Also check that you have the requiresauthentication box ticked and and <email address hidden> as the user name.

Regards,

Allan :)

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