I have seen a lot of posts over the Internet that Hotmail/Livemail is not supported on Blackberry, as it doesn’t support HTTP mail connection.
I have a windows office paid account, which gives me: myname@myowndomain.com. I have a Blackberry curve from AT&T (formally Cingular).
Here’s what I did: As a last option, I called up AT&T to buy windows mobile device, but the representative suggested that I talk to Blackberry (every provider has direct blackberry support for their customers) support before buying Windows mobile phone. The representative gave me a Case Number and transferred me to Blackberry.
The Blackberry support person I spoke with had very good knowledge about this Hotmail/Livemail issue. I explained my problem, and he was confident that he can make it work.
Blackberry supports HTTP email requests. They just need to manually add the settings on their end (not on ours from BIS login or on the phone). He wanted to test my email settings before he confirmed, so I had to give him my password. He used my login details and checked the settings, and was able to successfully connect to the hotmail/livemail server using their server.
But looking at the total number of emails (I had 8,000+ emails on the server), he recommended moving them to my local outlook folder/different folder. I got the number down to 700 emails (blackberry recommends to have less than 900 emails in the inbox). We did a couple of test emails and WOW I started getting emails to my blackberry. I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE THE HOTMAIL/LIVEMAIL EMAILS COMING TO MY BLACKBERRY.
Couple of things:
Good news:
Emails sync up properly(webmail, outlook and my balckberry)
Some minor issues:
- There might be a 15-20 minute delay in the getting the emails, depending on the hotmail/livemail server speed.
- Microsoft implemented this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha to protect the emails from spam. Sometimes I had to log in to the Web to verify my account. Note: This happens rarely and only happens when we try to send an email using our Blackberry.
So call up your service provider to get hotmail/livemail on your blackberry.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reply this post.
6 comments:
could you please send me the configuration, obviusly excluding your personal info. Thanks
acrid21{at}gmail.com
There is no configuration, you just need to call the Mobile Providers Blackberry Support to have them setup your account.
Regards
Jithu Reddy
I have a BlackBerry 8330 Curve with Sprint. I use windows live mail to access my hotmail account daily. I called Sprint and was transferred to the BB tech department. They said I have to wait untill version 4.5 is released to support HTTP. (Im using V4.3.0.127)and to call back in a few months to check if it has been released? today is October 21,2008. this guy jithu has been on since feb 2008. now ive spent 50mins messing around trying to figure out a quicker resolution.
It worked for me with Cingular/AT&T BB Support, I am not sure why Sprint BB Support si saying to wait. I am using this Live Mail service on my blackberry since Feb 2008. try calling them again and ask them to manually pull the email Live Mail server and push it to your BlackBerry(Please note that there is a 20 minute delay). Hope this helps.
Hi, I am using windows live mail on my computer and since I updated my blackberry user name and password I cannot recieve emails on my blackberry, I can send them from my blackberry but nor recieve them . Can anyone help me?
Please contact the service provider and update your pin in Blackberry Server. This should solve the problem.
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