I’ll be testing it in this preview release to see if things have improved, but I’m not holding my breath. Historically, IMAP performance in Outlook using Gmail accounts has been dreadful. If you try to set up a Gmail account manually using Exchange ActiveSync, you’ll be unsuccessful. Although Gmail supports Exchange ActiveSync on mobile devices, it offers only POP and IMAP options with Outlook. Outlook will test your connectivity, and if you’ve configured things properly you’ll see a new message store in the navigation pane on the left, with your Hotmail messages arriving.Īs for Gmail, the news isn’t as good. Your settings should look similar to these.Ĭlick Next to continue. In the Choose Service dialog box (shown below), select Exchange ActiveSync and click Next.įill in the Server Settings dialog box using your name, email address (,, or MSN.com), and password. Instead, click Manual setup or additional server types and then click Next. Don’t enter your email address and password here. That opens the Add Account dialog box, with Auto Account Setup selected. On the Info tab (shown below), click Add Account. The good news is there’s a simple workaround.
If you enter a Hotmail address and it can't set up Exchange ActiveSync, it will try to set up your account using POP and SMTP support. Unfortunately, as I discovered in my testing, the account setup wizard doesn’t always detect Hotmail accounts correctly.
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That means you no longer have to install the kludgey Outlook Connector to set up a Hotmail account with Outlook. It now supports Exchange ActiveSync as an explicit option. On the POP and IMAP Account Settings screen, type the following setting information: In the Your Name box, type your name as you want it to be. Click to select POP or IMAP, and then click Next. Click to select Manual setup or additional server types, and then click Next. If you’ve installed the Office 2013 preview, you might notice one welcome addition in the mail setup routine for Outlook 2013. In Outlook 2013, click on the File menu, and then click Add Account.
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