iPhone and Hotmail

[Badger]

I can receive and read my Hotmail emails on my iPhone, but I can't send emails. I get the message 'Cannot Send email, The sender address was invalid'. Ok, done some research and it seems MS like to make you pay for their ppremium account to access hotmail directly from an external app. The workaround seems to be a clunky hotmail/gmail forwarding mess, or purchasing mbox mail for the iPhone.

Anyone using either of these approaches, or is there a better way?

[oracleslave]

Anyone using either of these approaches, or is there a better way?

Yes, use a Blackberry and Gmail.

HTH.

[Moscow Mule]

I can receive and read my Hotmail emails on my iPhone, but I can't send emails. I get the message 'Cannot Send email, The sender address was invalid'. Ok, done some research and it seems MS like to make you pay for their ppremium account to access hotmail directly from an external app. The workaround seems to be a clunky hotmail/gmail forwarding mess, or purchasing mbox mail for the iPhone.

Anyone using either of these approaches, or is there a better way?

I can sell you my hotmail account which was created before the premium service came in, which gives free POP3 access.

You'll have to put up with about 7 tonnes of Spam a week (1 email = 0.001g), but you'll be able to get your mails through POP3.

Alternatively, get a gmail account and start using it.

[Peter Loew]

I can't believe people still use hotmail when there are services like gmail available for free.

I use iPhone + gmail and it works great.

[Badger]

FWIW, I also use gmail on my iphone, and it does work great. I also have an old hotmail account aswell.

But you are right, maybe it's time to just keep it for msn reasons and not email.

[Durbs]

The workaround seems to be a clunky hotmail/gmail forwarding mess

Aint really clunky, this is what i do (from company server to GMail, not Hotmail), took a minute to set up and works fine.

GMail works sweet so use that.

[minestrone]

Hotmail is great if you have a windows mobile phone with windows live.

Anyway, why can't you open hotmail on the iPhone browser?

[interested]

I can receive and read my Hotmail emails on my iPhone, but I can't send emails. I get the message 'Cannot Send email, The sender address was invalid'. Ok, done some research and it seems MS like to make you pay for their ppremium account to access hotmail directly from an external app. The workaround seems to be a clunky hotmail/gmail forwarding mess, or purchasing mbox mail for the iPhone.

Anyone using either of these approaches, or is there a better way?

God knows why anyone would want to use Hotmail but a few people I know use mBoxMail to pick it up and say it's pretty good.

Seriously, get Gmail.