How to get Hotmail on your BlackBerry

March 10, 2008 | By | 143 Comments

Update: This little tricks seems to only work for incoming mail but outgoing messages don’t send. 

So if your a new BlackBerry owner and eager to put your Hotmail account on your new berry you may notice its not easy. A member over at HowardForums has found a way to enable Hotmail for free! Usually Microsoft makes you pay for IMAP/POP access. Give this a try:

  1. Download the Windows Live software at windowslive.com
  2. Login to the software to access your inbox
  3. Press Tools
  4. Click Options
  5. Select the Advanced tab
  6. Look for Maintenance
  7. Under Troubleshooting click POP, IMAP and HTTP
  8. Press close
  9. Then go login to BlackBerry Internet Service and add your hotmail account

It should be a success! Let us know if it worked for you…

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  • Christopher

    I tried it and it works. Thanks!

  • Ishan

    I managed to set up hotmail on the blackberry. I can send email but it seems like I am not receiving any emails. I will wait for some more time and if the problem persists I might re-enable my hotmail plus, unless someone recommends a solution to this.

  • Jen

    how do you login to the software?

  • http://www.navy.dnd.ca Pozi

    Works awesome. Very slick, and easy. I love shit like this! Nice tip.

  • http://www.navy.dnd.ca Pozi

    Jen: To “login”, just login into your windows live email as per normal (to read your hotmail, etc.). Then click the tools tab and options, etc, follow the directions.
    Then go to your provider’s blackberry email account login. (Ex: telusmobility.com/blackberryemail) login into that and add your hotmail account and you should be good. You will see an automated message on your BB within minutes in your new account inbox.

  • DEA

    I tried all that and got no automated message on my BB. Any other ideas?

  • Krystal

    Well I didn’t do what everyone else did, but I found a way around the issue. Instead of downloading Hotmail onto my phone (I was told I can’t by my provider), I simply used my yahoo account on my phone. I went to the options in my hotmail account and asked for the emails to be ALSO forwarded to my yahoo account, so now I get emails that go from my hotmail account, to my yahoo account and then to my blackberry. There is no delay in the transit, so this might be a bit of a long way of doing things, but it works for me! Hope this helps.

  • Christopher

    well I was able to add the hotmail account but I don’t receive any emails. Oh well it half worked.

  • DEA

    Anyone have any clue why when I set up my hotmail on the web it is not sending anything to my BB? Do i need to use the BIS 2.4? Or is it because I am using BES for my work email?

  • Peter

    forwarding would work great for me since i have a working email with BIS, but I want to keep a copy of the message on my non pop working hotmail, and I can’t do that, I am forced to forward 1 copy only and a copy doesn’t stay on the original email…. anyway to change this in hotmail? THX

  • Stef

    (Ishan) – I’m with you, I have the BB pearl. I seem to have no problem sending messages to others, but its the Recieving of messages that I can’t do. I followed all those messanger live logon tips, but nothing changes this. Really, forwarding my account to yahoo or gmail or whatever is not really the option. Seems stupid I can only do half of the functions. Any ideas out there??

    Ishan, did you manage to get it to work properly?

  • George

    I did everything everyone said…and I still can’t receive my hotmail messages on my BB. I can send to others from the BB…but can’t get anything back. HELP!! I also can’t figure out how to forward to another email. Is this only an option with the Hotmail plus?

  • http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular Kevin

    I just setup my hotmail on this site:

    http://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=mycingular

    And I’m able to send and receive hotmail on my blackberry.

  • DEA

    I bit the bullet and did the upgrade to hotmail plus. then went to the BIS site and set it up and it worked immediately. appears that is the sure fire way to get this working. when you break it down, it’s only $1.66/ month.

  • Rich

    DEA how did you upgrade to hotmail plus? I just started using Windows Live Mail and can’t figure out how to upgrade and pay.

  • DEA
  • DEA

    So, I did this and the delay is anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes before an email hits my BB. Any ideas how to make this quicker?

  • Walker

    That was a pretty sweet tip right there. I just hooked it up on my email and it seems to be working perfectly. Nice.

  • JayCee

    ummm … i don’t know the big problem, I just forewarded my mail directly to my blackberry mail address from hotmail, I did a test, and got it on my blackberry in less than 2 minutes … so yea, I’m with rogers, not sure the problem … just forward it directly to you BB account

  • Chuck

    I tried the first tip of loggiing into hotmail and then going to tools and then options at the toolbar at the top of the webpage. There was no “maintenance” option.
    Is Hotmail Plus definitely POP capability that it will work with BB? I am not using the BB internet service, since I am using my mobile service provider’s internet service

  • http://www.archivo23.com Alejandro

    Muchas Gracias!!! TY TY finally i get to check mi mails on my BB

  • Debra
  • henri

    yea it didnt work for me, couldn’t find maintenace button, dont know if its cos i have vista. please find another option

  • Juan Carlos

    Hi, i have but is no comming the mails to my BB please help me

  • Rich

    If you got multiple e-mail addresses then either forward your main hotmail account to another e-mail account that is not a hotmail account and you should be able to send and receive through that.

    or if all fails then pay for the premium hotmail service!

  • Juan Carlos

    Doesn’t work i have 2 accounts of hotmail, and only can send emails from mi BB but no receive nothing. i hate this

  • Praveen

    I tried what Debra Said. That one worked for me.

    Debra,

    is there a way set alerts for this ? currently only option i got is to go to hotmail.com and do a refresh.

  • Praveen

    Debra,

    Your approach worked.

    But its same as the one that i had it working earlier.

    Earlier i was able to go to the mobile browser , type hotmial.com, enter username and password. that worked earlier.

    Even in the new approach its the same (New approach of using mobileWeb). Right now this works.But microsoft might make it a paid one in future. Also in this i got one txt msg so far. So if your provider charges your txt message then you may want to think twice about this new approach. So far i have only got one txt msg so fine. Also i dont know how to unsubscribe this one if incase i keep getting lots of txt msgs. Need to investigate this.

    But its so irritating why hotmail /blackberry is not offering this to their customers free of charge where as everyone else offers it for free.

  • alfahim

    yah i tried and i did everything there is to do but i could just send hotmails i couldent recieve them so plz if any 1 has the answer plz help me out

    thank u for everything uv done

  • david

    when i go into MY inbox on hotmail …there is a tools tab but only an internet options tab after that so I just cant get to do ANY of the things you guys say that you have done ? what am i doing wrong please ?

  • hamad

    the ‘tools’ menu does not show by default on installation of ‘live mail’ for windows and you have to select the dropdown option of ‘show all menus’ if you want to see it.

    you just need to locate the ‘options’ function on one of the menus (just look around) and then go to ‘advanced’ and continue as suggested by the author here.

    i also am not sure why this tip works (it did in my case) since all you are doing is maintaining troubleshooting logs by activating the feature. it may be a bug from MS end but a useful one it is.

    btw – i still think MS sucks for forcing such tactics on people even when they are going down.

  • Ginny Leigh

    Man I was trying so hard to figure this out and really bummed that it was not working, but this little tip worked, you are a life saver thanks

  • James

    The easiest thing to do without having to pay for a (free) hotmail account is to have all your messages forwarded to ya blackberry account. All the messages will also be save to ya hotmail account. Saves money, time, and headache of calling the phone carriers.

  • Mark N

    The problem w/ fwding is that friends people w/ tight spam filters will not receive my mail because on the unknown bb (or other) address.

  • Mark N

    i was able to follow the instructions and find the advanced tap in options after downloading the new Live client software. After changing the settings outlined above, i successfully registered the hotmail account via my att.bb site.

    I am able to send mail but do not receive mail. very frustrating to say the least.

  • Jason G

    idk about you guys, but i simply (on my att curve i got this week) typed in my hotmail email address and password and it worked instantly. no hotmail plus, no nothing. and it asks me (if i want to delete an item) on mailbox and handheld, or just on handheld. and i tried on mailbox as well, and when i went to my c, it worked, and the thing i deleted on my b was in my deleted folder. its not always ENtirely instant, but withen a reasonable amt of time. i also read that this is some new partnership from msn/hotmail to try and stay competitive against all the others.
    good luck

  • http://none john s

    I did the same with my pearl last winter and it worked fine. it even worked fine a second time when I set up my buddies in april

  • stephanie

    I just got the verizon bb curve this past weekedn and cannot receive my hotmail emails on it…i tried to fwd the mail from my hotmail acct and it wont let me ….any ideas on how to make this work? i really dont want to upgrade my hotmail acct or change emails if i dont have too.

  • Nickole

    FYI, hotmail and blackberry had a fight and they will not support hotmail on their devices. They supposedly are coming to some kind of agreement but seems far off, so, get yourself an email account specifically for your device!

  • Pete

    Yea so I’ve been working at T-mobile for 3 weeks now and I just got my Curve and I’d like to use hotmail on it but it wont let me.

    I didn’t opt to connect to the BES, so can I just get my hotmail email pushed to my device?

    Also, if the application download methods described above don’t work, can they be reversed?

    I heard when you download all these diff apps your device starts to act up.

    HELPPPPPPP, I need a surefire, safe, reliable way to get hotmail on my phone!!!

    Hotmail is my LIfe!!!!!!

  • Troy Taylor

    I can’t even access the hotmail website from my 8830, let alone redirect my email to it. It keeps giving me a Javascript error saying it does not support it. Any ideas?

  • HC

    If I subscribe to Windows Live Hotmail Plus (the $20 a year one) will I DEFINITELY be able to get hotmail messages on my brand new blackberry curve? I got it today and I’m so frustrated … trying to find ANY way to get my hotmail account on it easily. The above instructions didn’t work for me. I only need to read/reply to messages – none of the other features interest me .. but of course I cannot forward to a new account or the blackberry account. Please help!

  • http://blackberrysync.com bbSync

    Keep in mind everyone that this little trick may not work 100% but Microsoft and RIM have announced they will be teaming up to support Hotmail on BlackBerry devices very soon.

  • HC

    Anyone know exactly WHEN they will start working together? All I can find in the press releases is “expected this summer.”

  • Alex

    It didn’t work on my BB-curve. Any other suggestions?

  • david

    bought 2 new curves today at the att store, could not add hotmail account to the phones for approx 9 hours, then on the phones went to add personal email account, typed in userid and password and it worked all of a sudden, just like my yahoo mail

  • Scott

    I tried everything and still cannot get the email to be sent to my BB8310..I can send. Im hoping that it just takes a while…I had no problem on my 8300. i have no idea

  • Scott

    I guess what I am experienceing…Is my hotmail account works perfect, but I got my wife a new BB yesterday and her hotmail wont sync her inbox…I put my email account on her phone and it works perfectly. I put hers on her bb or my bb and nothing ….its crazy

  • Brian

    There is no rhyme or reason to this. I have a 8830 BB, with Sprint. Added my 2001 regular hotmail account no problem. Wife just got Pearl with Alltel, couldn’t even add her 2000 hotmail account until doing the windows live work around. My account added to her phone no prob btw. Her account sends but won’t receive. M$ sucks.

  • ROB

    Dre, after you upgrade to plus, do you have to delete then add your hotmail account on your BB agan? or should it work automatically. I just paid it and I’m waiting for it to work…

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