Hotmail Popper

Hotmail Popper is a small application that allows you to check your Hotmail account e-mail from a normal POP mail client (such as Eudora). Unlike standard mail accounts which allow users to retrieve their e-mail through a POP mail client, Hotmail can normally only be checked on the web. With Hotmail Popper, you can use your favorite POP mail client to retrieve your e-mail from your Hotmail account.

This guide shows you how to get SpamPal to work with Hotmail Popper, which should give you spam free access to your hotmail account!

Download the following file (main site here)

http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/hotpop-2.0.3.exe

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By default SpamPal and Hotmail Popper will try to use the same POP3 port to access your email (port 110), so you firstly need to setup Hotmail Popper to use a different POP3 port.

So, access the Hotmail Popper settings, by right clicking it's systray icon and selecting options:

Now, change the default POP port from 110 to port 1101

If you are using SpamPal's SMTP auto-whitelist feature then you will find that Hotmail Popper and SpamPal will both try to use port 25. So, in order to avoid this, you must tell Hotmail Popper to use a different port for it's SMTP server, for example; port 251.

Once you've changed the Hotmail Popper SMTP port to 251, you will also have to change the SMTP port on your email program, to the same port number 251 but only for the account your are using for Hotmail

For example, in Outlook Express, you need to do this in the Advanced screen:

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You now need to configure your email program, to use Hotmail Popper and SpamPal, in this example, we'll just configure the POP3 protocol and assume your hotmail email address is: myaddr@hotmail.com

So, make sure your Incoming Mail (POP3) is set to: 127.0.0.1

Now, change your Account name (sometimes called Username) to this format:

myaddr@hotmail.com@127.0.0.1:1101
Password : your_hotmail_password

As you will be sending out email via Hotmail (through Hotmail Popper), you will now need to tick My Server requires authentication

So, you should now have something that looks like this screen (Outlook Express):

As you will be sending out email via Hotmail (through Hotmail Popper), you will now need to click on the Settings button to change the settings for your Outgoing Mail Server

Now, Select the Log on using button and then enter your normal Hotmail username and password,
for example:

Account name: myaddr@hotmail.com
Password : your_hotmail_password

So, you should now have something that looks like this screen (Outlook Express):

Following this change, your email program, talks to SpamPal on it's normal pop3 port 110.

SpamPal then receives a request to talk to 127.0.0.1 on port 1101 (which is Hotmail Popper).

As Hotmail Popper is looking at port 1101, it sees SpamPal's request forwards it onto Hotmail's sever.

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Note left by Chad Ganger at 2005-09-19 04:57:56

Your program too complicated for a novice. There are no simple instrctions to use SpamPal effectively. I have tried to place many emails in blackemails, yet they keep coming.

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Note left by Paul at 2006-02-26 09:37:11

Works great, didn't use it with SpamPal just used it to configure Hotmail Popper with ProfiMail and Hotmail

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