Settings for using Outlook/Hotmail SMTP via Gmail

Anonymous
2024-02-04T05:47:47+00:00

I have a few e-mail accounts, all online rather than desktop application, for differing reasons – no, none for anything dishonest or malevolent, not for spamming, nothing negative. And I normally use a gmail account to handle my Hotmail e-mail, and Outlook e-mail. (I have a couple extra account names I use in Hotmail, one is an Outlook name. That is, the e-mail to my Outlook name will come into my Hotmail account, as the Outlook name is effectively an alternate name for my Hotmail account. This is something you can do in Hotmail settings).

Mail coming into my Hotmail account automatically goes over to my Gmail account. When an e-mail originally comes into my Hotmail account using the Outlook name, it is moved over to my Gmail. When I respond to it from gmail, it will go via my Hotmail account using the Outlook name. That is set up in gmail, via SMTM (just like from a desktop e-mail client, which is what I use my gmail as, as my interface for Hotmail, because I find gmail preferable). 

OK, now to the point. In recent months, when I get an incoming e-mail in my gmail account from my Outlook (Hotmail) account, and I try to respond to it, it is sent back saying it can’t connect, says I need to check my SMTP settings. Well, I have checked, and I checked to see if Hotmail/Outlook changed them since originally set up. My settings are exactly what Hotmail/Microsoft says they should be.

SMTP server: smtp.office365.com

user name: (that is the Outlook e-mail address)

password: (correct)

Port: 587




All that matches what Microsoft/Hotmail instructs to use. 

But there is a problem. Any ideas?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-26T19:56:26+00:00

    Sorry, I have been pulled away from this by life. I don't have much time to delve into it for now. However I just checked again.

    I was using the SMTP server still as SMTP.office365.com. All else is as Fiules immediately above posts. It will not change it to: hotmail-com.olc.protection.outlook.com.

    When I try to change it, I get the message: "Couldn't reach server. Please double-check the server and port number." It doesn't accept the office 365 server, it won't accept the protection.outlook.com one. Or any other I try to change to.

    Unable to make that change, I can't even get to a point where I can test whether it solves the problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-26T19:12:09+00:00

    Hi,

    I have the same problem.

    Using these settings and no success. I tried all other servers as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T19:30:37+00:00

    Hey there, any update about this? I ve read the whole story and still having troubles with the same issue. Please let me know if u could fixed it :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-15T16:29:26+00:00

    me1004,

    Were you able to get it to work? I'm trying to do the same thing, and I ran into a wall as well. Please let me know if were able to successfully to get it to work.

    Thanks,

    fv

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T15:24:33+00:00

    @Never Community Worker, thank you for all that and the effort. However, that is beyond anything I can do. Also, I am not doing this from my desktop via some application, I am doing it from my browser on the Interent, and the SMTP settings from my Gmail account to send that through my Hotmail account. I believe what you are saying would be behind the scenes, on the Gmail server or maybe the Hotmail/Outlook server. My only access for that is the settings we have been talking about: my Hotmail login, select one of the three port choices (I have tried all three), and the SMTP "address" (not sure what that is called, I'm calling it "address"). There is nothing else I can access in the settings.

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