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
    2024-11-01T19:54:31+00:00

    Port 587 is not an option in gmail. What now?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-04T20:30:11+00:00

    It's still there:

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-13T09:50:51+00:00

    Do you know if this will work with 'Alias' addresses within your Outlook? I have a couple that I am unable to send from, but used your method to get the main account up and running again - thanks!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-13T14:51:48+00:00

    BTW, I can still send via gmail through my Hotmail address, which is my primary address. I have not been able to do so via my alias addresses via Outlook for quite a while, I believe most of this year. Fortunately, I don't use them a lot, so for the infrequent occasions, I send directly from Hotmail instead. But the key one, my primary account, through which I send via gmail all the time, is still working.

    As noted above in this thread, I encourage everyone to send a feedback to Google about this issue. I did, and I think I will do it again. Keep bombarding them about this, and hopefuly they will fix it. After all, they offer a service, but it's broken; why offer it if you won't fix it.

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