Office Live Email Accounts and Blackberry

Office Live email is based on Windows Hotmail, so if you can setup an Internet email account on your Blackberry it should be no problem.

Well a Hotmail Plus account is very simple to setup with BlackBerry Internet Service. You simply enter your Email Address and your password and wa-la it works!!

However entering Office Live Email accounts do not resolve.

And even if you enter the same server information as a MSN / Hotmail Plus you cannot authenticate.

Here is what the BlackBerry Internet Service interface looks like.

Want to take a shot at telling me what server address to enter?

E-mail Address:
User Name:	Password:
Server: (e.g. mail.earthlink.net)
Server Type: POPIMAP Use SSL

jmjames8@hotmail.com

So is there a solution for getting office-live email on the blackberry?

As far as I can decipher, you can only access via browsing on your windows mobile device OR by downloading MSN mobile. BOTH are pains and defeat the purpose of mobile email which is the notification part! (handy dandy vibrations)

I have an IPhone and intitially I was able to configure it to work with my MSN account but only after a great deal of work.( I had to remove windows live maps as well). It actually worked for the first week flawlessly but since then I have had to delete and re-enter the acount a couple of times and currently it is not working again. I ended up forwarding all of my MSN emial to my gmail account and am slowly transitioning over.

In any case I did nd configured it as a POP3 account intially . I use outlook (not express) at home and that is also set up as a POP3 account but it is difficult if not impossible to get any tech support from my provider Qwest.. On rare occassions they "allow" me to talk to MSN and once you get through they always are able to give me the settings.

Here is what I use in oultlook 2003 (these settings changed in july to the plive.com from msn.com)
incoming mail server pop3.live.com
outgoing server smtp.live.com
user name XXXX@msn.com (use your entire email address here not your actual name)
select remember password but don't select log on using secure password authentication

Go to the more settings and on the outgoing server tab select the option that your outgoing server requires authentication and that your incoming server uses the same settings.
On the advanced settins tab select for both incoming and outgoing servers "encrypted connection" and the ports are incoming 995 and outgoing 25

On the I-phone they recommend synching it via your computer. It will blow in the settings for you if you have outlook setup correctly. If not you manually would need to setup the incomig server as pop3.live.com and the outgoing server as smtp.live.com:25 and in the advanced settings you would turn on incoming and outgoing use SSL.

Again I was able to get the Iphone to work for a few weeks at a time twice with these settings but it currently doesn't.

What is the server name for office live email accounts