你还记得使用微软^(Microsoft)的Hotmail电子邮件服务吗？多年来，微软^(Microsoft)提供了各种云电子邮件服务，并多次重新命名。

当您关注 Microsoft 从Microsoft Hotmail^{(Microsoft Hotmail)}到Live Mail并最终到Outlook Web 应用程序的过渡时，这些更名变得更加混乱。

MSN Hotmail – 发生了什么？

1996 年，当基于 Web 的电子邮件服务刚刚普及时，Sabeer Bhatia和 Jack Smith推出了Hotmail Web 服务。当时唯一的其他主要电子邮件服务是美国在线^{(America Online)}( AOL )。

这是最早的基于云的电子邮件服务之一，它允许用户 通过他们可以通过他们的网络浏览器使用的全功能网络客户端登录到Hotmail 。

1997 年， 微软^(Microsoft)收购了Hotmail，并将其更名为MSN Hotmail。

MSN Hotmail积累了庞大的用户群。然后，在 2005 年，微软^(Microsoft)重新设计了整个网络邮件服务，并将其重新命名为Windows Live产品中的一个产品。它被称为Windows Live Hotmail。

这么多用户的过渡需要一些时间。许多用户抱怨这些变化。多年来，用户继续在Google上搜索他们的“ Hotmail登录”页面——对^(Hotmail)Windows Live 的巨大设计变化感到困惑。

更复杂的是，微软^(Microsoft)在 2012 年完全停止了Windows Live Hotmail （连同所有Windows Live）。

至于他们基于云的网络邮件产品，微软^(Microsoft)完全重新命名为 Outlook.com。

Outlook.com 与 Outlook 桌面

Outlook.com经常被用户（错误地）称为Outlook Online，是微软在其单一品牌Outlook下整合电子邮件服务的最后尝试。

不幸的是，对于已经习惯了微软基于桌面的客户端（即Outlook ）的用户来说，这变得非常混乱。

微软^(Microsoft) 试图通过维护用户在其每一代产品中使用的所有各种电子邮件帐户来简化过渡，包括：

• @hotmail.com
• @live.com
• @msn.com
• @passport.com

当其他 Microsoft用户收到来自拥有这些帐户的人的电子邮件时，他们认为他们也可以使用相同的服务创建自己的电子邮件帐户。当他们搜索Hotmail或Microsoft Live的登录页面时，他们再也找不到这些网站了。

即使在今天，如果您在 Web 浏览器中键入“hotmail.com”或“live.com”，您将被重定向到Outlook.live.com，这是当前Microsoft网络邮件服务品牌Outlook.com。

Office 365 网络邮件

更复杂的是，微软^(Microsoft)在 2011 年推出了一款名为 Office 365的产品。

该产品专门面向那些希望通过简单的企业订阅计划为员工提供所需的所有Office产品的简单方法的企业销售。^(Office)

令人困惑的原因是，微软^(Microsoft)在 2015 年将桌面办公产品以及其 Web 应用程序集合合并到了一个共同的品牌保护伞 Office 365下。这些 Web 应用程序包括Outlook Mail Web 应用程序。

如果您访问Outlook.com并在^{(Outlook.com)}Microsoft中注册一个基于 Web 的电子邮件帐户 ，您将看到与注册Office 365订阅并使用Outlook 邮件^{(Outlook Mail)}网络应用程序。

事实上，如果您使用同一个Microsoft帐户登录，您将看到完全相同的电子邮件收件箱。

这是因为最终处理传入和传出电子邮件的基于 Web 的电子邮件服务是Outlook.com，而 Web 应用程序本身被称为 Outlook Mail，可通过Office 365访问或仅通过访问 outlook.com 访问。

无论哪种情况，您都会找到自己的最终URL是^(URL)outlook.live.com。

使用Outlook从您的Outlook.com 帐户^{(Outlook.com Account)}读取电子邮件^(Email)

如果您发现这一切都令人困惑，那么您并不孤单。

值得庆幸的是，有一种方法可以使所有内容保持排序，只需使用Outlook桌面客户端提取到达Outlook.com帐户的所有电子邮件。

为此，您可以在Outlook.com帐户上启用^{(Outlook.com)}POP访问，然后连接Outlook桌面客户端以从该服务中提取电子邮件。

设置^(Set)Outlook.com以允许POP^{(POP Connections)}连接

登录^(Log)您的Outlook.com电子邮件帐户。单击^(Click)您的个人资料图片附近的齿轮图标^{(gear icon)}以输入帐户设置。在快速^(Quick)设置面板的底部，单击查看所有 Outlook 设置^{(View all Outlook settings)}。

在此弹出窗口的导航窗格中，单击同步电子邮件^{(Sync email)}。向下滚动到POP 和 IMAP^{(POP and IMAP)}设置部分。

在此窗口中，调整以下设置：

• 将 让设备和应用程序使用 POP^{(Let devices and apps use POP)}设置为Yes。
• 启用 让应用程序和设备从 Outlook 中删除邮件^{(Let apps and devices delete messages from Outlook)}。
• 记下POP 设置^{(POP setting)}和SMT 设置^{(SMT settings)}。
• 单击 保存^(Save)以确认更改。

现在，您的 Outlook.com帐户已配置为允许您的Outlook桌面客户端从您的基于 Web 的帐户中提取电子邮件。

配置 Outlook 桌面客户端

在台式电脑上打开 Outlook。

如果系统提示您登录Microsoft帐户，请单击高级选项，然后选中^{(Advanced Options)}让我手动设置我的帐户^{(Let me set up my account manually)}旁边的复选框。然后，单击连接^(Connect)按钮。

在弹出窗口中，从连接列表中选择POP 。

注意^(Note)：为什么不选择 Office 365 或 Outlook.com？如果您这样做，您将能够从您的在线 Outlook 帐户中阅读电子邮件，但您将无法让您的电子邮件客户端从该帐户中删除电子邮件。^{(: Why not select Office 365 or Outlook.com? If you do this, you’ll be able to read emails from your online Outlook account, but you won’t be able to have your email client delete emails from that account.)}

键入您的Outlook.com帐户的密码，然后单击连接^(Connect)。

您将看到一个窗口，您需要在其中输入POP 帐户设置^{(POP Account Settings)}。填写^(Fill)您在上面启用POP访问时记录的POP和SMTP的POP设置。

单击下一步^(Next)继续。输入Outlook.com帐户的密码。

您应该会看到一个帐户已成功添加^{(Account successfully added)}的 通知窗口。单击完成^(Done) 按钮以完成设置。

Outlook 桌面将打开。下次刷新时，您会看到Outlook.com电子邮件到达收件箱^(Inbox)。

如果您发现收件箱的更新速度不够快，您可以使 Outlook更频繁地检索您的电子邮件的频率。

去做这个：

• 单击文件^(File)菜单
• 单击 选项^(Options)
• 在弹出的选项^(Options)窗口中，单击 左侧窗格中的高级^(Advanced)
• 向下滚动到发送和接收^{(Send and receive)}部分，然后单击Send/Receive
• 在所有帐户^{(All Accounts)}部分下，将 Schedule an automatic send/receive every 设置从 30 分钟更改为更短的时间间隔

过渡到 Outlook.com

如果您是仍有Hotmail.com或Live.com电子邮件地址的众多用户之一，则可以通过向您的帐户添加电子邮件别名来开始转换为使用Outlook.com电子邮件地址。^{(Outlook.com)}

您可以按如下方式添加此新Outlook.com帐户：^{(Outlook.com)}

1. 单击您的个人资料图片，然后单击查看帐户^{(View Account)}。
2. 在帐户页面上，单击您的信息^{(Your info)}。
3. 单击管理您的登录电子邮件或电话号码^{(Manage your sign-in email or phone number)}。
4. 在帐户别名^{(Account aliases)}部分，单击添加电子邮件^{(Add email)}。

在这里，您可以为新的 Outlook.com 电子邮件键入您想要的别名，然后单击添加别名^{(Add alias)}以将新电子邮件添加到您的帐户。

要确保使用此新别名发送电子邮件：

1. 单击^(Click)齿轮^(Gear)图标以输入您的帐户设置。
2. 单击选项^(Options)或查看所有 Outlook 设置^{(View All Outlook Settings)}。
3. 在左侧窗格中，选择Mail，单击Accounts，然后选择Connected Accounts。如果此选项不存在，请选择Mail，然后选择Sync Email。
4. 找到下拉框以更改发件人^(From)地址并选择您的新Outlook.com电子邮件。

这会将您的默认电子邮件从Hotmail.com或Live.com更改为您的新Outlook.com 地址。这个小改动将完成您向世界上其他人现在正在使用的同一个Microsoft^(Microsoft) 电子邮件帐户的迁移！

Miss Hotmail? Microsoft Outlook Email Services Explained

Do you remember using Microsoft’s Hotmail email serviсe? Throughoυt thе years, Microsoft hаs offered a variety of cloud еmail services that it has rebranded several times.

These rebrands become even more confusing when you follow Microsoft’s transition from Microsoft Hotmail, to Live Mail, and finally to the Outlook web app.

MSN Hotmail – What Happened?

In 1996, when web-based email services were just gaining popularity, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched the Hotmail web service. The only other major email service at the time was America Online (AOL).

This was one of the first cloud-based email services that let users sign-in to Hotmail through a fully-functional web client they could use through their web browser.

In 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail and rebranded it as MSN Hotmail.

MSN Hotmail amassed a huge user base. Then, in 2005, Microsoft redesigned the entire webmail service, and rebranded it as one product in its Windows Live offering. It was referred to as Windows Live Hotmail.

The transition for so many users took some time. Many users complained about the changes. And for years, users continued searching on Google for their “Hotmail login” page – confused by the dramatic design change to Windows Live.

To make matters even more complicated, Microsoft discontinued Windows Live Hotmail entirely (along with all of Windows Live) in 2012.

As for their cloud-based webmail offering, Microsoft completely rebranded again with Outlook.com.

Outlook.com vs. Outlook Desktop

Frequently referred to (incorrectly) by users as Outlook Online, Outlook.com was Microsoft’s final attempt to consolidate email services under its single brand known as Outlook.

Unfortunately, this became very confusing for users who were already well-accustomed to Microsoft’s desktop-based client, already known as Outlook.

Microsoft tried to ease the transition by maintaining all the various email accounts users had used throughout every generation of its products, including:

• @hotmail.com
• @live.com
• @msn.com
• @passport.com

When other Microsoft users would receive emails from people with these accounts, they assumed they could also create their own email accounts with the same service. When they searched for the sign-in page for Hotmail or Microsoft Live, they couldn’t find those websites anymore.

Even today, if you type “hotmail.com” or “live.com” into your web browser, you’ll get redirected to outlook.live.com, which is the current Microsoft webmail service branded as Outlook.com.

Office 365 Webmail

To make matters even more complicated, in 2011 Microsoft launched a product known as Office 365.

This product was especially marketed to businesses looking for an easy way to provide employees with all the Office products they need, under a simple enterprise subscription plan.

The confusion comes from the fact that in 2015, Microsoft combined desktop office products as well as its collection of web apps under the common brand umbrella Office 365. These web apps included the Outlook Mail web app.

If you were to go to Outlook.com and sign up for just a web-based email account with Microsoft, you’ll see the same exact web client interface as you’ll see if you sign up for an Office 365 subscription and use the Outlook Mail web app.

In fact, if you sign in under the same Microsoft account, you’ll see the same exact email inbox.

This is because ultimately the web-based email service handling the incoming and outgoing emails is Outlook.com, while the web app itself is known as Outlook Mail, accessed via Office 365 or simply by visiting outlook.com.

In either case, the final URL you’ll find yourself on is outlook.live.com.

Reading Email from Your Outlook.com Account with Outlook

If you find this all confusing, you aren’t alone.

Thankfully, there’s one way to keep everything sorted, by just using your Outlook desktop client to pull in all emails that arrive in your Outlook.com account.

You can do this by enabling POP access on your Outlook.com account, and then connecting your Outlook desktop client to pull emails from that service.

Set up Outlook.com to Allow POP Connections

Log into your Outlook.com email account. Click on the gear icon near your profile picture to enter account settings. At the bottom of the Quick settings panel, click on View all Outlook settings.

In the navigation pane of this pop-up window, click on Sync email. Scroll down to the POP and IMAP settings section.

In this window, adjust the following settings:

• Set Let devices and apps use POP to Yes.
• Enable Let apps and devices delete messages from Outlook.
• Make note of the POP setting and SMT settings.
• Click Save to confirm changes.

Now your Outlook.com account is configured to allow your Outlook desktop client to pull emails from your web-based account.

Configure Outlook Desktop Client

Open Outlook on your desktop PC.

If you’re prompted to log into your Microsoft account, click on Advanced Options, and select the checkbox next to Let me set up my account manually. Then, click the Connect button.

On the pop-up window, choose POP from the connection list.

Note: Why not select Office 365 or Outlook.com? If you do this, you’ll be able to read emails from your online Outlook account, but you won’t be able to have your email client delete emails from that account.

Type the password for your Outlook.com account and click Connect.

You’ll see a window where you need to enter POP Account Settings. Fill in the POP settings for both POP and SMTP that you recorded when you enabled POP access above.

Click on Next to continue. Enter the password for your Outlook.com account.

You should see an Account successfully added notification window. Click the Done button to finish setup.

Outlook desktop will open. When it refreshes next, you’ll see your Outlook.com emails arriving in the Inbox.

If you find that the inbox isn’t updating fast enough, you can make the frequency that Outlook retrieves your emails more frequently.

To do this:

• Click the File menu
• Click Options
• On the pop-up Options window, click on Advanced from the left pane
• Scroll down to the Send and receive section and click Send/Receive
• Under the All Accounts section, change the Schedule an automatic send/receive every setting from 30 minutes to a shorter time interval

Transitioning to Outlook.com

If you’re one of the many users who still have a Hotmail.com or Live.com email address, you can start to make the transition to using an Outlook.com email address by adding an email alias to your account.

You can add this new Outlook.com account as follows:

1. Clicking on your Profile picture and clicking on View Account.
2. On the account page, click on Your info.
3. Click on Manage your sign-in email or phone number.
4. In the Account aliases section, click Add email.

Here, you can type an alias you’d like for your new outlook.com email and click Add alias to add the new email to your account.

To make sure emails get sent using this new alias:

1. Click on the Gear icon to enter your account settings.
2. Click on Options or View All Outlook Settings.
3. In the left pane, choose Mail, click Accounts, and select Connected Accounts. If this option isn’t there, select Mail, then Sync Email.
4. Find the dropdown box to change the From address and choose your new Outlook.com email.

This will change your default email from Hotmail.com or Live.com to your new Outlook.com address. This small change will complete your migration to the same Microsoft email account everyone else in the world is now using!

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