Hotmail, operated by Microsoft, is a web based Email service with 5GB expandable memory. Attracting 270 million users worldwide, Hotmail offers email services, calendar services, allows us to manage contact addresses, and even chat services.
Everyone wants to share his or her pictures and photos through email. Sending pictures via email using hotmail is very easy comparative to others. In this, you have two options in “Attach’ option; file or photo. By selecting the appropriate one, you can email pictures.
How to Email a Picture on Hotmail
- Sign into your account and select the option ‘New’ on the top of the email box.
- Look at the top of the email box, you can view several options like send, save draft, attach, spell check, and set priority. Click on ‘Attach.’
- You have the options to select ‘File’ or Photo.’ Select ‘Photo’ and clock ‘Ok’ and begin installation. If you did not install active X control, you will get a message stating that this program require the Active X control.
- Install the software and then proceed further.
- Select the folders where you have stored the pictures and images. Check the box on the top of the picture or images you want to send. Select the options to edit or rotate the picture.
- Click on the ‘Upload Now.’ This will relocate you to email page and required photo is attached.
- Click on ‘Send’ to email t5he picture by typing the email address.
If the ‘Attach Photo’ option is used, the recipient will see small image reduced in size to a maximum of 600 pixels. This can be overcome if you select ‘Attach File’ option. This enables recipient to see same size of picture, but he cannot edit or preview the thumbnails at the hotmail web interface.
Microsoft offers support for Hotmail and Windows Live emails that can be synchronized by the Mail applications on your iPhone. The iPhone has the capability to not only read the mails in your hotmail or Live account, it can also use the iPhone as a substitute for sending emails using the .Net Passport.
How to Setup Hotmail or Windows Live Mail on Your IPhone
- Go to the control panel on the iPhone and select the “Mail, Contacts, and Calendars” option.
- Select “Accounts” and then select “Add Account”.
- Select “Other” in the resultant screen.
- Fill in the details pertaining to your account. Enter your name in the Name box. In the Address Box, input your hotmail address or the Windows Live Email address. Enter the full email address such as email_id@hotmail.com
- Enter your password in the Password Box. The password should be the one corresponding to the email ID you entered.
- In the Description box, type in a description that will help you identify the account.
- Select Save. A message will appear. It is not necessary so you can click on the Next button. The Next button is locate on the top right of the iPhone.
- Go back to the Accounts and select the option. When the iPhone shows the list of email IDs, select the one you just created.
- The properties page appears on the screen. In the Outgoing Mail Server, select SMPT. In the Primary Server box, type “smtp.live.com”. This is the address of your outgoing mail server.
- Check the following and correct the settings if they do not match the following:
- Server = ON; “USE SSL” = ON; Authentication = “Password”; “Server Port” = 587 or 25.
- Click/Tap two times on the top left corner of the iPhone, where you see SMTP. This will take you to the menu called Advanced. Select the menu.
- Check the “Income Settings”. Make sure the “Use SSL” is ON. Keep “Authentication” to password. Set the “Server Port” to 995.
- Return to the previous menu by tapping the top left corner of the iPhone three times. Click the home button and you are all set. You can now check your hotmail and Windows Live account whenever you want.
You can now answer is anyone asks you how to setup hotmail or windows live mail on your iPhone