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i have recently switched email clients to a different program, and am having problems setting it up. is it possible to set it up to send and recieve emails via myy hotmail account, but still in the web-clients own program?? if so, what are the pop3 and smtp servers???

It has been a very long time since I've messed around with Hotmail, so I can't really say.

But just to clarify - you want to send e-mails via your hotmail account - but from your e-mail reader program?

What I do know - is that I don't think Hotmail runs with ordinary POP3 and SMTP settings, so it is unlikely you would be able to use any e-mail client.
However - I seem to recall reading that Outlook Express 6 could be set up to use a Hotmail identity instead of ordinary e-mail accounts. So it is likely possible in some specific e-mail programs, but not all, because they are web-based and you don't contact them via POP3 and/or SMTP.....

But as I said, I'm not sure - it is just based on what I know/have read around.
I dont' use Hotmail myself, so I can't even test it out for you.

just to clarify - you want to send e-mails via your hotmail account - but from your e-mail reader program?

thats exactly what i want to do, but it appears ill have to
give it a miss then, unless anyone else has any ideas

would it be possible to use my isp server (freeserve) but still have the outgoing mail adress as my hotmail adress?? the isp account is in my dads name, so i do not want to use that as the outgoing address. if so, would the servers simply be pop3.freeserve.co.uk and mail.freeserve.co.uk???

When setting up an e-mail program you specify a "return adress"/e-mail adress.
This will be the adresss used when people press "reply" and also what is visible when people read your e-mails.

So yes - it would be possible, if your ISP (freeserve?) has e-mail account (provides smtp server)

Then you should set up your account as normal, but instead of typing the e-mail adress you likely have gotten from your ISP, you type your hotmail e-mail adress.
Then you will send e-mails via your ISP, but replies should be delivered to your reply adress (hotmail).

This would also be how you would attempt to send from your e-mail program, in your original question. The problem is that you can't download e-mails from Hotmail (to my knowlegde) withouth using a web-based interface (web-browser).

So just to recap.
Set up your e-mail program with outgoing server (smtp) from your ISP.
The e-mail adress should be your "reply to" e-mail, thus after what you say - your hotmail.
POP3 is rather insignificant, because if you only wish to use your hotmail, you would not use your e-mail program to download. But fill this out with your ISP information.

For instance my own e-mail program is Outlook. I have one ISP but 4 other services providing e-mails.
All e-mails I send go out via my ISP smtp server, but I download from 4 differnet POP3 accounts, and subsequently have 4 different "reply to" e-mail adressed connected to each relevant e-mail account setting.

I hope this made sences, because it can quickly become a tad technical

Otherwise - I'll try to find some screen shots of settings (on english - run danish version's myself, so names differ) to see if that can help you?

well i am still using msn messenger anyway, so recieving email is not a problem. i think i have it working now... only time will tell