.. . .winston wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
Homer wrote:

I think you should update hotmail to outlook.

That won't affect the EAS (Exchange Active Sync) protocol being used.
The hostname the OP gave for the mail server looks very much like those
used for EAS connects by MS Outlook 2013 (and perhaps WLM, too). The
domain name won't affect the mail protocol. You connect to the same
[regional] mail server no matter if you use Hotmail.com, Live.com, or
Outlook.com as the domain. Even with the mail servers having different
hostnames, you'll find a reverse DNS lookup points to the same IP
address. Also, when using a local e-mail client, you aren't connecting
to a web site but to a mail server. The domain name is just how you get
there, not what's running there. Many Hotmail users that got migrated
to Outlook.com (because they thought it was a requirement) now have
linked Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts: multiple accounts but using the
same mail service.

I have 6 Microsoft accounts: 2 Hotmail.com, 2 Live.com, and 2
Outlook.com. I have used POP, IMAP, Deltasync, and EAS, in that order,
to connect to all of them at one time or another. I use the same mail
server hostname for each one. To domain name is irrelevant other than
to find the host, and its the same host under multiple hostnames.
However, someone in the UK will be using a regional mail server in their
area or however Microsoft wants to setup load balancing for their
worldwide populace of users.


Technically there was no migration of accounts from Hotmail.com to
Outlook.com - the web interface UI was the change.

What did occur was the option (if the was
available) to switch the account from a to
. Key word is 'available' since their can only be
one (i.e. might opted for
before elvis@hotmail or live or msn.com decided to do
the same).

My recollection is that the users that chose to migrate back then would
still keep their old Hotmail.com and Live.com e-mail addresses after
moving to the Outlook.com e-mail address. The old Hotmail and Live
addresses became, I think, aliases in their new Outlook.com account.
It's been awhile since that faked force migration happened. Microsoft
led users to believe they had to migrate to Outlook.com and many did.
My aunt, stepmom, and others asked me about it and I told them that they
did not have to change and they could continue using their old Hotmail
e-mail address and account.

Yep, just the webmail UI changed. It's been so long since I used the
webmail UI to Microsoft accounts that I can't say if the new UI is
better than the old one. I only know that it's different than before
and tries to emulate a local client UI than the typical webmail UI.