Hotmail and Outlook Express.

[Boomyal]

Is anyone aware of any issues about Outlook Express communicating with Hotmail? I set up a friends laptop to receive his Hotmail email through OE. It worked fine for a short while. All of a sudden they quit communicating. There a couple of outgoing emails stuck in the 'outbox'.

I brought his computer home to check it out and when I opened OE, it downloaded 3 emails then went into error and never sent the two emails that had been sitting in the 'outbox'. The error states that (I am paraphrasing) that the server is not responding.

 

[beardeddone]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

Is anyone aware of any issues about Outlook Express communicating with Hotmail? I set up a friends laptop to receive his Hotmail email through OE. It worked fine for a short while. All of a sudden they quit communicating. There a couple of outgoing emails stuck in the 'outbox'.

I brought his computer home to check it out and when I opened OE, it downloaded 3 emails then went into error and never sent the two emails that had been sitting in the 'outbox'. The error states that (I am paraphrasing) that the server is not responding.

I don't use Outlook Express any more but you could check this out
If that don't work out for you, you might try Mozilla Thunderbird it also allows multiple email accounts.
Good Luck

 

[Augoose]

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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/...ll-hotmail-via-outlook-express-on-september-1

If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up. Microsoft will be cutting off your access in three months. On September 1, 2009, the support for Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), the protocol that Outlook Express and a handful of older clients currently use to access Hotmail, will be discontinued.

I'm surprised it worked at all. Maybe it was showing messages that have been locally saved? Also, the Hotmail domain is going / has gone away and is becoming Username@outlook.com, so it might be a good time to switch that over too. I'd set up a new outlook.com account and tie it in with Microsoft Outlook.

 

[lexer440]

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Old hotmail account will still work with outlook but not outlook express. you will need to download hotmail outlook connector from microsoft, its an add-in that allows it to work.

 

[oldjeep]

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Also, the Hotmail domain is going / has gone away and is becoming Username@outlook.com, so it might be a good time to switch that over too. I'd set up a new outlook.com account and tie it in with Microsoft Outlook.

Hotmail accounts are not going away - you can still sign up for new ones (I just set up a new one today for a guest account on my surface). What is changing is that you can use the online version of outlook with the Hotmail accounts.

 

[Augoose]

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Hotmail accounts are not going away - you can still sign up for new ones (I just set up a new one today for a guest account on my surface). What is changing is that you can use the online version of outlook with the Hotmail accounts.

Ooops - you're correct. When I started getting the outlook based emails on my hotmail account from Microsoft, it gave the impression that hotmail was shutting down. After researching it again today, it seems they will continue both.
Sorry for the incorrect info.

 

[Boomyal]

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I ended up 'removing' the hotmail setup from Outlook Express, Just as I deleted the setup, it downloaded a whole slug of emails from Hotmail. Then it was gone. I have tried to study up on Outlook and Outlook.com but Microsoft does not seem to want to make this email thing friendly like it always was with Outlook Express. I want a computer based process that does not cost money!

 

[Augoose]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

What is it you are trying to do?
Outlook Express is not available with Vista or Windows 7 but you can use Microsoft Office Outlook or Windows Live Mail (part of Windows Essentials, all free and internet based) with any of the free internet based email accounts (hotmail, outlook, yahoo, gmail, etc).
There are several versions of Outlook available (2007, 2010, and 2013 is coming).

Is the issue that you don't want to have to spend money for an email management program like Microsoft Outlook and don't want to use each of the free internet based email's own email interface?

 

[oldjeep]

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You can access Hotmail from any email app that can use POP 3, so I'm not sure what your issues are.

Here is a simple step by step
Send and receive Hotmail from an email app - Send and receive Hotmail from an email app

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

......Is the issue that you don't want to have to spend money for an email management program like Microsoft Outlook and don't want to use each of the free internet based email's own email interface?

What I had hoped to do was to use the Outlook Express that came with the Win XP OS on this laptop...and I wanted to be able to use it with my friends Hotmail address. Like I said, it worked for a couple of weeks then became unable to communicate with Hotmail. On two different occasions, since it stopped working, it intermittently would hook up and download a few emails then go into error status. This is all with a fresh OS and OE reload, so the chances of any corruption is pretty slim.

I did google the subject and along with some statements made here, there does seem to be some problems with Hotmail and OE. I know that there are instructions on how to configure the match up. Those are what I used to set it up in the first place.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

You can access Hotmail from any email app that can use POP 3, so I'm not sure what your issues are.

Here is a simple step by step
Send and receive Hotmail from an email app - Send and receive Hotmail from an email app

I will try to reset it up using the information in this link. As I already removed the setup I will not be able to see if the information in your link differs from what I originally used. Suffice it to say that what I did use worked well for a few weeks.

 

[oldjeep]

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I will try to reset it up using the information in this link. As I already removed the setup I will not be able to see if the information in your link differs from what I originally used. Suffice it to say that what I did use worked well for a few weeks.

Also make sure you have whatever updates are available for the software you are using. XP is extremely outdated, so it wouldn't surprise me a whole lot if you were having issues connecting software that comes with it to anything modern.

 

[NYBo]

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I had a problem with one of my e-mail accounts that sounds similar. I was able to fix it be deleting a couple of messages from the e-mail server using the web interface for my provider. Well, it was actually something like 10,000 messages; my e-mail client was set to leave all messages on the server after downloading them.:redface:

Augoose, Windows Live Mail is NOT web-based. It's an e-mail client that is installed on your computer..

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

I am currently using OE with my reagan.com email. I have no problems with it. It works flawlessly.

I might be inclined to try Windows Live mail resident client for my friend but I cannot find out enough details on it, such as, will an email opened in WLM access Windows Fax and Picture Viewer for attached photographs? OR will WLM do POP setup for other email programs? Every thing that I have read only talks about linking up with HotMail or LiveMail. They do not mention other mail programs.

 

[NYBo]

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I use WLM to access my Hotmail, Gmail, and IP-provided e-mail accounts.

 

[Boomyal]

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I use WLM to access my Hotmail, Gmail, and IP-provided e-mail accounts.

In WLM, can you open an attached picture with Windows Fax and Picture Viewer? Also if you have the program open (but minimized), do you get a little email notification in the startup tray? I did read that WLM for WinXp is really just a re-skinned OE but without some of it's features like separate identities and something related to no HTML setting, which I do not understand anyway.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

I finally found this statement on a Microsoft Support webpage:

"Note Microsoft Network (MSN) Hotmail no longer lets you use Outlook Express to access free e-mail accounts. If you want to use Outlook Express to access your MSN Hotmail account, you must have a Hotmail Plus account."

Here is the link. IMHO, this is kind of sucky! You would have thought that this situation would have gotten wider acknowledgement.

How to configure Outlook Express 6.0 for Internet mail

 

[colbyt]

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Also make sure you have whatever updates are available for the software you are using. XP is extremely outdated, so it wouldn't surprise me a whole lot if you were having issues connecting software that comes with it to anything modern.

XP with sp3 is still getting security updates and will until April of 2014.

About 10 days ago I put a computer back online that had been offline since Feb 2012. The were a total of 26 updates downloaded during the first 4 hours the computer was online.

 

[NYBo]

Re: Hotmail and Outlook Express.

In WLM, can you open an attached picture with Windows Fax and Picture Viewer? Also if you have the program open (but minimized), do you get a little email notification in the startup tray? I did read that WLM for WinXp is really just a re-skinned OE but without some of it's features like separate identities and something related to no HTML setting, which I do not understand anyway.

Yes, you get new e-mail notifications in the system tray icon with WLM. I can't comment on the version for Windows XP.

 

[dingbat]

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WLM is a fit, form and function replacement for Outlook Express, better IMHO. I run WLM on my wife's computor running Visa. No problems with XP SP3 either.