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Title: Hotmail issues
Post by: Martin_1962 on 01 September 2009, 18:12:21

We have a few hotmail accounts, basically stuff I cannot transfer easily.

Outlook express is now broken.

Any idea what I can do to access them?

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Debs. on 01 September 2009, 18:18:26

Would it not be possible to access the hotmail messages via the new form of "Windows Live Messenger" using your previous hotmail login and pass.?

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Martin_1962 on 01 September 2009, 18:26:52

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Would it not be possible to access the hotmail messages via the new form of "Windows Live Messenger" using your previous hotmail login and pass.?

Is it an offline email client?

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: nick v6 on 01 September 2009, 18:28:04

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We have a few hotmail accounts, basically stuff I cannot transfer easily.

Outlook express is now broken.

Any idea what I can do to access them?

goto msn.com and you can access the mail there

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Welung666 on 01 September 2009, 18:29:28

Errrrr..... http://www.hotmail.com (http://www.hotmail.com)    :-? ::) ;D

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Debs. on 01 September 2009, 18:31:25

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Would it not be possible to access the hotmail messages via the new form of "Windows Live Messenger" using your previous hotmail login and pass.?

Is it an offline email client?

No Martin, is an online 'thing'......

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Welung666 on 01 September 2009, 18:35:52

I didn't realise you wanted offline capabilities... Have a read HERE (http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!43091.entry) :y

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Martin_1962 on 01 September 2009, 18:56:39

online hotmail is easy, but offline can be a PITA.

That software WLM I have seen before and uninstalled on a previous PC - thought it was quite ugly and clunky

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: TheBoy on 01 September 2009, 19:10:31

If you need proper POP3/IMAP/SMTP email, use a proper POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail service ;)

Dump the accounts and use GMail which does support pop3/imap/smtp (albeit on weird ports), and will work with your existing domain.

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 01 September 2009, 19:20:21

According to a web hosting site i use, Hotmail is the only email service they constantly have problems with trying to send emails from their email server.

I use yahoo.co.uk for one email account I have and never have problems with Outlook receiving and sending emails through it  :y

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: TheBoy on 01 September 2009, 19:25:09

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According to a web hosting site i use, Hotmail is the only email service they constantly have problems with trying to send emails from their email server.

I use yahoo.co.uk for one email account I have and never have problems with Outlook receiving and sending emails through it  :y

I struggle to send emails to Hotmail, despite having all the SPFs set up correctly - their spam filter seems to only allow spam through

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: tunnie on 01 September 2009, 20:17:17

why would anyone with a sane mind use hotmail? Its such a load of advert spammed, heavy cr@p

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: STMO999 on 01 September 2009, 20:47:45

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why would anyone with a sane mind use hotmail? Its such a load of advert spammed, heavy cr@p

Are you saying dear old Martin is insane then Tunnie? ;D

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: Martin_1962 on 01 September 2009, 20:56:33

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why would anyone with a sane mind use hotmail? Its such a load of advert spammed, heavy cr@p

What adverts?

And I set it up quite a few years ago when we were using ISDN and works internet account - bit naughty but I had free internet at the time

Title: Re: Hotmail issues
Post by: TheBoy on 01 September 2009, 21:09:16

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why would anyone with a sane mind use hotmail? Its such a load of advert spammed, heavy cr@p

What adverts?

And I set it up quite a few years ago when we were using ISDN and works internet account - bit naughty but I had free internet at the time

dump the email addresses, move on.