Summary: Windows Live Hotmail can be accessed using Outlook and Outlook Express.
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Update It's now possible to use any desktop email program, including both Outlook and Outlook Express, to access Windows Live Hotmail using POP3/SMTP support. Please read: What are Windows Live Hotmail's POP3 and SMTP settings? for the latest informaion. |
Can I use Microsoft Outlook 2003 to read and send mail using my Hotmail e-mail account? If I can, how do I set it up?
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Using Outlook Express with Hotmail was very, very handy. Notice I said "was". Those days are over.
Outlook, however, appears to still work.
For now.
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Microsoft is phasing out support for free Hotmail accounts in Outlook Express. In fact, they have a Knowledgebase article that explains the scenario: You receive an error message when you use Outlook Express to access your Hotmail account. The bottom line is in that article: "However, eventually Hotmail will no longer support DAV for all free Hotmail accounts." DAV is the mechanism that Outlook Express uses to connect to Hotmail.
They do, of course, let you know that you can continue to access your Hotmail account by upgrading to a paid MSN subscription. (You can do that here.)
I believe that Outlook (a part of Microsoft Office), falls into the same bucket. If you can access your Hotmail account with Outlook, I wouldn't expect it to last. Unless, of course, you upgrade to a paid MSN subscription.
Give it a try. In Outlook, hit the Tools menu, Email Accounts..., Add a new e-mail account. Select the HTTP account type and then fill in your Hotmail account information. That will set up a new set of folders into which your Hotmail mail will be delivered.
If it works ... consider your self lucky.
For now.
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Article C2442 - October 22, 2005
you can use a free hotmail account with outlook 2003 + easily with a simple download
Posted by: craig snelling at July 17, 2007 5:33 PMall you do it go to www.hotmail.com and click on signup for a new account then when the next page comes up click on learn more about the free account and you scroll down that page until you see outlook and you download the outlook connector once you have installed that you set up your account as normal and it will work straight away even with a free account which i did
My Outlook Express stopped working with my hotmail account. I sent MSN an email asking why after using OE for my hotmail for years has it stopped working. After following their recomendation, my OE works fine with my hotmail account. Here is their reply...The problem you have described occurs if the computer that you use to log on has installed Windows Internet Explorer version 7.0. To resolve this, please download and install the following file available from the Microsoft Download Center. You can get this for free by visiting:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1F9D33FF-7BFE-4336-9E65-972ED21324C4&displaylang=en
Posted by: Kennie at September 8, 2007 1:11 AMthere is a way if u have outlook (not express)and it's above 2000 then your in luck you can download The outlook connector from microsoft just type in goole download outlook connector and thats it install it when you go into outlook just type in your hotmail,gmail etc...... password and your done plus its FREE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: alex at December 28, 2007 7:46 AMWell they get greedy like many other email providers. It's a way of trapping somebody in paying for a service which they have given free previously. If you have an AOL/AIM account you can still set those up with OE. This type of greed makes most people's guilt regarding pirate software vansih.
Posted by: john at January 18, 2008 1:57 PMYou spend all that money on M$ Office 2007 and you can't even add your 'free' Hotmail account to M.$ Office Outlook Express.!
Posted by: WhiteVanMan at March 21, 2008 11:56 PMhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1F9D33FF-7BFE-4336-9E65-972ED21324C4&displaylang=en
Worked like a charm
Posted by: david b. at April 21, 2008 11:19 AMHow do you get (Windows Live Mail) it to look like how you have it set up in Outlook Express.
Posted by: Lime Barker at April 30, 2008 10:05 AMI can not get outlook express
Posted by: paul bickert at August 24, 2008 10:08 AMMy DSL ia now ATT which is my primary email server using Office 2000. I would like to add my msn email account into Office 2000. What must I do? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Posted by: Robert Brack at April 11, 2009 12:39 PMYou can still use outlook express this way to check hotmail, setup a "new " account in OE, when it asks for method - select pop server and put pop3.live.com and smtp.live.com, check off requires authentication and change the ports to 587 outgoing and 995 for incoming smtp, check off requires ssl. It will then check any hotmail account and dump the mail in your regualr inbox folder.
Posted by: Larry at September 2, 2009 10:36 AM