How do I access Hotmail using Outlook Express?

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I would push people reading this article towards alternative number 3. I have had more computer service jobs from people using outlook getting a hazardous email from one of their trusted friends, opening it, infecting their computer, infecting everyone else on their contacts list. Outlook Express has been outdone, outclassed, and outprotected by many other competitors programs for several years now. Thunderbird is a good, very easy(compared to outlook) program to use. It's IExplorer alternative, Firefox is also an alternative I'd recommend to any novice-intermediate computer user.

Another alternative that is similar to #1: for a low fee register a domain with mail services and have your own email address. So long as it supports POP3/IMAP, you can use whatever email program you want to look at your mail.

I have used Office Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird 2 for the last 3 months to download my webmail. While Thunderbird is faster and more stable, Outlook is more powerful and convenient. For example, a simple thing such as making the "Sent" folder to always display only recipients AND "Inbox" to always display only senders was not possible in Thunderbird. It does not allow folder-specific view settings. In Outlook we can have folder-wise customized view.

Haha, that email (at the beginning of this article) is a question that I had sent to Leo a while back. I will say that, since sending that message to Leo, I have been using "Windows Live Mail" and I now love it. I am paying the $20 per year subscription, so that may help. Anyway, Windows Live Mail is now the way to go in my opinion.

I have always used Incredimail, its free, easy to use and has everything of outlook and more.Plus you can add as many email accounts as you want to it and they all come through to the same place!

I have been using Thunderbird with the WebMail add-on for a while, configured to use Hotmail and Yahoo and it works well. I would suggest a switch from O. E.

I, like 'Fairycake', use Incredimail and many of my contacts now use it for it's great animations etc. Everyone should use it

Incredimail can get into my Hotmail account!

Incredimail has been my saving many times over it receives Hotmail with no trouble at all . a great ISP have used it now for four years and never any trouble .

9-17-08

On June 17, 2008, I received the below email
in my hotmail account from Microsoft. I am
still able to access my hotmail account through
OE6 without a fee.

Dear Microsoft Outlook Express customer,

You may have received an e-mail from us letting you know that Microsoft is planning to retire the DAV protocol that Outlook Express uses to access Windows Live Hotmail. In response to customer feedback requesting more time to evaluate alternative solutions, we have decided to postpone retiring DAV and we are investigating other alternatives for accessing Windows Live Hotmail via Outlook Express. This means that if you use Outlook Express to access your Windows Live Hotmail account, you will continue to be able to do so beyond the previously announced June 30 transition deadline. We will be sure to update you once we have additional plans to share and early enough in advance to help ensure a smooth transition in the future.

Additionally, Outlook Express customers that use Windows Vista or Windows XP are always welcome to download and use our next generation free email client, Windows Live Mail, providing the familiarity of Outlook Express and much more. You can download the new client at http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview.

We appreciate your feedback, and encourage you to continue to provide it.

Sincerely,

Windows Live Mail Team

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