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Comment from jiohn sutton on 2011-12-01

2011-12-01T14:30:51Z

how do I forward my e-mail address to receive on my mobile without loging in my mobile
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Comment from Alberto C. Downing on 2011-11-09

2011-11-10T05:44:24Z

Leo,

I have several Hotmail accts. and one Live acct. I had all 3 Hotmail accts. forwarded to my Live acct. and everything worked fine, until one day, one of my Hotmail accounts just stopped fwding. The other two Hotmail accts. continue to work fine. With the one that doesn't, I removed the FWD to my Live acct. and in it's place set it up to FWD to my Gmail, and it worked fine. Switched it back to my Live... NOTHING! I'am desperate, can you help by shedding some light? :-(
Much obliged!

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Comment from saiful on 2010-12-19

2010-12-19T15:30:37Z

i cannot open to yahoomail
what the problem my ID and password pls help me

Unfortunately I cannot help you without a LOT more information - like what happens when you try, what error messages you get, and do on. Please gather that information and use the ask a question page.

19-Dec-2010

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Comment from narumanchianji on 2010-10-01

2010-10-01T13:53:19Z

i came across this page while searching in google, but could not forward to my gmail address because you have not provided to email this page which could have been very helpful for future reference, can you atleast forward atleast this page to my gmail address [email address removed]@gmail.com?

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Comment from Wendy on 2010-08-29

2010-08-29T21:18:30Z

I have been trying for several days to forward hotmail to my mobile phone as i have done for two years now, what can i do???

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Comment from Angel on 2010-07-29

2010-07-29T21:37:02Z

I have already tried going to options, more options but it does not give me the forward your emails to another account option, only link...I am unable to access my messages in my live.com account which is why i would like to forward any new messages to my new accoutnt...can you suggest anything else.

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Comment from Angelo on 2010-07-24

2010-07-24T08:30:35Z

hi, I have used the email forward for a couple of years with great success but all of a sudden in the last couple of days it has just stopped working? I deleted and added the forward again and it doesnt work anymore.. can anyone provide any assistance in how to fix this.. cheers

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Comment from Stephen on 2010-07-22

2010-07-22T18:15:08Z

I went into the SMS settings and put in my mobile number but it told me to chose a country. Ireland isn't on the dropdown menu. I am screwed? Can I never do this type of forwarding then?

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Comment from narayanasamy on 2010-07-20

2010-07-21T06:54:53Z

Hello sir,
Really the topic "How do I auomatically forward my windows live hotmail mail " is very interesting and useful,not only for me but for all.Thank you very much. I do hope that Mr.leo will forward such kind of useful information.

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Comment from Francis J Golden on 2010-07-20

2010-07-20T19:05:29Z

Leo, after reading and re-reading this post I noticed that you omitted some important info.
After entering your mobile number as shown you need to click Windows Live Options>sms settings to complete the steps reported by rangerX and Scott.
That info is missing.
I managed to figure it out but it would have been helpful if that info were present in the first place.

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Comment from yaron on 2010-07-14

2010-07-14T12:33:49Z

It supports only forwarding to live or hotmail addresses although they wrote youraddress@yourdomain.com.

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Comment from Scott on 2010-07-13

2010-07-13T14:52:59Z

Oh yes, you need to make sure that at the last screen of the SMS wizard, you have check the box to receive Hotmail alerts and Save, or the referenced forwarding option is not available. You will only actually receive SMS alerts if you go a step further and tell Hotmail what alerts you want to receive, so don't worry about your phone blowing up with texts from MS.

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Comment from Scott on 2010-07-13

2010-07-13T14:49:39Z

Leo, you may want to update your article with Ranger's method of getting the non-MS domain forwarding working. My Hotmail account had the feature, but my girlfriend, who switched to an Android phone and needed this feature to get her Hotmail on her phone, didn't. Added her cell phone under the SMS section of Live, and waddya know, we can now forward to her Gmail.

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Comment from Gerry on 2010-06-28

2010-06-28T19:17:33Z

Hey, Leo. Is this forwarding departure still available in a current version of Windows Live. I can not find this in the options.

I still see it in Options, More Options under Manage Account.

29-Jun-2010

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Comment from Emme Smith on 2010-06-08

2010-06-08T14:16:53Z

My email is forwarded to my aol account, however I don't want it to be anymore. The option of forwarding mail, under account settings and customize mail isn't there anymore. How can I disable the mail forwarding?

I show it under Options, More Options, Manage Your Account

09-Jun-2010

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Comment from Tom on 2010-06-07

2010-06-07T16:29:33Z

I have an hotmail.com account. I recently "updatead" to a live.com account. I requested that my hotmail stuff be forwarded on to my live account. The message says that mail will now be forwarded. I did not get the confirmation message that you mentioned to confirm my new account. Also I have not yet received any forwarded messages. Should I redo the procedure or wait to see what tomorrow brings?

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Comment from Brandon on 2010-03-26

2010-03-26T16:30:55Z

When I try to do this it's saying "You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again."

Even if I'm using a custom domain, still no dice.

Thoughts?

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Comment from Andrew on 2010-03-26

2010-03-26T08:52:11Z

MSN mail can only be forwarded to another MSN account; typical Microsoft, scared of competition from better networks! How bloody annoying.

Craven, monopoly-desiring jerks!

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Comment from prayad on 2010-03-24

2010-03-24T10:44:58Z

why I don't have option-Keep a copy of forwarded messages in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox.

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Comment from shari on 2010-02-20

2010-02-20T19:16:12Z

How do you know if your old email account was cancelled?...I sent an email to that address and expect some sort of bounce back or notice this is not a valid email but nothing any idea?

You don't. A canceled account does not guarantee that a bounce will be generated.

21-Feb-2010

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Comment from junkkilit on 2009-12-12

2009-12-13T01:30:26Z

Leo,

I performed the steps from your article about removing the Hotmail forwarding restriction to only @hotmail, @msn, and @live accounts. However, when I returned to the forwarding option, the restriction were still there. After successfully running through your steps, from the Hotmail screen, I selected, Options -> More Options -> Forward mail to another e-mail account. I entered my email address and got the same error message before setting up SMS. Error message: You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again. Could you tell me if I did something wrong. Thanks for your help.
div class="leocomment">Those weren't my instructions, they were provided by another reader commenting on this article. I still have no information on how to make it work, or why it works for some and not others.

14-Dec-2009

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Comment from Tomino on 2009-12-08

2009-12-08T12:21:50Z

Hotmail now supports forward to gmail adresses! Got it working aas described as above!!!

It def. works!

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Comment from Ed on 2009-12-07

2009-12-07T20:54:23Z

Many thankls for this tip Ranger. How on earth did you discover it?

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Comment from RangerX on 2009-11-14

2009-11-15T07:06:25Z

To those of you looking to remove the Hotmail forwarding restriction to only @hotmail, @msn, and @live accounts and enable the ability to keep the emails in your inbox... there is a easy way to do this. I'll give the highlights, you can work out the details. Logon to Hotmail. At the top select More, Mobile. Activate SMS by entering your text capbable cell phone number into the provided field and click next. On next page validate your phone number and click next. Wait for the text message on your phone and enter the PIN number from the text message into the validate field and click next. On next screen under Hotmail, Messenger, and Other Alerts press the Start button (second column on the page). On next page agree to terms and conditions on the page. On next page press Hotmail Settings button. On next page press Setup button. Select None to not actually send any SMS message (or another option if you prefer) then save. You will now have ability to forward to any email account and the option to keep messages in your inbox.

IMHO, Hotmail gets a bad rap... but they have come a long way in the last months. Microsoft has become the evil giant... just as IBM was in the late 1980s (and as Google will be in 15 years). Free POP, free forwarding, free 25GB file storage, minimal ads (compared to Yahoo's new interface), clean interface for basic emailing, etc. I'm not interested in technology holy wars... life's to short. I've use gmail, yahoo, and hotmail and each have pros and cons. Let's all be happy there are choices and we can select the one that meets our own personal needs best.

I hope this helps you out. Good luck. RangerX

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Comment from Shane on 2009-10-31

2009-11-01T01:15:43Z

Does anyone know how to forward the windows live mail to an AOL account?

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Comment from chi on 2009-10-15

2009-10-15T14:58:34Z

Hotmail allows me to forward to my Gmail per your instructions (thanks). However, when I tried to set up my wife's account, it's returning:

"You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again."

Any advise? Did they shut down the forwarding option?

If you read through the comments on this article you'll see that it apparently doesn't work for everyone, and wde don't know why.

16-Oct-2009

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Comment from !VIM! on 2009-10-09

2009-10-09T09:08:38Z

Our man Leo has sorted forwarding to google mail. Nice Job! It is not a forward but has the same effect. I have been playing around trying to get my wife's hotmail forwarding (which using the hotmail forwarding page, would not forward. Where my hotmail account which is the same account and free easily forwards). I did have a premium account years ago with a POP3 link and cancelled it after 1 year (2006 I cancelled it.

See below: I GOT IT TO WORK!!, ok.....
In Gmail: go to Settings>Get mail from other accounts>add a mail account you own
- Enter your hotmail address (my address ends with msn.com)
- for the pop server enter: pop3.live.com
- the port is 995
- tick mark "always use secure ssl when retrieving mail"

that's all i did to get it to work, though it does seem that gmail will try to pull your mail every minute, hotmail from what i gather only lets it sign in like this every 15 mins, so at the most your new mail might be 15 mins old, I don't consider this a big deal

--update--
the 15 min lag is true, gmail will try to pull every min, but hotmail will only allow every 15, I'm just glad to have my mail forwarded, so it doesn't bother me much

take care

Technically that's not a forward, but yes, since Windows Live Hotmail added POP3 support you are now able to remotely retrieve it as you describe.
- Leo
16-Apr-2009

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Comment from Dominic on 2009-10-06

2009-10-06T20:55:37Z

I'm having a problem with the feature in that I was able to set up email forwarding a while back, but wish to stop the service now. When I log onto my Hotmail account, I'm told to go to my options in order to turn email forwardig off. However, the link on the options page to moderate email forwarding is not there any longer. I have loaded the page on numerous browsers, but am still unsuccessful in accessing the page to moderate the email forwarding features of Hotmail.

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Comment from jodie lyman on 2009-07-05

2009-07-05T15:21:48Z

It seems as though Hotmail has removed the option to keep a copy of the forwarded messages in the original inbox? Is there another way to keep these messages?

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Comment from Lynn Marshall on 2009-06-15

2009-06-15T21:18:50Z

Thanks so much for the wonderful comments and suggestions. I have been so aggravated with Windows and their 'hijacking' of my computer settings with every update, and now with a lack of access to Hotmail and no tech service, I got a Gmail account. I followed Leo's advice on forwarding my e-mail to my gmail account only to have Microsoft once again play the monopoly game of only being able to send it to a msn, live or hotmail account (boo hiss!), I am insanely grateful to Milodog who has helped me dodge the bullet with Windows Live Mail and can NOW finally log on to Gmail and get my important mail from home - and NOT fight to access Hotmail. Thanks so much for your help guys!

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Comment from Jay on 2009-05-16

2009-05-16T14:00:44Z

Leo,
I have hotmail, and outlook. Now I have a business email on a company server. I want to forward with filter rules to that email. The outlook send/recieve option is grayed out for rules. Can someone advise on how to get some of my messages forwarding to business account. sorry if this is a repeat but I can't find my first comment

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Comment from jay on 2009-05-13

2009-05-14T04:28:13Z

I have hotmail free version, and outlook. I need to forward messages based on rules to my work account. Outlook rules are not available since its hotmail.
What are my options, is there something I can turn on ?

No. Not that I'm aware of. Hotmail does not have filters/rules.

- Leo
14-May-2009

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Comment from Nic (again) on 2009-05-08

2009-05-08T11:37:58Z

Alright. i finally figured it out. It turns out that some of the options are hidden in certain browsers and not others (the choice seems to not be very...defined...it also seems to change). I managed to get access to the 'normal' interface (instead of the 'light' one) for the mail account so I could set it to forward to Gmail.

So, here is a guide of you are someone who can't seem to find the options listed in the above article:
1. Try the outlook page in any browser you can find. If you can try the latest IE. If you are lucky, you may find a browser that is compatible. (You will be able to tell by the completely different color scheme/layout)
2. create a contact that is your target email address.
3. go to the options menu and choose set up inbox rules.
4. Set up an inbox 'rule' to say that all mail should be forwarded to the contact defined in step2.
5. Send a test email.. if it doesn't work check you settings.
6. If it still doesn't work, or you can;t find the option I am talking about try another web browser.

I had to use Firefox 3.0.8 to get to the 'full' page (IE6 didn't work for some reason?). Strangely, it didn't work in IE or Chrome...but it had no problem with Firefox....now it seems to work in all but Chrome. So IE first didn't work, then was too lasy to work...and now it works again.
I have give up on trying to work out what happened there.

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Comment from Nic on 2009-05-06

2009-05-06T07:56:49Z

Update:
I tried to get the account to work...I didn't succeed

After I tried to get it to work through your method, I then changed my tactic and decided that I would try and find the options myself.

I Googled for windows live, find my profile, sign in (again for some reason), search through the help file (that is different to the email one for some reason), hit my head against the table when I got a "The page cannot be found", sigh loudly before hitting back and trying again, attempt to link my Gmail account through Windows Live, hit head when the attempt does nothing, wish that my Uni had linked with Google instead (at least they give you the option...and it's so easily to find, it took me less than a minute to find it), threaten Microsoft when i realize that I needed a premium account to get forwarding to work, give up and set Gmail to grab the emails every so often, find out that the *** Live account doesn't want to work.

Now what do I do?

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Comment from Nic on 2009-05-06

2009-05-06T07:35:24Z

I recently got a Windows Live email as part of a university thing to replace my old Uni email account (that worked fine, btw. Forwarding and all).

The problem is that I want to forward all of my emails to my Gmail account (Mainly just because it works quicker than the Live account, but also because I already have everything else running from that account).

I had a look at the method you provided...but it seems that the Gui has been changed and some options removed. There is no menu when you click on options, instead it goes to another page which has a few different options, but none for forwarding emails. I checked out the help site on Microsoft as well as a guide on my uni's homepage. Both were completely useless. Neither actually gave any information about where to locate the option. So I'm stuck.

What should i do?

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Comment from Milodog on 2009-04-15

2009-04-15T16:06:07Z

I GOT IT TO WORK!!, ok.....
In Gmail: go to Settings>Get mail from other accounts>add a mail account you own
- Enter your hotmail address (my address ends with msn.com)
- for the pop server enter: pop3.live.com
- the port is 995
- tick mark "always use secure ssl when retrieving mail"

--update--
the 15 min lag is true, gmail will try to pull every min, but hotmail will only allow every 15, I'm just glad to have my mail forwarded, so it doesn't bother me much

take care

Technically that's not a forward, but yes, since Windows Live Hotmail added POP3 support you are now able to remotely retrieve it as you describe.

- Leo
16-Apr-2009

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Comment from rq on 2009-03-19

2009-03-20T06:49:18Z

Guys, you need to set up a mobile number to get it to work.
I tried and there, it appears.

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Comment from Roger on 2009-03-03

2009-03-03T11:48:33Z

Despite Leo's response to Bob's comment (8 Nov 2008), it seems that now you CAN'T forward Hotmail to a non-Microsoft webmail address. Nor is there now the option to keep copies of forwarded emails. Hotmail has got so flaky, but Microsoft doesn't make it easy to get away from them. There are 3rd party tools out there (google "forwarding hotmail"). Leo, can you recommend any, or a workaround?

1) Forwarding to a non-MS address continues to work for me.

2) The best work around is not to use Hotmail. GMail is more fully featured if you must use a free service, or get a "real" email account from a provider with support.

- Leo
03-Mar-2009

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Comment from Richard on 2009-02-15

2009-02-15T19:08:16Z

Phil, You must read the Atlantic Monthly Article by Nicholas Carr entitled: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" While Google has come cute tools and gadgets, I prefer the thinking man's operating system, and to maintain my IQ.

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Comment from Phil on 2009-02-13

2009-02-13T16:55:22Z

This is why Microsoft are last in the email/search race behind Google & Yahoo. I will reiterate what many have said before me: the only reason people even use Live, is because it is default when you purchase a new windows PC. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that I want to say cuss words which would likely get this comment moderated. Hooray for Google who continue to offer fully functioning applications without asking you to pay into their pockets. They really deserve the top spot. I can't wait for Windows to be squashed by some competant challenger.

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Comment from lexow grant on 2008-11-22

2008-11-22T22:22:53Z

below is a cut and paste from my old free hotmail account

Forwarding
You can forward your mail to one other e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com, or is part of Windows Live Custom Domains.

Important note: Please sign in at least once every 120 days so that your account doesn't get deleted. (In order to help fight junk, we delete inactive accounts.)
Don't forward
Forward your mail to another e-mail account
Where do you want your messages to be sent?

Example: username@domain.com

Note: Forwarded messages are deleted from this account

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Comment from Bob on 2008-11-08

2008-11-08T10:05:11Z

The answer is simple.

To be able to forward your email to non Microsoft addresses you need to upgrade to windows live hotmail PLUS and for that you have to pay about usd 30 per year. If you have basic hotmail, you can only forward your emails to MS addresses. Of course they don't tell you this in the help notes, I had to work it our for myself.

Your answer is incorrect.

While upgrading to a plus account may include the ability to forward, it is certainly not the only way. My free Hotmail account is forwarding to my own domain, and has been since they added the feature.

The rules of who can and who cannot forward are obviously not clear and very frustrating.

- Leo
08-Nov-2008

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Comment from Nigel on 2008-07-15

2008-07-15T21:07:53Z

The reason some accounts work and some don't is because the older hotmail accounts still support pop3 i think. MSN got rid of pop3 support a while ago to stop spam from hotmail accounts (at least this is what I have read elsewhere).

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-06

2008-07-06T18:47:04Z

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As I've commented on this article a few times: I don't know.
All I can say is that it works for me and many others, and
fails for many as well. I have not yet been able to
determine the pattern or reason for the failures when they
happen.

Leo

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Comment from Don Hester on 2008-07-05

2008-07-05T20:56:04Z

Leo, I have attempted to forward my email from (UserName-edited)@hotmail.com to Don@(DomainName- edited).com, but when I try, I get the following error from Hotmail. "You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again." So, what is the deal? Why can't I forward me hotmail?

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Comment from SuPA on 2008-05-21

2008-05-21T21:55:39Z

ya big bummer that i cannot access my hotmail from the iphone properly... sick of this... it says you can forward to custom domain!!! I have my own domain and it still doesn;t work.. I don;t know what they mean by "custom domain" how lame!!! Microsoft BETTER work on getting my mail to my iphone as soon as the new 2.0 firmware comes out or I will leave hotmail SO fast!
sick of hotmail.

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Comment from Michael on 2008-04-23

2008-04-23T20:49:03Z

I wanted to forward my hotmail to gmail which would forward it to my phone via Text Message SMS.

I found this article very useful! Send all your email to your phone in SMS format:

http://www.bestdamntech.com/text-message-email-notification-with-gmail-filters/

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-04-08

2008-04-08T22:45:58Z

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"if this only works to other microsoft addresses" then yes,
I WOULD change the article. As I've mentioned a few times,
there ARE people who can forward to non MS addresses. Like
me ... my hotmail account is forwarding to my (very)
non-Microsoft email address without complaint.

I've not yet identified why it works for some and not for
others.

Leo

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Comment from Vik on 2008-04-07

2008-04-07T21:32:10Z

if this only works to other microsoft addresses, shouldn't you change that in the article, as most people are trying to forward their emails to other domains?

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Comment from brenda black on 2008-03-21

2008-03-22T05:01:30Z

I also cannot forward my mail either. Live.com states you have to have sp2 to install live mail service. I do not like sp2. It really messes with my programs. I guess there is no work around this. Not fair or right. If I could just download my mail from live.com to my outlook express I would be happy. What a crock.

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Comment from Jonathan Gray on 2008-03-11

2008-03-11T15:30:50Z

This has never worked and I have been trying it using various hacks for years. I thought they finallly did it right but I get this message:

"You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again."

Can someone tell me why anyone would or should ever forward to another MS account? If you did want to do that wouldn't it be done automatically once you signed up. (unless you specifically chose not too.) So, is this feature--that is really a bug--simply designed to anger people? It certainly has had that effect on me.

Note to ms: It is not 1980 and you are not GM. Crappy product and crappy service doesn't cut it anymore even if it is free.

Quoth this user, "Nevermore."

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Comment from warchild on 2008-02-21

2008-02-21T22:01:11Z

they have changed t his feature.

Forward your e-mail to another address

You can forward e-mail that's sent to your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox or custom folder to another hotmail.com, MSN.com, Live.com, or Windows Live Admin Center e-mail address.

So basically, you can not forward it to anything outside of the hotmail/msn/microsoft universe, it will not accept any of the e-mail adress I put into it.

thanks

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Comment from mobidutch on 2008-01-29

2008-01-29T18:03:10Z

In reaction to John Roberson's post:

You have successfullyt enabled forward from live.com->hotmail.com->personal domain email box?

I tried that as well (Hotmail account is paid). Mail sent directly to hotmail.com still forwards nicely to my personal domain email box as it did before, but mail sent to live.com simply disappears!

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Comment from dice on 2008-01-16

2008-01-16T18:59:21Z

I must say this is an interesting article. I must have been one of the first few who has been able to enable this to forward from my @hotmail address to my @gmail.com address. I do not pay for hotmail, I have the free account- I did upgrade it to the live mail and I was able to also link my @live.com address to my @hotmail address. I also had the ability to forward all my @live mail to my @hotmail and that all forwards no problem to my @gmail address.

I have tried with a few other test accounts to do this same scenario. I have been unable to find a way around the @msn, @live, @hotmail only addresses that they have locked forwarding for.

I hope msn fixes this...

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Comment from Laura on 2008-01-10

2008-01-10T16:52:49Z

I haven't had any success with this either. Has anyone else tried it from the other end? Gmail has a "forward from" feature which is suppose to include hotmail. I can't get it to work. I even tried changing the populated server to pop3.live.com and changing the port to 995 (because that's MSN's directions for Outlook) and various combinations but nothing worked. Has anyone had any success from that angle?

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Comment from Bill Farmer on 2007-12-17

2007-12-18T04:56:06Z

Maybe this will help some - it appears that most gmail accounts that have a dot in them can receive mail without the dot. For instance, an email might be first.last@gmail.com and it will send and receive as firstlast@gmail.com just as well.
- Bill

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-12-07

2007-12-07T22:19:45Z

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NOT true. My Hotmail account is a free one, and I'm forwarding to an arbitrary
email address.

Leo

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Comment from Henry on 2007-12-06

2007-12-06T18:16:19Z

The answer to your question is simple.
If you are using a free acount, then it will only forward to those three accountsd listed.
If you're a paid customer then it will forward to any account.
Quite an incentive what?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-30

2007-10-30T21:16:16Z

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Nope, I've got the same free version of MSN Hotmail (err... Windows Live
Hotmail) that most people do.

I don't yet see a pattern as to why it works for me and some others, and not
for everyone. But then, Hotmail's been very inconsistant at times when rolling
out new features.

Leo

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Comment from Dan Ports on 2007-10-30

2007-10-30T16:49:59Z

@Leo: Do you use one of the Hotmail paid packages? My experience is the same as that of Michael and HobbesPDX.

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T21:07:20Z

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That's simply not true for everyone.

My hotmail mail is forwarded to an email alias on a completely random domain
not registered with or associated with Windows Live. And it works just fine.

I don't know what the rules are yet, but it most definitely works as expected
and described for many people.

Leo

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Comment from HobbesPDX on 2007-10-15

2007-10-16T06:10:17Z

They are only allowing Forwarding to "custom domains" (already registered w/ Live) -- otherwise, the forwarding address MUST be @msn.com, @hotmail.com, or @live.com

BUMMER

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-10-07

2007-10-07T23:26:05Z

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I still see it, and my mail is still being forwarded - to a NON-Hotmail address.

Perhaps it's not available on all the Windows Live Hotmail servers yet.

I will say that the forwarding - particularly to a GMail account which I tried
yesterday, was painfully slow.

Leo

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Comment from Shailen Sobhee on 2007-10-05

2007-10-06T03:23:20Z

This system doesnt work anymore. Firstly the tick to store forwarded messages has been scrapped off Windows live. Besides, you can only forward to another hotmail live account (msn, hotmail etc..) :(

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