I have several Hotmail accounts I use to segregate mail I receive from a bunch of different Yahoo groups. It is easy to use Outlook Express to pull the mail from Hotmail. Unfortunately, I got this:
No biggie, I think. But the catch is that Live Mail requires XP, and I am only running 2000. Is there a workaround?
*Would it be helpful if I mentioned that I don’t know what any of this is?
No idea about the Win2k situation but I switched from the full version of Outlook to Windows Live Mail and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Live Mail seems like a pretty good app.
You’re running XP? Like I said, it wasn’t too big a deal to me, until I found I couldn’t do it with 2000. Maybe my computer recycler guy can get me a deal on XP.
Yup, XP Pro.
I’m just planning on abandoning my two Hotmail accounts.
Gmail is better anyway.
I did that a long, long time ago. I still look into my Hotmail accounts occasionally to check if there’s anything important, but I’ve been much, much happier with GMail. Oh, and did I mention POP3 and IMAP support? And far, far snappier performance than Hotmail? It may look a little less slick, but I think it’s actually much less cluttered and more elegant.
Vive la GMail!
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I have maybe 30 hotmail accounts collecting email from an even larger number of interest groups. I really need an easy fix for this.
Anyone? Please?
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I’m running Vista and want to access with regular Office (not Express). Does this apply to me, as well?
You might take a look at Thunderbird.
I can’t vouch for it as it is years since I used it but it was good then.
Only use webmail now.
:smack: I shoulda known there would be discussion there. :smack: Bad Oslo! Sit in corner!
Do you run a recent version of Office? I have Outlook 2003, and Outlook Connector works pretty well to download Hotmail to a local client.