My hotmail account has become Outlook, because, well, Bill Gates wanted it to. Now, when I go to look at attachments I had previously had no problem viewing I cannot even find them. Is there a was to negate this “improvement?”
Yes. Get a gmail account.
If the “improvement” you want to negate is the switch to Outlook.com from Hotmail, I don’t think you can negate it. I believe that Microsoft is moving Hotmail accounts to Outlook.com with the goal of eliminating Hotmail.
And I just sent a couple of test messages from Gmail to my Outlook.com email address. Both had attachments and I had no problem seeing the attachments in the messages.
Before the switchover, these attachments were all ones I had looked at before. They have suddenly become locked, or disappeared, or something. I would prefer not to switch, simply because of the large number of people that use this particular address.
You can sign up for a gmail address and have it collect from outlook.com, plus you can also send as outlook.com from gmail as well.
First; ‘Outlook’ has many varities. You’re posting about outlook.com.
To prevent attachments from senders from being blocked:
• Set your filter to Show attachments, pictures, and links for senders with good reputations.
• Add the sender’s email on your safe senders.
To set your filter. please follow these steps:
- go to your inbox.
- Click Options located on the upper right and select More options.
- Under Preventing Junk Mail, click Filters and reporting.
- Look for Block content from unknown senders, click the button beside Show attachments, pictures, and links for senders with good reputations.
- Click Save.
To add a safe sender:
- go to your inbox
- Click Options located at the upper-right side of the page.
- Select More Options.
- Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders.
- Click Safe senders.
- Enter the email address or domain that you want to add in your safe senders list and click Add to list >>.
I have used Hotmail since the late 1990’s. I still have my first email address through them.
I am so disgusted with the new interface I am seriously considering shifting everything over to Gmail.
Gmail sucks pretty hard too.