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to: John Beckett
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-12-26 07:50:40
subject: Re: Windows Mail in Windows Vista

From: "Robert Comer" 

> So Windows Live Mail Desktop will access Hotmail.

Yep.

> Do you know if it will export to Outlook (or if Outlook can import)?
> (I mean Microsoft Office Outlook, not Outlook Express.)
>
> I guess "no" because they need ads to pay for the service.

Yep, it will actually.

> I am in the habit of using Outlook Express to download mail from a Hotmail
> account. Then I import stuff I want to keep into Office Outlook.

It's doable.

> However, the ability for Outlook Express to access Hotmail seems to have
> disappeared from my home system (it worked before; now I get a
> "temporarily moved" error). But it still works on a system at work.
> Strange.

Try accessing the hotmail a second time shortly after the first try and it
works for me.

--
Bob Comer


"John Beckett"  wrote in message
news:ads1p2t9u07oc4rdbcqrpgcogfp48u6n88{at}4ax.com...
> "Rich"  wrote in message news::
>>  I only know of one removed feature, the always beta access to Hotmail
>> via
>> DAV.  If you want this use Windows Live Mail Desktop which is in beta.
>> You can find it at
>> http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionid=6ac2bed2-b5a4-4a0a-a897-e36
dd191a9f4.
>
> Thanks for link.
>
> So Windows Live Mail Desktop will access Hotmail.
> Do you know if it will export to Outlook (or if Outlook can import)?
> (I mean Microsoft Office Outlook, not Outlook Express.)
>
> I guess "no" because they need ads to pay for the service.
>
> I am in the habit of using Outlook Express to download mail from a Hotmail
> account. Then I import stuff I want to keep into Office Outlook.
>
> However, the ability for Outlook Express to access Hotmail seems to have
> disappeared from my home system (it worked before; now I get a
> "temporarily moved" error). But it still works on a system at work.
> Strange.
>
> John
>

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