From: "Robert Comer" 

>       Hotmail DAV access in OE was always a beta feature.  It is limited
> to a subset of >accounts.

I disagree, it was released to the general public and at one time all email
accounts could be accessed that way, then only those that used it before
and premium accounts. (which is who can access it right now -- it hasn't
gone away with OE6.)

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Bob Comer


"Rich"  wrote in message news:459164df$1{at}w3.nls.net...
       Hotmail DAV access in OE was always a beta feature.  It is limited to
a subset of accounts.  I think it always was and was further restricted a
few years ago.  There is also a mechanism to access Hotmail accounts in
Outlook via the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector.  The latter is what I
use.  It too is limited to a subset of accounts.  I think it works for paid
accounts and free accounts linked to a paid one.

   WLMD I believe has the same export capabilities as Windows Mail which
includes export to Outlook.

   If you just want to archive messages, with Windows Mail and Windows Live
Mail Desktop you can just archive the EML and NWS files.  One of the
changes from OE is to persist the messages as individual files instead of
store the message bodies in a database.  I believe this was easier for
Windows Desktop Search.

Rich

  "John Beckett"  wrote in message
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  "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-e36dd1
91a9f4.

  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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