Getting Hotmail in Outlook 2003

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My friend can read his Hotmail in Outlook 2003 but he does work for MS too.
I also know people who can read Hotmail in Outlook in versions prior to 2003.
I have had my Hotmail addresses for a long time like 5-8 yrs for the ones I
use now and I can't read it in Outlook 2003 because it tells me I need to pay
for MSN plu or something like that, some sort of MSN thing I need to pay for.
I think this is bogus is there another way around it or do I need to try
with Outlook Express (YUCK!) or an older version of Outlook? What about a
newer version of Outlook with the Vista release?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Older Hotmail accounts were grandfathered in but you had to have it installed and active prior to Sept. 04. If you try to add it now, you cannot - you need to pay for Hotmail, just like Yahoo! mail and others that used to be free.

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After furious head scratching, Caesar asked:

| My friend can read his Hotmail in Outlook 2003 but he does work for
| MS too. I also know people who can read Hotmail in Outlook in
| versions prior to 2003. I have had my Hotmail addresses for a long
| time like 5-8 yrs for the ones I use now and I can't read it in
| Outlook 2003 because it tells me I need to pay for MSN plu or
| something like that, some sort of MSN thing I need to pay for. I
| think this is bogus is there another way around it or do I need to
| try with Outlook Express (YUCK!) or an older version of Outlook?
| What about a newer version of Outlook with the Vista release?

 

[Vanguard]

My friend can read his Hotmail in Outlook 2003 but he does work for
MS too.
I also know people who can read Hotmail in Outlook in versions prior
to 2003.
I have had my Hotmail addresses for a long time like 5-8 yrs for the
ones I
use now and I can't read it in Outlook 2003 because it tells me I
need to pay
for MSN plu or something like that, some sort of MSN thing I need to
pay for.
I think this is bogus is there another way around it or do I need to
try
with Outlook Express (YUCK!) or an older version of Outlook? What
about a
newer version of Outlook with the Vista release?

Did you let your Hotmail account idle for a long time? Maybe they
cancelled your account because it wasn't being used but then you
reactivated it before their expiration period (the account goes
inactive before it expires). Was YOUR account created *before*
November 2004 (about the time when Microsoft stopped WebDAV via HTTP
access to freeie Hotmail accounts)?