Outlook auto pulldown from Hotmail Inbox

[Guest]

I have Outlook 2003 and Hotmail Plus. Why does one have to manually
send/receive then drag mail from Hotmail inbox to Outlook. Why not copy Yahoo
and other POP 3 mail features whereby the mail is automatically dropped into
Outlook's Inbox.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Hotmail is http mail and Outlook uses the .pst format for mail. The 2 are
incompatible. You need to drag/drop email from Hotmail to Outlook's file.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Stephen S asked:

| I have Outlook 2003 and Hotmail Plus. Why does one have to manually
| send/receive then drag mail from Hotmail inbox to Outlook. Why not
| copy Yahoo and other POP 3 mail features whereby the mail is
| automatically dropped into Outlook's Inbox.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Milly. I know this from Microsoft Knowledgebase etc but can't
understand why both applications, being Microsoft products, would not act
better together. I've been using Hotmail as my sole account for over 5 years
and I wish it would behave better with Outlook. Maybe you as a MVP would have
some connections.