checking MS live email thru Outlook 2007

[CB]

I'm guessing here, but since I can check my gmail thru Outlook 2007, I'm
guessing that I should be able to do the same with live mail, but when I try
to set it up, it fails:

When it goes off for the "search for (e-mail address removed) server settings, it says
an encrypted session isn't possible, then tries unencrypted and that fails.

I've tried to manually set it up with no success. Any tricks to getting
this to work?

Thanks,
CB

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

do you have a paid live account? which acct type are you trying to
configure? have you installed the outlook connector?

 

[Don]

Hi CB.

TO my knowledge, POP access which you would most likely use for Outlook to
connect to Windows Live! is a paid service. In the past, users have
discovered how to access their Hotmail accounts using POP access for free,
however, that hole has since been fixed.

You should be able to pay a subscription or nominal fee to MSN to receive
such access, however, most people I have met seem to prefer web-based access.

Hope this helps!

 

[CB]

Didn't think it would be this complicated.

I used to use Outlook 2003 and that worked terribly with Vista. I had since
added a (e-mail address removed) account and ran windows live mail, but too many things
missing with it, so now I'm back to Outlook (2007 - though it has it share of
issues too).

So, just trying to add all my accounts that I had in Windows Live into
Outlook. So far, the only two I've yet to get to work are my Live account
and yahoo.

Not worth paying for, just something nice if it worked.

thanks,
CB

 

[Diane Poremsky {MVP}]

Did you have those two working in Outlook 2003?

Yahoo will not work with outlook unless you have a paid acct - free accounts
don't have pop3 access. Live needs the connector.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&displaylang=en

 

[CB]

No, didn't have either working until I used Windows Live mail. Guess that's
a plus for that option. I must have had some sort of connector as it worked.


Well, at least I know what the deal is.

thanks,
Chris

 

[N. Miller]

TO my knowledge, POP access which you would most likely use for Outlook to
connect to Windows Live! is a paid service. In the past, users have
discovered how to access their Hotmail accounts using POP access for free,
however, that hole has since been fixed.

Free MSN Hotmail accounts did not have POP3 access after some date in 1999,
or earlier. From the time that MSN killed POP3 access to free Hotmail
accounts and Sept. 26, 2004, or so, free MSN Hotmail accounts were
definitely accessible through the WebDAV HTTPMail protocol in MS Outlook
Express, and MS Outlook. That was not a "hole", but by design. It was cut
off to newly created MSN Hotmail accounts after Sept. 26, 2004 do to spammer
abuse, or so I am told.

With the change from MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail, came two access
changes:

1. POP3/SMTP access for Windows Live Hotmail Plus (paid) accounts.
2. Reinstatement of HTTPMail access for clients capable of using the new
DeltaSync protocol (Windows Live Mail, and Outlook Connector for MS Outlook
2003 and MS Outlook 2007).

You should be able to pay a subscription or nominal fee to MSN to receive
such access, however, most people I have met seem to prefer web-based access.

I have one free Windows Live Hotmail account, which I have kept active since
about 2002, which can still use MS Outlook Express through the WebDAV
protocol. This account was never a paid MSN account, or any other kind of
oddity, or grandfathered Hotmail POP3 account; just a common MSN Hotmail web
mail account which I configured in MS Outlook Express for the HTTPMail
(WebDAV) server. It is this access which will be terminated by Windows Live
after June 30, 2008.

After that cutoff date, MS Outlook Express is supposed to stop working with
the HTTPMail (WebDAV) protocol and the free Windows Live Hotmail accounts;
but those same free accounts should continue to work with Windows Live Mail,
and MS Outlook (both 2003 and 2007), where the Outlook Connector is
installed. WLM and OL connector will use the HTTPMail (DeltaSync) protocol.