Neh said:
Can someone please tell me how to get email alerts for my
hotmail inbox or direct all hotmail inbox messsages into
the personal folders inbox so that I can get email alerts?
Thank you.
All POP3 accounts have their inbound messages aggregated into one Inbox
(which is the message store you designated that will receive all new
[POP3] e-mails). Each HTTP account, like for Hotmail, gets its own
separate message store and why you see a separate tree showing the
folders for that separate message store.
Rules don't work on HTTP accounts, they only work for POP3 accounts, so
you cannot define a rule to move messages from your HTTP (Hotmail)
account into your [POP3 aggregate] Inbox. Rules won't move messages
across message stores, anyway.
Hotmail abandoned POP3 and SMTP servers something like over a year ago,
so you can't even pay for their premium service to get access to them
(unlike Yahoo Mail where their freebie accounts are access via HTTP and
their paid service gives you POP3/SMTP access). You could make Hotmail
look like a POP3 account so you could then get its e-mails put into the
aggregate Inbox used for POP3 accounts. This requires you run a local
HTTP-to-POP3 proxy which lets you define a POP3 account in Outlook that
points to the proxy which then makes teh HTTP/WebDAV connection to
Hotmail. Hotmail Popper is one such HTTP-to-POP3 proxy that is designed
for use with Hotmail. It used to be free but isn't any longer (and why
I dumped it). There are also online services that will yank your
e-mails from webmail providers, like Hotmail, and put them on their POP3
server so you can then use a POP3 account to yank them from there.
IzyMail is one of those.
