Hotmail premium advertises storing messages locally via outlook bu

[Guest]

I've subscribed to hotmail premium primarily because of this feature (quoting
from the microsoft feature descriptions:

"Access MSN Hotmail with Microsoft Office Outlook® or Outlook Express.
Download and store MSN Hotmail messages on your PC. Read and compose messages
when you're not online."

This is the reason I paid the subscription fee...but hotmail behaves the
same way it always has with outlook...you can read mail while online but
there appears to be no automated functionality for saving (synching) your
inbox locally (my university account has the option to leave messages on the
server for a period of time, and it works great, but hotmail has no such
option that I can find).

I am not always connected to the 'net and sometimes (like this weekend) I
need to check old emails with flight information or confirmation numbers when
I'm not connected. No problem with my university acct, but unless I've copied
it to onenote or something I'm SOL if the message came to my hotmail premium
acct.

Am I missing something or is it okay to fly into a rage because MS has
falsely advertised a feature?

Thanks,

-mark

 

[Guest]

You are missing the fact that you must set up a Hotmail acct in Outlook or OE
to retrieve the mail to save it in OL or OE. You can't save it on your
computer by using your browser.

 

[Guest]

Nope, didn't miss that. I have the hotmail account set up in outlook 2003.
The problem is that, as far as I can tell, outlook only downloads the headers
for your inbox then reconnects to the web if you select a message to read.
When offline you can see all the headers for your inbox, but you cannot
access the content without connecting to the net. The problem being...that if
you're not connected to the web you can't read anything but the header when
you go back to an old email.