too many psts when setting up outlook 2003 for hotmail

[Guest]

I had 2003 configured with a single pst for my hotmail to come in and for my
archived folders. when i set it up now, it wants to configure a outlook
pst, another pst for my hotmail, and then my archive pst. no matter what i
do, i cannot get my hotmail to send to a single pst which is also my archived
folders.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

This is normal because your hotmail account can't support certain special
default folders that Outlook needs. (The same happens when working with
IMAP accounts)

 

[Guest]

from what i am reading elsewhere, i tend to agree with you BUT.......about 6
mths ago, i had my outlook 2003 confgd with a single PST which my email came
into it AND it was a single large pst file, located on my server. but since
i cannot get it to work that way, how can get my outlook to show a single pst
for incoming hotmai? then i can just open my other pst file as an archive
folder.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

As I said you can't. Hotmail is treated just like an IMAP account because
it can't support the special folder types Outlook needs to function. As for
the 6 month comment, I can fathom a guess that you where working with a POP3
or Microsoft Exchange account.