Unread Hotmail invisible in Outlook Personal Folders

[D.A. Cluett]

I recently bought a copy of Office 2007, switching from Windows Live Mail
Desktop to Outlook 2007 as my main e-mail client. I used the client to check
my Hotmail account, which is my main e-mail account. I cannot check my office
e-mail with it as my company uses Microsoft Exchange Webmail.

One useful tool in WLMD was that the unread messages would be integrated
with the views, so I could click on the Unread e-mail Quick view and look at
a view of only the new or marked as unread messages.

Outlook 2007 does not show unread messages in my Hotmail account as a
separate view, or include the Hotmail unread messages in the Favorite Folders
Unread Mail views. Since this is my only account, these other folders are
pretty useless to me.

Am I missing some setting that allows Hotmail unread messages to be
integrated with the other mail folders in terms of the Unread listing? I have
the Outlook Connector as well as Business Contact Manager -- don't know if
that is useful, just providing information -- and have been unable to find a
setting in there that allows this functionality.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I do not want to go back to WLMD.

Hope everyone is having a great summer!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The search folders are one per message store but you can make one for the
Hotmail acct and drag it to the favorites folders. You can remove any thing
from the list that you don't use.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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