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Dear Windows Live Hotmail Customer,

You are receiving this note because you have used Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage to view your Windows Live Hotmail®. Microsoft is changing the way these programs access Hotmail e-mail which will require you to take action.

To continue to receive e-mail from your Hotmail account, please select one of the alternative solutions below before September 1, 2009. After this day, new e-mail can only be delivered to your mail programs through the following alternative solutions.

If you use Microsoft Office Outlook to view Hotmail, you can download free Office Outlook Connector to continue accessing your Windows Live Hotmail within Outlook 2003 or 2007. If you're using Outlook 2002, you will need to change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail. Click here to learn more.

If you use Outlook Express to view Hotmail, you can choose to download free Windows Live Mail (recommended) or change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail within Outlook Express. Click here to learn more about your options.

If you use Entourage to view Hotmail, you can change the settings in your program to view your e-mail. Click here to learn more.

Don't know what you're using to view Hotmail? Have more questions? View the FAQ page or visit the Community Forum.

Why is this happening? Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage use a legacy communications method (known as the DAV protocol) to access Hotmail. Because the DAV protocol is not optimally suited for programs to access large inboxes such as Hotmail which now provides users ever-growing storage*, new alternatives have been built. Last year, customers asked us to postpone plans to retire the DAV protocol until more options were available. Now that these options (including the POP3 protocol) are available, we are ready to retire the DAV protocol.

Thank you for using Windows Live Hotmail.

Sincerely,

Your Windows Live Hotmail Team

*Assumes a reasonable growth rate.

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Thanks Alan!!
Tried Windows Live Mail here and didn't like it so I went back to Outlook Express 6.
I'll use the option to modify my Outlook Express account to pop3.

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Beetle, it was also in the body of the post.

If you use Outlook Express to view Hotmail, you can choose to download free Windows Live Mail (recommended) or change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail within Outlook Express. Click here to learn more about your options. <HERE

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Modified my Hotmail account from HTTP to POP3 in accordance with Microsoft's instructions.  Worked fine except I could no longer send email from the Hotmail account!
Had to change the outgoing mail server from smtp.live.com to mail.bellsouth.net before email could be sent from Hotmail.
(Bellsouth is my Internet Service Provider and I pay Microsoft $19.95/year to keep my @msn.com email address while providing my own internet access.)
I could have a free @hotmail.com address but wanted to keep @msn.com because that has always been our address since we went online years ago.



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Beetle, I set this up to try it (leaving Hotmail still working in OE).
Question I have...can you set-up a different folder when it is pop3, or is everything going to show-up in the "In Box"?

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Alan:
I removed the Hotmail @msn.com  account after making sure the POP3 @msn.com account was working.
All accounts route to the same folders.
(@msn.com, @ bellsouth.net & @askmaggymae.com)



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I will leave mine active...until they pull the plug in Sept.

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That oughta work, Alan!
I've got a big update coming from  AT&T (Bellsouth) in the same timeframe.



-- Edited by Vindicated on Monday 8th of June 2009 07:17:32 AM

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