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Hotmail and Outlook Express
Using Hotmail with Outlook ExpressAlong with Yahoo! mail, Hotmail is the most popular free email service (webmail) in the world. Hotmail is owned by Microsoft, and uses a proprietary email "language", different from the publicly documented POP3 or IMAP email protocols.
Using a Hotmail email account in Outlook ExpressThe only email clients built to handle Hotmail accounts are Microsoft Outlook (the Office email program) and Outlook Express, both also made by Microsoft.
The same holds true for MSN ("Microsoft Network") email accounts. Both of these webmail services can be accessed directly from your computer, through Outlook Express (or Outlook).
Hotmail and Outlook ExpressHotmail and Outlook Express work much like an "IMAP" email account: the folder you create in your Hotmail account (from a web browser) will be reflected in Outlook Express - and vice versa. While Hotmail and Outlook Express are separate products, they are made to interact with one another.
For all practical purposes, Hotmail is an IMAP webmail service designed for Outlook Express.
Setting up a Hotmail account in Outlook ExpressSetup Hotmail in Outlook Express
Pulling up regular and Hotmail email accounts in Outlook ExpressThe new email account wizard will automatically open the first time you run Outlook Express. It is however possible to setup a new or additional email account in Outlook Express after the fact.
To manually setup or add an email account in Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu, and click Accounts to access existing email and news accounts, from where you can add email accounts.
If the new email account wizard opens automatically, simply proceed with your Hotmail account setup below.
Email accounts (standard and Hotmail) in Outlook ExpressThe Internet Accounts dialog will open, and display all accounts (Hotmail and others) you currently have setup in Outlook Express.
By default, you should have four "directory services" listed under "All" - these are not related to your email accounts.
(If you already had email accounts set up in Outlook Express, they would be listed both under the All and the Mail tab.)
The Internet Accounts dialog is the central location from which you can add, remove, or modify email accounts, as well as import or export email accounts in Outlook Express. Both regular email accounts and Hotmail accounts are listed under the Mail tab.
Hotmail account settings in Outlook ExpressCreating or Adding a Hotmail Account in Outlook Express
Adding a Hotmail email account in Outlook ExpressTo create and setup a new email account in Outlook Express, click the Add button with an arrow, and choose Mail.
The email account setup wizard will now lead you through the email account setup process.
Setting up a new email account in Outlook ExpressThe Internet Connection Wizard will open. This wizard will guide you through all the steps needed to setup your Hotmail account in Outlook Express.
The first field is the Display Name: type in it your name, exactly as you would like it to appear to recipients when you send emails from Outlook Express. This information can be changed later on, after you have finished setting up your email account.
This will only affect the appearance of emails sent through Hotmail with Outlook Express.
If you use Hotmail from a browser, the Hotmail service will use the name you entered when you first signed up for Hotmail. Make sure that the Display Name you enter in Outlook Express matches the name you entered when signing up for Hotmail.
Click Next to proceed with your Outlook Express Hotmail account setup.
Enter your email address in Outlook ExpressThe wizard's second screen, Internet E-mail Address, allows you to enter your actual email address.
Your email address, as it should be entered, is composed of two parts: the "user name", which is the part that comes before "@hotmail.com", and the "domain name", which in our case is either "hotmail.com" or "msn.com". The email address you entered should be in the form "emailAccount@hotmail.com".
Using the email address you entered, Outlook Express will detect that you want to setup a Hotmail or MSN email account.
Click Next.
Wrapping up Hotmail account setup in Outlook ExpressWrapping Up Your Hotmail Account Setup in Outlook Express
Outlook Express' email server names screenIn the E-mail Server Names screen, Outlook Express collects the incoming and outgoing email server names.
Since we are setting up a Hotmail or MSN email account, Outlook Express automatically configures the proper settings for us.
You will notice that changing from Hotmail to MSN in the mail server dropdown menu automatically changes your e