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What Are the Risks of Storing a “Personal” Email Password Password Locally?

I sometimes use MS Outlook 2010 on my home PC to check my personal Hotmail, but I have to type my password in every time I connect. What risks would I face if I allowed MS Outlook to memorize my ...
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way to ensure that my sent email was read [migrated]

I would like to ask if there is any way to ensure that my sent email was read, and to ensure also that the attached files were opened. I use hotmail.
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Outlook won't update Hotmail anymore

For some reason my Outlook 2010 won't update my Hotmail account. I can delete mails, but when I close and re-open Outlook they appear again.
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Hacker sending email from hotmail, changing password doesn't stop it

A colleague of mine seems to have had their hotmail account hacked - lots of spam is being sent from their account to their contacts, and the spams show up in their Sent folder so they're definitely ...
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Sync hotmail calendar with outlook (Without Outlook Connector!)

I have a slightly weird request, but will explain why I need this below. I want to sync my Hotmail Calendar and Contacts with an Outlook account, without using Outlook Connector and without syncing ...
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How can one's webmail being infected with virus?

Yesterday my friend told me that my hotmail sent some obvious virus email. It seems that my email was kinda infected with virus. I didn't do anything special these day so I don't know how come my ...
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Sync Windows Mobile and Window Hotmail Calendar via USB

I want to sync my Windows Mobile Phone with the Windows Live Mail Calendar (Windows 7), since I don't have WLAN. I tried syncing the phone directly with Windows Hotmail, but ActiveSync seems to only ...
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Delete hotmail account but keep MSN messenger

Is it possible to delete hotmail account but keep MSN messenger. My hotmail account got hacked into sending spam and I'm just fed up. I want to get rid of the email account but unfortunately I do use ...
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All Windows Live Messenger chat being emailed to me

So for some reason I'm receiving emails from the person I'm chatting with containing the chat log of the last several lines of the conversation. This has happened with 2 different people only since I ...
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My email doesn't show me new invitation?

I have hotmail account that I used since a long time, recently I noticed that when any one try to add me in MSN Messenger I can't see his invitation. I have to add him my self to start talk with! Any ...
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TLS 1.0 Unchecked Unable to open GMAIL, HOTMAIL and other Logins?

I am using Firefox 6.02 and Windows 7 x86 version. I was recently unable to log in to Gmail, Hotmail and other such websites. I checked the preferences and figured out there was some security issue as ...
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How can I stop Hotmail from sending e-mails containing virus links?

My friend's XP PC recently didn't have proper anti-virus protection. Her Hotmail e-mail contacts have received multiple spam e-mails from her over the past few days, each containing a link (which I ...
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back up hotmail account mails to hard drive

Is there a way to back-up a my hotmail email account? I have seen that I must install Windows Live Mail to do so, is there another way?
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What does the ''Disable plugins during tor usage (crucial)'' exactly mean in Tor Browser Bundle?

Hotmail only works correctly with tor browser if you allow the plugin usage. The only plugin I have is the "mozilla default plugin". What is exactly happening here behind the scenes? Do they do ...
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How To Forward Complete Email Message?

I want to know how to forward email messages with their full formatting retained - email messages like this: Unlike message like this when I click on "Forward":
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How to Configure hotmail in Outlook 2007

I have been trying to configure my hotmail account in Outlook 2007 and getting errors.I also tried Outlook connector but still unable to connect.It shows "Time: 7/1/2011 6:06:22 PM Error in Mail This ...
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From address going into junk mail folder in hotmail [closed]

I have a certain email address that hotmail is sending all emails from to the junk folder. If I send the same email, from the same server, with the same content, but from a different email address it ...
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In internet Explorer 9 and Hotmail, is there a way to open an HTML attachment directly?

I just ran the updates on a Windows PC, and Internet Explorer 9 was installed. Now the user has lost the option to open HTML attachments in Hotmail. Other attachments provide an option to open, but ...
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Can my firewall block web-based emails?

I am not receiving emails in my hotmail account from one particular address. (They're not being filtered out as junk mail, before you ask) I have been given the suggestion that they are being blocked ...
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Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80048849

I'm using Windows Live Mail as my mail client on windows. It recently stopped working with my hotmail account, it says it can't send or receive email. It does work with Gmail, which is odd. I tried ...
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How to troubleshoot BSOD after removal of virus? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware? I'm battling a virus right now, I have a Windows 7 ultimate, 32 bit, Using AVG virus security. It's a ...
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cookies on Firefox 4

So, I upgraded to Firefox 4 and when I sign out of Hotmail, it says: Couldn't sign you out We couldn't sign you out because your browser is blocking cookies. To sign out, close all of your browser ...
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Auto-insert hyperlinks in Hotmail in Chrome

I am trying to get my mom to use Google Chrome. However she gets upset because in Hotmail with Google Chrome, links pasted into the email body show up as plain text, while Internet Explorer turns them ...
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What Is All Of This Stuff In My Sent Email From Hotmail? [closed]

I sent an email from my Hotmail account to myself and viewed the source. I did this from www.Hotmail.com and sent only the text 'Test'. When I received the email, I viewed the source in Outlook and ...
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Multi-user calendar program my wife and I can share?

I'm not sure if anything exists, but I'm trying to figure out a way for my wife and I (or more) to utilize a web-based calendar system. We both use Windows Live Mail, so my first guess is that we ...
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MSN Can not connect, error 800488fe

Q: I usually sign in MSN , and every thing is okay ,but yesterday when i tried to sign in as usual i get the following error 800488fe and can't sign in at all , i tried to sign in even with my ...
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Sending an email to AOL is being delayed and emails becomes undeliverable

While trying to send an email from my work's domain I receive a bounce back in about 4hrs so the email does not reach the targeted person. I have send an email from Hotmail account to the same AOL ...
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Hotmail - appear offline? [closed]

When I am browsing my emails on Hotmail other people see that I'm online and send me IMs which appear in the corner of my screen, which bother me sometimes. How can I appear "offline" to other users? ...
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Contacts gets automatically updated

A lot of my friends are using the new Windows Live Messenger 2011. So everyone only views a first name and surname. My friends think: "I want some dots and commas in my name". So they change their ...
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How to retrieve Hotmail Spam filtered messages via POP3?

I use Thunderbird to retrieve e-mail messages from my Hotmail, but some of them are auomatically marked as spam in Hotmail. So I have to use www.hotmail.com to move them to Hotmail Inbox and then I ...
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DeltaSync Message Body Reading problem

I am working deltasync which is basically using for Hotmail so I am not able to read the message body so is there any way to do this.
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Impact of archiving emails with Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

I've got my hotmail account setup in MS outlook using the Connector software. What would happen if i allow auto archive to run? I consider the web mail to be the master copy of my emails so want to ...
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Getting my IP off the hotmail blacklist [closed]

I got a new server with a new IP address. Apparently this IP is listed in the hotmail blacklists so that I can't send mails to hotmail users out of my webapplication. postfix/smtp[24706]: 8F31C9404B: ...
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Is there a Hotmail Adapter for Outlook 2011 on Mac?

Ironically, the ONLY email account I have that does not run on the new Outlook 2011 for Mac is my MSN account....totally mad but true...I have to run it in Mac Mail which autoconfigures the account no ...
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Why does my Hotmail account appear under 'On my computer' folder in Outlook 2011 for Mac?

Why does my Hotmail account appear under 'On my computer' folder in Outlook 2011 for Mac, whereas my Gmail account auto-configured itself with its own set of folders? Worse still, if you select 'Hide ...
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Virus / Malware: Explorer window with strange user logged into Hotmail [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware? I was looking into a PC, the user of which had complained that he couldn't connect to the internet and ...
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How do I sync my contacts between my Exchange and Hotmail accounts?

I keep all my contacts in my work email account (MS Exchange with Outlook 2010) and also use Hotmail for emails (e.g. myname@live.com). I would like to be able to access all my Exchange contacts when ...
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Can't view old Hotmail emails after Outlook setup

Ok I actually have an msn account "myname@msn.com" Ever since I tried to view my emails using Outlook 2007, I no longer can view my old emails from the Hotmail web interface. I think I messed up the ...
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Hotmail attachments using Firefox do not work? [closed]

Has anyone got attachments to work in Hotmail with Firefox browser?
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Sync my outlook (2007) calendar with hotmail calendar

I would think this should be simple ... I'm trying to figure out how to publish my outlook 2007 calendar from my desktop to my hotmail\live account. I found a couple links (e.g. publish calendar, ...
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Get folders from my msn account onto outlook

I have my msn email account setup with a bunch of folders to put all my different emails in. I don't use rules, just drag and drop sort. On my current computer, I have it go to outlook, and all the ...
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Can I synchronize hotmail folders in thunderbird?

I'm using Thunderbird to load my Hotmail mail. It works fine (see previous post). But there is one problem: How can I synchronize the folders I've defined online in Hotmail? And is it possible to ...
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Is there a way to read Hotmail mail with Thunderbird without using the WebMail pluging?

Some sites tell me Hotmail has POP3 access now, but with Thunderbird it doesn't seem to work. The only solution (which I didn't test yet) is a WebMail plugin that helps Thunderbird to read data from ...
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how to tell outlook not to delete hotmail messages after downloading

how do I tell outlook not to delete hotmail messages after downloading them? I just want outlook to download the messages and do nothing else. so if I delete it in outlook nothing should happen in ...
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Have Outlook use a non-standard account when working in a given folder

I have a situation where I want to have Outlook manage a Hotmail account in addition to the usual one using the Outlook Connector. This is to subscribe to mailing lists, where it is important to use ...
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“Download all attachments” does not work for Hotmail in Firefox or Chrome

I have recently tried both Firefox and Chrome. I use Hotmail. In these browsers, "download all attachments" does not work. What can I do to enable this? Thanks. On checking I discovered that this ...
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Is there any way to use Gmail and be able to chat with people that use Hotmail?

I don't know much about IM. All my life I had a Hotmail account, just like all my friends, and used MSN / Windows Live Messenger, so everything was fine. But recently I've changed to Gmail. The ...
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How can I synchronize my Outlook address book with web based email accounts?

I've been using Outlook 2007 and recently I've tried to export my address book to a file in order to load it to Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. When I try to export my contacts, there seems to be 2 ...
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Possible to configure Windows Live Messenger to open Hotmail in IE with Windows Live Mail installed?

If Windows Live Messenger is installed standalone when you click the mail icon it opens Hotmail in the web browser (typically IE). After installing Windows Live Mail clicking the mail icon in ...
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Connection loss by uploading attachements to hotmail

can anyone tell me why my internet drops when I'm uploading a attachement to hotmail. I have wired and wireless connection (two different pc's)

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