Questions tagged [hotmail]
The original web-based email service, launched in 1996 and subsequently purchased and operated by Microsoft. Questions about the web service is off topic and more suited at http://webapps.stackexchange.com/
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Adding domain alias for already running account @ domains.live.com
I'm really having some problems to get straight answer from Microsoft Community:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/admin-signin/adding-domain-alias-for-already-running-account/...
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Outlook Mail not sending the entire email
I'm using Outlook service from the Chrome Web Browser. I'm having a Hotmail ID btw.
I don't think that my account is sending Mails in full because when I checked in the "Sent" folder only the first ...
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No apps in Windows Store with a non-Microsoft email address
I've registered a Microsoft account with a Gmail address when I first booted my Windows 8 installation. In Windows Store I only get a few apps under each category, like 5 apps under "Photography". I ...
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Can I sync my Microsoft Account with my Mac?
I know it's possible to access my Microsoft Account data (contacts and calendar) using ActiveSync. However, OS X does not support ActiveSync, only Exchange. I was wondering if there is a way to sync ...
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Using fedora 17 commandline 'mail' program cannot send to hotmail
I am trying to use the console in Fedora 17 to send an automated email to myself.
I run this:
echo "email content" | mail -s "blah" [email protected]
It works fine, google treats it as a spam ...
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How to stop the obvious spam in messenger without removing contact?
A trusted friend of mine has been sending me spam for the last few weeks. This is obviously hacked or something. But I don't which account is it since his yahoo, facebook, linkedin and what not ...
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Changing display email address in Windows-8 Users app
I have a @hotmail.com address that was used to connect to my Windows 8 local user account. This is the account that shows up in the Users app, as well as on the lock screen.
I also have an aliased @...
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Unable to add a hotmail adress to the win8 mail app
I have Windows 8 Pro installed on a test machine (latest release, fully updated) and I tried to add a hotmail account to the mail app.
When I tried this the first time, the 'adding process' seemed to ...
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Where can I get POP/IMAP settings for Windows Live Domain emails
I have setup email for my custom domain using Windows Live Domains. I then upgraded from the Hotmail interface to the new Outlook.com interface.
I cannot seem to find the POP/IMAP settings to connect ...
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Log in to Hotmail automatically with KeePass?
Is it possible to log into Hotmail or Google Mail automatically using a password manager like KeePass? I am trying to use the auto-type feature of this program by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+A key ...
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Is this my Windows Live account spamming, or just a spoofed sender?
Recently a friend told me he had been sent spam from one of my email addresses, and today I got bounced spam which had that email address as recipient. This email address was connected to MSN ...
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Outlook crash when Outlook Connectors Hotmail reminders appear
I'm using the Outlook connector plugin to retrieve Hotmail emails to Outlook. Recently I started seeing the following issue.
Outlook starts
I see the connector signing in
As soon as it's signed in, ...
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Converting IMAP to POP3
I would like to set my settings on Microsoft Windows Hotmail to allow me to change from IMAP to POP3. I'm trying to change a setting where all my university emails have been downloaded to my Outlook ...
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pop3 hotmail settings for Alpine email program?
I have searched the web for the correct settings to be able to access my hotmail with Alpine email client - it is a program you use from the terminal (i am using Linux). So far I have no success. I ...
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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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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 e-...
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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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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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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
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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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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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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. I have to run it in Mac Mail which autoconfigures the account without a problem, whereas ...
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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 [duplicate]
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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 that the ...
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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. [email protected]). 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 "[email protected]" 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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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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