"mary jeppesen" wrote in message
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i am a new to outlook i have a hotmail address but have not a clue
how to set
up my outlook email address


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- Do you have a free of paid Hotmail account?

You cannot use plain-vanilla Outlook to connect to free Hotmail
accounts. WebDAV access to free Hotmail accounts was discontinued
back in November 2004. WebDAV is the scripting language used by
Outlook and Outlook Express to talk to Microsoft's HTTP servers
(Hotmail). You need a paid Hotmail account to use Outlook without the
help of plug-ins; otherwise, you are stuck using the webmail interface
to Hotmail.

WebDAV was considered insecure so Microsoft came up with another
protocol call DeltaSync (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeltaSync) to
communicate with their HTTP servers but Outlook does not support it
yet. Windows Live Mail does support the new protocol but is much more
like Outlook Express than Outlook. In Outlook, you can get support
for DeltaSync by installing the Outlook Connector plug-in. It is
available from Microsoft's download web site
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads; search on "outlook connector").
After you install the plug-in, you will need to use that plug-in to
create an account in Outlook to access your new free Hotmail account.

The Outlook Connector plug-in is only supported in Outlook 2003 &
2007. If you have an old MSN Hotmail account, you will need to
convert it to a Hotmail Live account (your e-mail address remains the
same).

- WHICH version of Outlook do you have?

- WHICH version of Windows do you have?

- Have you read Hotmail's help web pages?