Outlook Banter - View Single Post - Final Notice for Hotmail-in-OE users!

**PA Bear [MS MVP]**

Thanks/Noted.

Ron Sommer wrote:
There is a problem with your advice on the Hotmail Community Forum: "If
you're already accessing your Hotmail account in Windows Live Mail, you
don't need to do anything."
That statement is true only if you add a Hotmail account to WLM.
If you import the Hotmail settings from OE either by manually importing an
iaf file or having WLM import the settings during the WLM install, the
WebDav server url will be imported.
Tools, Accounts, highlight, Properties, Server tab, DeltaSync must be
listed
as the server url.

If you setup Hotmail in WLM using http, the server will be
http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaS....0.0/sync.aspx . This will
continue to work after Sept 1.

If you imported from Outlook Express, the server was
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp . That will have to
been
changed to the DeltaSync server.

I am not registered on the Hotmail Community Forum site.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
[crosspost to OE General & OE6 newsgroups]

This message is a follow-up to my post of 02 June 2009:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...a7d2d5b76b171a

Microsoft is changing the way Outlook Express users access Hotmail
accounts. This change will require all Hotmail-in-OE users to take action
/before/ Tuesday, 01 September 2009.

If you use Outlook Express to access a Hotmail or MSN account, you will
need to set up a NEW MAIL ACCOUNT (OE: Tools | Accounts | Add | Mail) per
the instructions he

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions...k-express.aspx

= NOTE: In Step #11 on the above page, select Port 587 in the
Outgoing
mail (SMTP) box, not Port 25!

= After you've gotten the new (POP3) account set-up and working properly
or after 01 September, you should REMOVE (delete) your old (WebDAV)
Hotmail account he Tools | Accounts | Mail.

= When you access your Hotmail account via POP3, only the messages in
your inbox on the Hotmail web-page (http://mail.live.com) will download
into OE. Furthermore, these messages will download into OE's default
Inbox
and the Hotmail-specific set of folders you're used to (cf.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...403shu01_C.gif)
will no longer be available.

Have more questions? See the FAQ page he
http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions...questions.aspx

Need more help? Visit the Hotmail Community Forum:
http://windowslivehelp.com/community/47.aspx

Why is this happening? Outlook Express [uses] a legacy communications
method (known as the WebDAV protocol) to access Hotmail. Because the
WebDAV protocol is not optimally suited for programs to access large
inboxes such as Hotmail, new alternatives have been built. Last year,
user-feedback led MS to postpone plans to retire the WebDAV protocol
until
more options were available. Now that these options (including POP3
access) are available, MS is ready to retire the WebDAV protocol.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com