I'm re-asking a question that started, a few posts down, as being about how
to get the calendar working properly in Outlook 2007. But having deleted and
re-created my profile, I have another problem.

I have two e-mail accounts: a company one and a premium MSN account which
I've had since the earliest (pre-web!) days of MSN.

In setting up my new profiles, Outlook (or MSN?) did something to that
account which, as far as I can see, siwtched it from POP3 to HTTP.

I don't know what that means, but can see that the MSN account now has its
own separate pst file with a long name full of letters and numbers, and there
seems to be a new kind of mirror pst file called outlook1.pst, which exists
only to translate (or whatever) this account into something that works in
Outlook.

But it's all very half baked. A regular Send/Receive doesn't seem to pick up
any of the MSN mail -- you have to click on the folder itself for it to do
its own Send/Receive. You can't apply any Outlook rules, alerts etc. to it,
and while it has its own Junk e-Mail folder, you can't empty the junk folder
from a right-click menu (as you can with a regular junk mail folder). And if
you delete this Outlook1.pst, then it won't pick up any msn e-mail at all, so
you have to re-create it.

And so on and on. (Note: no such problems with my regular company POP3
account, which is working just fine.)

So is there any overall explanation anywhere of what this bizarre new system
is (and why this is considered an "upgrade"?)?

P.S. In the old days (i.e. before this weekend) I used to copy one simple
outlook.pst back and forth to my notebook when traveling. I'm dreading
even to imagine what happens when I try this now. How many pst's do I copy?
And will they all work?

I'm off on a trip this evening and would appreciate any insights before I
try configuring my laptop to accommodate all the changes I've been finding on
my desktop copy of Outlook 2007

..

how did you set up the MSN account? If you let outlook find it, yes, its now
converted to a web account. If you are paying for MSN premium, you can use
the Outlook connector - this gives you Exchange server like access to
MSN/hotmail - including the calendar and contacts.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

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"mikemartin" wrote in message
...
I'm re-asking a question that started, a few posts down, as being about
how
to get the calendar working properly in Outlook 2007. But having deleted
and
re-created my profile, I have another problem.

I have two e-mail accounts: a company one and a premium MSN account which
I've had since the earliest (pre-web!) days of MSN.

In setting up my new profiles, Outlook (or MSN?) did something to that
account which, as far as I can see, siwtched it from POP3 to HTTP.

I don't know what that means, but can see that the MSN account now has its
own separate pst file with a long name full of letters and numbers, and
there
seems to be a new kind of mirror pst file called outlook1.pst, which
exists
only to translate (or whatever) this account into something that works in
Outlook.

But it's all very half baked. A regular Send/Receive doesn't seem to pick
up
any of the MSN mail -- you have to click on the folder itself for it to do
its own Send/Receive. You can't apply any Outlook rules, alerts etc. to
it,
and while it has its own Junk e-Mail folder, you can't empty the junk
folder
from a right-click menu (as you can with a regular junk mail folder). And
if
you delete this Outlook1.pst, then it won't pick up any msn e-mail at all,
so
you have to re-create it.

And so on and on. (Note: no such problems with my regular company POP3
account, which is working just fine.)

So is there any overall explanation anywhere of what this bizarre new
system
is (and why this is considered an "upgrade"?)?

P.S. In the old days (i.e. before this weekend) I used to copy one simple
outlook.pst back and forth to my notebook when traveling. I'm dreading
even to imagine what happens when I try this now. How many pst's do I
copy?
And will they all work?

I'm off on a trip this evening and would appreciate any insights before I
try configuring my laptop to accommodate all the changes I've been finding
on
my desktop copy of Outlook 2007

.

Thanks. If I can get it back to old-style that wd be great. Can you give me
a quick link to where I can get all the info on doing this. Outlook
connector? And whether it's safe to delete the pst's that msn is now using?
(I don't mind deleting them ... can easily copy over old stuff first etc...)

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

how did you set up the MSN account? If you let outlook find it, yes, its now
converted to a web account. If you are paying for MSN premium, you can use
the Outlook connector - this gives you Exchange server like access to
MSN/hotmail - including the calendar and contacts.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


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"mikemartin" wrote in message
...
I'm re-asking a question that started, a few posts down, as being about
how
to get the calendar working properly in Outlook 2007. But having deleted
and
re-created my profile, I have another problem.

I have two e-mail accounts: a company one and a premium MSN account which
I've had since the earliest (pre-web!) days of MSN.

In setting up my new profiles, Outlook (or MSN?) did something to that
account which, as far as I can see, siwtched it from POP3 to HTTP.

I don't know what that means, but can see that the MSN account now has its
own separate pst file with a long name full of letters and numbers, and
there
seems to be a new kind of mirror pst file called outlook1.pst, which
exists
only to translate (or whatever) this account into something that works in
Outlook.

But it's all very half baked. A regular Send/Receive doesn't seem to pick
up
any of the MSN mail -- you have to click on the folder itself for it to do
its own Send/Receive. You can't apply any Outlook rules, alerts etc. to
it,
and while it has its own Junk e-Mail folder, you can't empty the junk
folder
from a right-click menu (as you can with a regular junk mail folder). And
if
you delete this Outlook1.pst, then it won't pick up any msn e-mail at all,
so
you have to re-create it.

And so on and on. (Note: no such problems with my regular company POP3
account, which is working just fine.)

So is there any overall explanation anywhere of what this bizarre new
system
is (and why this is considered an "upgrade"?)?

P.S. In the old days (i.e. before this weekend) I used to copy one simple
outlook.pst back and forth to my notebook when traveling. I'm dreading
even to imagine what happens when I try this now. How many pst's do I
copy?
And will they all work?

I'm off on a trip this evening and would appreciate any insights before I
try configuring my laptop to accommodate all the changes I've been finding
on
my desktop copy of Outlook 2007

.