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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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Again, if all was well in OE to begin with and you'd set-up the POP3
account properly, you should not have seen this behavior.

If you need further help with this...

Hotmail Online Solutions Center (new & replaces all newsgroup & email
format support)
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Solutions for Common Problems
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Ellen G wrote:
I am using OE with the old Hotmail settings. Tried Windows Live Mail but
didn't like it.

I thought that the new settings should work, but if the programme won't
open, then I really don't have a choice. Following the instructions and
adding a new account (say, without first removing the old one from the
list), seemed to confuse OE6.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Assuming you were referring to Outlook Express, not Outlook...

1. Please be careful with your shorthand references. Outlook Express
(OE)
and Outlook (OL) are NOT the same application: If you refer to OL but
mean
OE, you could be offered dangerous, possibly disastrous, information!

2. Assuming all was well with OE to begin with, you should be able to
have
your Hotmail account running in OE as a POP3 account and as a WebDAV
account without encountering such problems...at least until 01
September.

So where do you stand now? Is Hotmail running as a WebDAV account
(server
points to http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp), as a POP3
account (incoming server points to pop3.live.com; outgoing server points
to
smtp.live.com), or both?
--
~PA Bear

Ellen G wrote:
[nothing]

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Are you referring to Outlook or Outlook Express, Ellen?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

Ellen G wrote:
I received a message this morning about adding a hotmail pop3 account
in
Express so Hotmail remains accessble. I use Messenger but find
Outlook
a
useful backup when messenger crashes. I therefore followed the
instructions
to the letter, added a new hotmail account, made it my default, and
closed.
I then tried to click on the shortcut on the desktop to check that
the
system was working and couldn't open express. I restored to an
earlier
time, made the old setting the default again, but saw that outlook
was
downloading hotmails from the new account as well as the old. I
closed,
and
tried to click on the outlook icon. Again, no response. Having both
listed
causes problems.

Should I have removed the old hotmail account rather than just add
and
make
the new account the default. If so, what happens to the saved
hotmails
from
the old account?

I've used restore system to get outlook back and for now and removed
the
new account altogether. At least Outlook works again.

There was no info re removing the old account in Microsoft's email.

Can anyone enlighten me?