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Old 12-06-2007, 06:40 PM
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Default Re: Classic vs Windows Live HotMail

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Thanks guys, that's good for you.
Can I get you to go ahead and get to the part where you describe in detail how you set that up? Thaaaanks. 8)
Well, one day when I was logging in to my hotmail account to check my mail, a window popped up asking me if I would like to upgrade my hotmail account free to a Windows Live hotmail account. I clicked the "Yes" button.

So maybe Jason could try logging in to the friend's hotmail account to see if he is offered a similar option.
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Old 12-06-2007, 07:11 PM
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Thanks guys, that's good for you.
Can I get you to go ahead and get to the part where you describe in detail how you set that up? Thaaaanks. 8)
Well, one day when I was logging in to my hotmail account to check my mail, a window popped up asking me if I would like to upgrade my hotmail account free to a Windows Live hotmail account. I clicked the "Yes" button.

So maybe Jason could try logging in to the friend's hotmail account to see if he is offered a similar option.
Perhaps I should've been more specific. Upgrading to Live Hotmail was not what I was looking for. I want to know how you set things up to get Hotmail to forward your e-mails to Gmail.
 
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Old 12-06-2007, 09:10 PM
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Perhaps I should've been more specific. Upgrading to Live Hotmail was not what I was looking for. I want to know how you set things up to get Hotmail to forward your e-mails to Gmail.
edit: Did some research and apparently forwarding anywhere is only available for paid hotmail accounts. I'd forgotten that I paid to have pop access and to get rid of the ads. Free accounts do indeed have the limitation that Jason described.

Hotmail is in fact singularly unimpressive.

I'd get rid of it except that it integrates so well with Windows Messenger and lets me know immediately when new messages arrive. It also gives me push email on my WM 6 device. Other than those 2 things it stinks. It regularly rejects e-mails from my father's embarqmail e-mail account, so I have to have him write to another email address.
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Old 12-06-2007, 09:37 PM
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Well, I made sure my account is for Windows Live Hotmail and tried to forward mail to my Gmail account. No success, unfortunately. Back to square one, I guess. :cry:
 
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Old 12-06-2007, 10:51 PM
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Seems it's "classic" HotMail. I too have Windows Live HotMail and was able to forward to a Gmail address.
Well, not really - I registered a brand new Windows Live Hotmail account myself, and I can't forward to an email address either! Maybe it's something that was enabled for some accounts for a time, but newer accounts don't have that ability? Either way, it's insane! :roll:
 
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Old 12-06-2007, 11:01 PM
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Did some research and apparently forwarding anywhere is only available for paid hotmail accounts. I'd forgotten that I paid to have pop access and to get rid of the ads. Free accounts do indeed have the limitation that Jason described.
Aha. Thanks for confirming that...now it all makes sense. Except for the part where Microsoft thinks being able to forward email is something that someone should PAY for. :roll:
 
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Old 12-07-2007, 02:16 PM
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...now it all makes sense. Except for the part where Microsoft thinks being able to forward email is something that someone should PAY for. :roll:
Unfortunately, Yahoo thinks the same thing. :roll:

GMail at least does not.
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Old 12-07-2007, 02:42 PM
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It will get the job done quick! And I'm sure they need a solution ASAP.
I set it up, but their free services SUCKS. It only checks for new mail every 60 minutes, will not import old messages older than 14 days, and their email account settings don't work for pulling via Gmail. But it works at the most basic level...
 
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Old 12-07-2007, 05:01 PM
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That is teh ghey. 8O
 
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Old 12-07-2007, 06:09 PM
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Aha. Thanks for confirming that...now it all makes sense. Except for the part where Microsoft thinks being able to forward email is something that someone should PAY for. :roll:
This is confusing.

For what it's worth, I can tell you that I have the free Live HotMail account but am able to forward to a Gmail address...
 
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