MSN Hotmail Email Storage!


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The best thing that Microsoft can do is re open the POP3 for free hotmail members.

And that you can read and write e-mails in MSN messenger!!!!

You don't need the 2Mb anymore!!!!!!!

If you use Outlook Express 6, you don't need Pop3. You can handle your hotmail accounts from there with no problem. And many of us don't use MSN Messenger, or any form of messenger for that matter, and simple email suits us fine.

I think the only flaw in Yahoo's Free email is the text ad at the bottom. But if you pay $19 for one full year, you get all the stuff you could hope for with no email ads or on site ads. That is a great deal, but 100 meg attachments for the paid service would be nice.

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is there a way to open your free hotmail account in Outlook express!!

There's programs that put a hotmail account as a pop3 account in outlook which has to be open all the time to recieve your mail.

one of them is called "GetMail", thats what I remember, n I think there's a lot of other ones too. check google.

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is there a way to open your free hotmail account in Outlook express!!

yes

Tools>Accounts> Add> Mail, type in your name etc.. and your hotmail adress and there it is.

you can also purchase "Hotmail Popper" and use some other email client [such as Mozilla Thunderbird]

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I'm "popping" my hotmail.com messages with Mr Postman. It would be nice with POP3 and great with IMAP4, but the rather low storage space limit on hotmail.com isn't that much of an issue as its not even my primary account.

Let's face it, any fixed number of (MBs/GBs/?) will be a limit sometime into the future.

Why don't some come up with a dynamic limit (exponential growth anyone?), or perhaps even unlimited offering? Well, it will probably come, it's just a matter of time.

For now it seems to be best to run your own mailserver, and grow the disks as needed (assuming you can afford the cost of HW, SW, and management of it all).

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is there a way to open your free hotmail account in Outlook express!!

It is built right into Outlook Express

Tools > Accounts > Add > Mail

Type in your Display name and press NEXT

For your Email address type in your hotmail address (yournick@hotmail.com)

After you click Next, it should default to Hotmail. Click Next if it does.

Fill in the remaining screens and when it asks you to download folders, say yes.

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It is built right into Outlook Express

Tools > Accounts > Add > Mail

Type in your Display name and press NEXT

For your Email address type in your hotmail address (yournick@hotmail.com)

After you click Next, it should default to Hotmail. Click Next if it does.

Fill in the remaining screens and when it asks you to download folders, say yes.

already posted :p :p

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Hotmail will announce plans to offer more space to customers. In a bid to rival Google's upcoming Gmail, MSN plan to give free customers as much as 250meg of email space. MSN will also announce a plan to have a "plus" paid version of Hotmail for $19.95 a year which will include 2gig of email space.

Free Hotmail Service:

250meg storage + 10meg attachment limit

30 day expiry if no activity

Antivirus scan & clean

Hotmail Plus Service:

Annual fee (price varies per country) expected to be $19.95

2gig of storage + 20meg attachment limit

No expire date

No unneeded graphics or ads

Access to pop3 settings

Antivirus scan & clean

MSN Premium subscribers are expected to get the same as the Hotmail Plus Service subscribers.

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Currently, with my 2 meg hotmail, I can check email in Outlook Express 6 without having to logon to the web page.

Does anyone know if this feature will still be available after the upgrade?

Thanks,

BK

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GMail is more than just 1000 megs of email storage space...

This should not be some war between Gmail and other providers, at least on the user side. We all benefit, and whatever service you choose to use, more power to you! (Y)

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I can use Gmail for storage, and hotmail for private Stuff!!!!

same here, kinda. unless google goes pop3 (yes i know there's a program but i don't like that idea) and such. hotmail will never lose, does to the fact that msn messenger is very popular. you can use ur gmail email to chat on msn messenger but it don't let u know if you have new mail.

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yeah I feel the same way, gmail I will use for things like mailing lists that tend to fill up your mailbox, and my msn address is useful for more private use as it integrates with msn messenger.

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