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Can I use Outlook Express or Outlook to access my MSN Hotmail account?

Can I use Outlook Express or Outlook to access my MSN Hotmail account?This is a great question for a number of different reasons.Both Outlook Express/Outlook and MSN Hotmail are part of the vast MSN empire.MSN stands for MicroSoft Network.Outlook Express and Outlook are like MSN Hotmail in that they are all email clients.You can use all three to view, read, manage, organize, write, and send your emails.The difference lies in what you have to do to use them.Outlook Express and Outlook are stand alone email clients.That means that you don't have to be online and go through a webpage to use them.If you are surfing the web and see an email address, and you want to send an email to that particular person, whether it's a journalist whose article you want to respond to or Support that you want to contact, you click on that hotlink email.Chances are that then the email client that will come up is Outlook or Outlook Express.MSN Hotmail differs from Outlook and Outlook Express.It's a free email service (unless you use MSN Hotmail Premium), and like most free email services, you can only access MSN Hotmail online, through the webpage.

Now it used to be that you could use Outlook Express and Hotmail together.They worked together really well and you could transfer information between the two.This ease of use and particular situation aren't quite true any more.For now you can still use Outlook, but not Outlook Express.Microsoft is slowly ending the support that Outlook Express used to have for free MSN Hotmail accounts.DAV, which is the particular mechanism that connects Outlook Express and Hotmail, is no longer being supported by Hotmail for free MSN Hotmail accounts.It turns out that you can then just access your MSN Hotmail account by buying a paid MSN subscription.

While Outlook Express and MSN Hotmail can no longer be used together, that's not quite true with Outlook still.Well, it isn't true if you have a paid MSN Hotmail subscription.If you are still able to access your MSN Hotmail account through Outlook, then that particular situation isn't going to last too much longer.There's one way that you can try.Open up Outlook and open up the Tools menu.Then scroll down to Email Accounts and open it up.Click on the option Add a new e-mail account.Then you select the account type HTTP and type in your MSN Hotmail account information.If it works, then Outlook will construct a set of folders and all of your Hotmail mail will be organized into those folders.

So, if you have a free hotmail account, then chances are that you can't access your MSN Hotmail account with Outlook Express or Outlook.However, your can access your MSN Hotmail account with Outlook Express if you subscribe to MSN Hotmail Plus.Now this is a great plan for you.It means that you can have the convenience of accessing your email account from any computer around the world.But you can also use all of the great options of Outlook Express on your computer-the storage space, the stationary options, your address book that's stored in Windows, and more. So if you do have an MSN Hotmail Plus account, here's how you access it through Outlook Express.

1. Make sure that you have that MSN Hotmail Plus subscription!
2. Open up Outlook Express.
3. Go to the Tools menu.
4. Open up Accounts
5. Select Add
6. Click on Mail
7. Type in your name.
8. Click Next.
9. Type in your Hotmail address.
10. Click Next
11. Select HTTP when you see the option My incoming mail is a ... server.
12. Choose Hotmail when you see the option My HTTP mail service provider is...
13. Click Next
14. Type in your Hotmail address when you see Account name.
15. Type in your Hotmail password when you see Password.
16. Click Next.
17. Click Finish.
18. Choose Close if you want to close the accounts window in Outlook Express.
19. Click Yes if you want to download your Hotmail folders into Outlook Express.

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