J. Peterman said:
I have managed to check my hotmail email with outlook.
I was wondering if there was any way to make hotmail the default, so
that I dont have to navigate to the hotmail folder? Can I use
outlook's default inbox as the place where all my hotmail will go to?
All POP3 e-mail accounts defined in Outlook go into the same Inbox
folder within the information store (.pst file) designated to receive
incoming e-mails. HTTP e-mail accounts are not POP3 accounts, so HTTP
accounts each get their own information store. That's why you see them
as separate trees in the Folder List pane. The mechanism used to access
HTTP webmail accounts is different than using the POP3 standard.
What you want is a HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy. You define a
POP3 e-mail account for Hotmail. Your POP3 e-mail client connects to
the POP3 side of this proxy while the HTTP side of this proxy connects
to your webmail provider. Hotmail Popper is one of those and it is
free. There are probably others (I saw someone mention one with, I
think, "izy<something" in its name but when I checked it cost money so I
didn't bother checking it out). Because you've defined a POP3 e-mail
account for Hotmail (to go through the proxy), the e-mail from there
will also get put into your one Inbox used for all POP3 e-mail accounts.
I am presuming this because I haven't bothered to use my Hotmail account
for anything other than to keep alive a Passport account, so I don't use
it for e-mail. However, I do have a Yahoo e-mail account that I do
monitor and I use YahooPOPs to get my e-mails from Yahoo. YahooPOPs is
another HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter and I've found it very handy as
it has become stable and I don't have to pay Yahoo for access to their
POP3 server.
