Incarnadine said:
I have been trying to connect Outlook 2007 to my Windows Live account,
Windows Live is a suite of services. You don't mention which one. Might it
be their Hotmail e-mail service? A Windows Live account is just your Live
ID, not a particular service used by the Live ID.
but I have had no success. I'm beggining to think that it's not possible.
Is there something that I'm missing? Thanks for reading.
"had no success" tell no one just what happened when you tried. You don't
even mention if you are trying to use POP or HTTP/Deltasync to access your
Hotmail account.
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Microsoft dropped the old HTTP/WebDAV protocol to move to their new
HTTP/Deltasync protocol. None of Microsoft e-mail clients (and no one
else's, either) have native support for the new Deltasync protocol except
for Microsoft's Windows Live Mail (WLM) client, the replacement for Outlook
Express. If you have versions 2003 or 2007 of Outlook, you could install
Microsoft's Outlook Connector add-on to add Deltasync support to those
versions of Outlook. The add-on won't work with prior versions of Outlook.
There will be no fix for Outlook Express since support for it died in 2002.
OE is dead and been dead for several years, and there will be no changes to
it to add Deltasync support.
Deltasync is for the benefit of Microsoft, not for real benefit to Hotmail
users as Microsoft claims (other than security might've been improved).
Microsoft had planned to completely switch from WebDAV to Deltasync at the
end of June 2008 but there was such a big stink that they delayed the
switchover. I don't know when or how they intend to deploy Deltasync or it
what manner but it will happen. Read the following:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...s_off_hotmail_access_via_outlook_express.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Oulook-Express-Access-to-Hotmail-Not-Dead-Yet-84895.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeltaSync
Found an interesting blog that mentions a meeting with Omar Shahine who
discusses the changeover to Deltasync:
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/interview/default.aspx
which has a link to the recorded meeting (audio only), a copy of which is
also at:
http://www.liveside.net/files/folders/5578/download.aspx
Your choices are:
- Abandon your Hotmail account. Give up on using Microsoft proprietary
formats. There has been an average of at least one major change to the
Hotmail service each year since Microsoft acquired it. Instead use an
account that uses the RFC standard protocols of POP (or IMAP) and SMTP.
- Give up using a local e-mail client and use the webmail interface to
Hotmail.
- Upgrade to a later version of Outlook and install the add-on that adds
Deltasync support to Outlook.
- Pay for a Windows Live Hotmail PLUS account which gives you access to
their POP/SMTP mail hosts (which got re-add back in Nov 2007).
- Switch to the Windows Live Mail (WLM) client. You will lose the
journaling, notes, and calendaring and to-do lists from Outlook. The beta
version of WLM adds a calendar and to-do lists but don't bother with beta
versions unless you are drawn to incurring further frustrations. You can
combine EssentialPIM (free version) to regain most of the PIM functions lost
by leaving Outlook (except journaling) with using WLM for e-mail/newsgroup
functions. Of course, if you need the enterprise features of Outlook in a
corporate environment then you are stuck using Outlook; however, for a
business, you would be provided a later version of Outlook in which you
could use the add-on, but businesses don't use Hotmail accounts (free or
paid). If you use Hotmail, it is likely not for business use which means
you don't need nor can use the enterprise features in Outlook.
- Use a screen/URL scraper utility that can navigate the web pages for the
webmail interface to your Hotmail account. These run as a local POP-to-HTTP
proxy: you connect any POP client to it and it connects to the webmail
service via HTTP. Thunderbird has its webmail add-on that tries to support
Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and some other webmail-based e-mail services. FreePOPs
supposedly supports Hotmail.com but I couldn't get it to work with live.com
as the Hotmail domain. The problem with screen-scrape utilities is that a
small change in the web pages or the URLs to navigate between them means
that the screen-scraper stops working and you must wait until the
POP-to-HTTP proxy author gets around to repairing and synchronizing their
program to those changes. I've used YahooPOPs, another POP-to-HTTP proxy,
to access my freebie Yahoo Mail account for years but there are times when
it stops working and I have to wait until it gets fixed during which I have
to resort to using the webmail interface to my Yahoo account.
