Outlook 2002 prevents access to hotmail account

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I have 2 hotmail accounts and in the last couple of
weeks, my computer automatically routes me to only one
account - even when going directly through the MSN site.
I have been unable to troubleshoot this through email
accounts in Outlook and need to get to the both sets of
email.

Thanks,

BD
 
BD said:
I have 2 hotmail accounts and in the last couple of
weeks, my computer automatically routes me to only one
account - even when going directly through the MSN site.
I have been unable to troubleshoot this through email
accounts in Outlook and need to get to the both sets of
email.

Thanks,

BD
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Outlook 2002 was the first version to provide support for HTTP e-mail
accounts (MSN/Hotmail). However, it supports only ONE of these e-mail
accounts. It is a fluke that sometimes users can get more than one
working, but users cannot, those that get 2 have flaky behavior, and
I've even seen users trying to define 3 of them (which doesn't work and
then their 2nd one dies). See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325114. This
means you have to use multiple profiles, one Hotmail in each one, for as
many Hotmail accounts that you have. That is a pain since you will need
to define multiple profiles, leave the option set to prompt you to
select a profile on starting Outlook, and then have to exit and reload
Outlook so you can pick a different profile.

If you want concurrent access to multiple Hotmail accounts, use Hotmail
Popper. It acts as an HTTP-to-POP proxy; you defined a POP e-mail
account, it connects to the POP side of this proxy, and the HTTP side of
the proxy connects to Hotmail. I don't bother using Hotmail for e-mail
(too heavily mined by spammers) so I haven't used Hotmail Popper to know
if it is stable or not.
 
Outlook 2002 only supports a single Hotmail account per profile. Some
people have successfully managed to get two or more accounts working (sounds
like you were one of the lucky ones for a while), but it's a matter of luck.
 
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