Hotmail in your Outlook

Found this on the Microsoft download site

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

If your using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 then you can connect to your Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) account via Outlook.

This was something i used to do years ago with Outlook Express but the functionality was disabled after account misuse. If you had a paid for account you could still do it but i didn’t think it was worth the cash

According to the download page you can do the following

Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your Live Mail Contacts.
• Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.

With a paid subscription, Outlook Connector Beta enables these additional features:

• Manage, share, and synchronize your Windows Live Calendar in Outlook.
• Access your Tasks and Notes.

I’ve just installed it and adds your live mail as another mailbox in Outlook. It then does a send/receive and it just looks like normal Outlook email. This is going to be a big time saver for me. I love having web accounts i can access anywhere but i hate having to go check my hotmail. For my gmail acccount i have a Vista sidebar gadget that tells me when i have new mail and my exchange/pop3 accounts are setup in Outlook so Hotmail was the missing piece.

Go check it out!

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