Solved Setup Outlook 2007 for my Hotmail account

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

can someone please send me a link to a "how to" or a tutorial on
Setting up Outlook 2007 to access my Hotmail account [email protected].

I have tried twice using info I found with a search but neither worked.

Any help or advice appreciated.

cheers

Daniel

 

[Ranger4]

This MS website should help you & it has a video as well.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/287604/configure-outlook-to-connect-to-an-msn-email-account

 

[daniellouwrens]

Hi.

Thanks for the reply and the link.

Is a msn address the same as hotmail. I thought not, but for no good reason except that it is not msn.

Cheers

Daniel

 

[Ranger4]

Sorry if that confused but I think if you substituted msn with hotmail.com it should work. However, this website should help you.

Setup Outlook 2007 with Hotmail

 

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

thanks for you reply.

It seems that Outlook 2007 must now connect through Exchange and not POP,
also I need to get an update first but I am having so much trouble with updates
since this install of W7 (from 32 to 64 versions) I will wait until that is sorted
before I try to get Outlook working.

Cheers

Daniel

 

[Ranger4]

Thanks for getting back & we will wait for further requests.

 

[daniellouwrens]

Hi

thanks for your input, I managed to get Windows Update working and following many, many updates
I tried again and Outlook connected automatically and is now working well.

Thanks

Daniel

 

[Ranger4]

That's excellent, good work & thanks for getting back.

Could you press the green solved button so others can see that the problem has been solved.

 

[daniellouwrens]

Oooops I forgot, that is what this glorious Townsville weather does to me.

All done

Cheers

Daniel

 

[mrjimphelps]

Hi

thanks for you reply.

It seems that Outlook 2007 must now connect through Exchange and not POP,
also I need to get an update first but I am having so much trouble with updates
since this install of W7 (from 32 to 64 versions) I will wait until that is sorted
before I try to get Outlook working.

Cheers

Daniel

I currently have both POP3 and IMAP accounts set up in Outlook 2007, and they both work without any issues. The only reason you would set up an account as Exchange is if your email provider provided Exchange as one of the methods you could use.

 

[daniellouwrens]

I currently have both POP3 and IMAP accounts set up in Outlook 2007, and they both work without any issues. The only reason you would set up an account as Exchange is if your email provider provided Exchange as one of the methods you could use.

Hi

The other reason is if nothing else worked.

Either way I REALLY miss Windows Live Desktop email client, it was for me the most versatile
and the calendar was the best.

Cheers

Daniel