outlook.com webmail launched...

[SoundsGood]

Thanks dude, got my initial + surname @outlook.com.. Not quite as good as my [email protected] but it'll do

 

[PapaLazaru]

It is a bit stupid but as I have got older they have morphed into more normal names. Only bagged first name / surname on them all to stop anyone else bagging them.

first name / surname @ yahoo.com
first name / surname @ gmail.com
first name / surname @ outlook.com
first name / surname @ gmx.com
first name then underscore @ hotmail.co.uk
first name then underscore @ outlook.com

spam name @ gmail.com (for signing up for vouchers etc)
first name then 'trouble' @ hotmail.com
first name then 'trouble' @ gmail.com

Time to delete some methinks................

 

[Vimes]

Can this, as yet, allow you to use an email client like Windows live mail desktop and connect with that...? I can't find the POP or IMAP server or port settings so would they be added in time...?

 

[scrlk]

Can't sign up for an Outlook email address. Is there any button to do so?

EDIT: Found it.

 

[xb8browney]

xxxxxx,

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account, [email protected]. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:36:06 GMT
IP Address: 65.55.41.7 (hotmail.com)
Location: United States
If you do not recognise this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately. Find out how at http://support.google.com/accounts?p=reset_pw

If this was you and you want to give this application access to your account, complete the troubleshooting steps listed at http://support.google.com/mail?p=client_login

Sincerely,
The Google Accounts Team

 

[sirlemonhead]

Can this, as yet, allow you to use an email client like Windows live mail desktop and connect with that...? I can't find the POP or IMAP server or port settings so would they be added in time...?

Yep it's worked with Hotmail for a few years now.

The Server URL it asks you for when adding a mail account is

https://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/sync.aspx

 

[Macro]

Can this, as yet, allow you to use an email client like Windows live mail desktop and connect with that...? I can't find the POP or IMAP server or port settings so would they be added in time...?

It uses exchange active sync so set it up as if it is an exchange account with a server entry of "m.hotmail.com". Works well with Outlook 2013 without having to use the "outlook connector" old hotmail account used to have to use.

 

[welshdragon]

Great, I managed to do it, snapped myself up an original.

If you don't get the option to change your @hotmail or @live to @outlook then click on the "Get to know what's new in Outlook" email and click on "Get new ID".
All your emails from Hotmail or Live will go to the new Outlook address, but you will not be able to login to your old one after this and you should update all websites which use your old one.

Very happy, thanks for the thread Athanor.

So I've managed to bag my [email protected] , if I 'get new id' will itredirect any mails sent to my old address?

 

[m4cc45]

Calendars quite funky as well showing you all holidays and the weather for the forthcoming week - seems some thought has been put into it.


M.

 

[SoundsGood]

edit fixed

 

[fini]

So I now have [email protected] and am left with a great big 'now what'...

 

[HungryHippos]

I got my [email protected], what's the best way to use this instead of my old one? forward from my old to my new? or can I use them both in one login/account?

 

[Emphacy]

So I've managed to bag my [email protected] , if I 'get new id' will itredirect any mails sent to my old address?

Yes but that's only if you change your original "Hotmail" address to an Outlook one, I don't know if it works if you create a NEW outlook address.

 

[welshdragon]

Ahhh. No problems. I think I am happier to keep both and do a gradual switch. Cheers for the update mate

 

[SoundsGood]

Link them so you can switch account without logging out/in

 

[scottomus0]

with this, for example my gfs hotmail is zoe****@msn.com. when it asks her to change does it have to be zoe****@outlook.com or can she covert it to [email protected]?

 

[Emphacy]

with this, for example my gfs hotmail is zoe****@msn.com. when it asks her to change does it have to be zoe****@outlook.com or can she covert it to [email protected]?

She can fully change her email address to [email protected].

 

[lewism]

Service looks great but another name change? We've been through this before with hotmail.com/.co.uk msn.com live.com. So how many more services/times is this going to happen? I like hotmail. I've used it for nigh on 12 years and the list of things I've used it for is endless which is going to make this even more of a pain in the behind.

That and their 'are you a robot' schtick doesn't work on iPads. I will use outlook but are they going to change it again when something else comes out?

 

[Vimes]

Thanks for the server address help but I managed to get it to work by using...

pop3.live.com SPA port 995

smtp.live.com TLS port 587

as a POP type account.

Seems to work fine.

 

[Raumarik]

Service looks great but another name change? We've been through this before with hotmail.com/.co.uk msn.com live.com. So how many more services/times is this going to happen? I like hotmail. I've used it for nigh on 12 years and the list of things I've used it for is endless which is going to make this even more of a pain in the behind.

That and their 'are you a robot' schtick doesn't work on iPads. I will use outlook but are they going to change it again when something else comes out?

Sooooo true it's not as if google, sorry I mean googlemail sorry I mean gmail change anything. EVERY 12 years, good god that's insane, we'd never fit time in to do anything else before the next optional e-mail change.