Windows Live email scam?

aaroncaz

I presume this a scam??


Dear Windows Live Hotmail Customer,

You are receiving this note because you have used Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage to view your Windows Live Hotmail®. Microsoft is changing the way these programs access Hotmail e-mail which will require you to take action.
To continue to receive e-mail from your Hotmail account, please select one of the alternative solutions below before September 1, 2009. After this day, new e-mail can only be delivered to your mail programs through the following alternative solutions.
If you use Microsoft Office Outlook to view Hotmail, you can download free Office Outlook Connector to continue accessing your Windows Live Hotmail within Outlook 2003 or 2007. If you're using Outlook 2002, you will need to change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail. Click here to learn more.
If you use Outlook Express to view Hotmail, you can choose to download free Windows Live Mail (recommended) or change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail within Outlook Express. Click here to learn more about your options.
If you use Entourage to view Hotmail, you can change the settings in your program to view your e-mail. Click here to learn more.
Why is this happening? Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage use a legacy communications method (known as the DAV protocol) to access Hotmail. Because the DAV protocol is not optimally suited for programs to access large inboxes such as Hotmail which now provides users ever-growing storage*, new alternatives have been built. Last year, customers asked us to postpone plans to retire the DAV protocol until more options were available. Now that these options (including the POP3 protocol) are available, we are ready to retire the DAV protocol.
Thank you for using Windows Live Hotmail.
Sincerely,

Your Windows Live Hotmail Team
*Assumes a reasonable growth rate.

Browntoa

no, actually real

I use Outlook Express to access one of my hotmail accounts and had to use these settings

stevemcol

Yes I agree it's apparently pucka. I've just applied all these settings and it seems to work ok.
Can anyone help me with setting up the junk mail folder to display in outlook? At the moment I'm just getting my Inbox.

aaroncaz

Browntoa wrote: »

no, actually real

I use Outlook Express to access one of my hotmail accounts and had to use these settings

Oh ok,thanks, I don't use any of those, I think! my account justs signs in, when I turn on lap-top...don't really understand it.
I access my acount through IE7.

Which should I download please?

freakyhello

i got this through hotmail on my blackberry 8900... does this mean i have to download new software through it?

mr_fishbulb

Microsoft always !!!!!! people about when they do not use the web client version of Hotmail to read their emails.

I used to (years ago) use Outlook Express to read my Hotmail, then they decided you could only do that if you paid for Hotmail Plus.

stevemcol

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

Microsoft always !!!!!! people about when they do not use the web client version of Hotmail to read their emails.

I used to (years ago) use Outlook Express to read my Hotmail, then they decided you could only do that if you paid for Hotmail Plus.

....for new accounts. If you already had an account it continued to work with outlook.
Can anyone help with the junkmail folder thing?

mr_fishbulb

stevemcol wrote: »

....for new accounts. If you already had an account it continued to work with outlook.

Not according to Microsoft - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171163

Or do you mean the full Outlook program?

aaroncaz

aaroncaz wrote: »

Oh ok,thanks, I don't use any of those, I think! my account justs signs in, when I turn on lap-top...don't really understand it.
I access my acount through IE7.

Which should I download please?

Does anyone know please?

stevemcol

aaroncaz wrote: »

Does anyone know please?

If you access your email through internet explorer you shouldn't need to do anything.