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flang

I find it hard to believe that you have had hotmail for 11 years when it wasnt released until the 4th july 1996! :D

superscaper

flang wrote:

I find it hard to believe that you have had hotmail for 11 years when it wasnt released until the 4th july 1996! :D

So cutting edge he's actually ahead of the blade.

shopbot

I use Outlook and previously Outlook Express with standard Hotmail. I wish I could use Thunderbird with Hotmail though!

Ken68

Never seen the gain in using Outlook Express or any e mail reader.
And with Hotmail embedded in Internet Explorer, what's the point.

leesmithg

shopbot wrote:

I use Outlook and previously Outlook Express with standard Hotmail. I wish I could use Thunderbird with Hotmail though!

You can, many of us use it every day.

I use it with yahoo, hotmail.co.uk and AOL.

As easy as falling down a flight of stairs.

flang wrote:

I find it hard to believe that you have had hotmail for 11 years when it wasnt released until the 4th july 1996! :D

Microsoft didn't have hotmail, they aquired it.

Rex_Mundi

Ken68 wrote:

Never seen the gain in using Outlook Express or any e mail reader.

Email clients are handy. For dial up users (there are still a lot out there), this means they can spend as long as they like writing/editing an email offline, and just go online to send the email. Same for reading emails. They can go online, download their emails, then read them offline when they want.

I use mine with broadband, but I like being able to check different accounts (ISP, domain name, Hotmail, Yahoo) without having login to different sites. I just switch accounts, and download/send my emails for each account.

Ken68 wrote:

And with Hotmail embedded in Internet Explorer, what's the point.

I don't use Internet Explorer (Firefox and Opera), but I just checked my IE for Hotmail. It's not mentioned anywhere on mine except in my favourites folder (the same for Firefox and Opera). It certainly isn't embedded in my version of IE (latest full release, v6).

Ken68

Had an Hotmail a/c for years.....Left click Tools...Mail and news...mine goes to Hotmail a/c, or left click the mail button...read mail....didn't put it onto this latest computer so presume tis embedded. MSN after all.
You could be right about convenience of offlining, but often use Notepad for long messages then cut and paste.

Ken68

Correction, Rex....Hotmail has to be enabled in Internet Options, programs...instead of Outlook Express.

Rex_Mundi

Ken68 wrote:

Correction, Rex....Hotmail has to be enabled in Internet Options, programs...instead of Outlook Express.

Cheers Ken. I did wonder how they were different, but as I said, I never use IE anyway so the differences don't affect me.

shopbot

leesmithg wrote:

You can, many of us use it every day.

I use it with yahoo, hotmail.co.uk and AOL.

As easy as falling down a flight of stairs.

I would be grateful if you could tell me how to do it.
About six months ago I tried with the combined help of the techie board and could not get it working.