I access my primary email account via my previous ISPs Webmail service and I want 2 transfer it 2 Outlook Express so that OE is my default email browser instead of the Webmail service!!

I was wondering if there was anyone who can tell me how 2 do this!!

Thanks!!

Desire2006 said:

You just need a few pieces of information from your ISP...

- The incoming and outgoing mail server (sometimes referred to as POP and SMTP)

- Your username (usually this is just the first part of your email address - anything before the @ symbol, but sometimes its the whole email address, and sometimes it's an entirely different username)

- Your password (you already have this I'm assuming)

- Check with them if they require any specific settings such as SMTP authentication and such.

Then you launch Outlook express, and simply add a new account. It will walk you through entering all the information listed above. You might want to also check off the option to leave a copy of messages on the server for like 10 days or so. This comes in handy sometimes, like if your computer crashes, or you accidentally delete an email in Outlook, etc...

set up a password and username at http://www.hotmail.com and there you go.

MickG said:

You can't use new Hotmail accounts with Outlook or Outlook Express for free anymore.

TMPletz said:

I've been online since 1999. Since then, I have had at least half a dozzen ISPs. I have had several emails addresses. Yet, the one email address That goes unchanged, not closed down, not lost, without interuption, is my hotmail address. That alone is worth the 20 dollars a year fee they are now charging. Isn't the stability and relyability worth .05 cents a day?

MickG said:

That may be true, but it's still not free anymore unless you want the basic version.