Situation: You have a Gmail account and want to switch over to a Hotmail account – or – you want to do the exact reverse and switch from Hotmail to Gmail – and you want to keep all your existing mail. This article will show you in detail how to do this – and you will be able to import all your existing mail with timestamps, sent mail and...

Modern day home computing is not as it once was. Not-so long ago it used to be that in order to bring the most potential out of your computer box you had to use proprietary software. Any app that runs solely on a specific operating system is proprietary. And yes there’s still lots of this stuff out there. For the past few years I have been slowly...

There’s a reason I used the odd-cased HoTMaiL in the title because that’s the way it was originally written out. You’ll notice the capital letters are HTML. Hotmail was spelled that way many moons ago to really drive home the fact it was HTML (meaning web) based mail. Microsoft this week decided to roll out the new-and-improved interface across...

Some of you out there who use Hotmail might have seen this today:(click image for full size) The reason I say some is because this is a gradual roll-out of the updated Windows Live Hotmail service. If you use this e-mail, you will see this upgrade possibly today, tomorrow, next week, etc. But it will eventually happen. The bad sense of humor comes from the 2...

GMX is "Global Mail Exchange", found at www.gmx.com. This is a free e-mail service chock full of features and goodies that, said honestly, surprised me at how good it is. A few of the features:Ability to choose an address ending in gmx.com, gmx.us or gmx.co.uk. Can import mail over from several popular e-mail services including Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail,...

If you use Hotmail there are several ways to check your mail.Physically login to mail.live.com or hotmail.com and check manually. Use the Windows Live Mail e-mail client. Minimize when not in use and you’ll see a system tray notification when new mails arrive (identical to the way Outlook Express worked). Use the Windows Live Messenger and watch for a...

In both Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail (but not Gmail) there is the option of using a "Blocked sender" list. In Hotmail: Options Panel / Safe and blocked senders In Yahoo! Mail: Options Panel / Block addresses What is a Blocked list? It’s a friendly term for a blacklist. More than likely you were already aware of this feature but there are more than a...

This is written for the benefit of those who use the Hotmail webmail service. If your e-mail address ends in @msn.com, @live.com or @hotmail.com or you use Windows Live Domains, this applies to you. POP-based Hotmail is not available in the free version at the time of this writing and I’ll say that right up front. You need to flip over $19.95 a year to get...

For users of Windows Live Hotmail you may have noticed that for some (but not all) forwarded e-mails and newsletters that contain images show these images as nothing but little gray boxes. In particular, this gray box: http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w3/pr01/ltr/i_safe.gif This is a relatively new issue that seems to have sprouted up with Hotmail. There is no...

Just when I thought I knew everything about Live from Microsoft, here comes another: www.WindowsLive.com. Is this the same at www.live.com? NO. It’s different. And I don’t mean different in a better or worse way. Just different. First I’ll say that this is one of the few (if not only) web sites Microsoft has done that’s actually easy to...

For those who were bummed out (including me) that the "full version" of Hotmail didn’t work with Firefox 3, it appears that it’s now a-okay and working great. I logged in this morning and noticed no warning messages or anything like that. In addition, the operation is smooth. Very nice. The operation of full-version Hotmail in FF3 is way...

This tutorial will instruct you how to do one of the following (depending on which e-mail you like best):POP to Hotmail (including Sent Mail and folders) POP to Gmail (including Sent Mail and folders)It’s easy enough to move everything in the inbox to a Hotmail or Gmail account. But what’s more important is your sent mail and mail you have stored...

Most of you out there already pay for e-mail and probably aren’t even aware of it. If you are the primary account holder for your internet service (meaning the service is in your name and you pay each bill as it comes due), your ISP does include e-mail service. E-Mail is part of the package so yes, you do pay for it. What is the single largest difference...

In this small mini-series of videos I explain how to use the Windows Live Mail client that includes setting up with POP, IMAP, Gmail and of course Windows Live accounts like MSN, Hotmail and so on. This is video 2 of 5. The other parts will be posted...

Name an e-mail service – any e-mail service – that offers both a web interface and a mail client, by the same company, that syncs mail, address book, calendar, instant messenger, and allows you to connect it directly to your domain… …all for free. As you can tell from the title of this article, Microsoft and its Live Services is the only...