email question

[DUSTIN]

the thing is my hotmail account is filling up with all of these emails. i don't really wanna get rid of some of them. does anyone know of a way that i can get them messages on my computer in outlook or something without having to go into my hotmail and forwarding them all to myself? thanks

[K A Hall]

You can use outlook express and set it up to check your hotmail account or get outlook 2002 which does the same. I believe they will pull all of your hotmail folders and e-mails off of the servers when you set it up.

[bosco]

In outlook express5: tools>accounts>add>mail. You get to a "display name" screen. put whatever you want there. hit next. Radio button: "I already have an e-mail address that I want to use blahblah"... put you hotmail e-mail address there. next and follow the menus. that should set it up to work with outlook express.

After you set up your hotmail with outlook express, you need to make a local folder or two. Example: In Archive, Sent Archive. After you down load your e-mail/hotmail to outlook express. Move the messages to the local folders. That will get them off the hotmail server. That's how I have it set-up anyway.

[homer15]

also, if you decide to use outlook express, make sure you disable sent items box.
tools | options | send tab| deselect 'save a copy of sent messages in sent items folder'
if you don't do this, your hotmail account will most likely be frozen. all of your sent messages would count against your account total. if you ever send a picture, this would be especially troubling. other than that, everything else should work fine. and you could leave outlook open for a whole computer session and not have to worry about annoying, bandwidth stealing advertisements, like you get with the normal hotmail interface.

[doctorgonzo]

I have the setup that bosco describes: I have local folders in Outlook and from time to time I move e-mails from the Hotmail folders to the local folders. It works just fine.

[homer15]

anything that requires manually moving stuff is sort of risky in case you forget to do it, or if you get lazy and let it go for too long without getting it done.

[bosco]

Or you can go with yahoo web based e-mail. You get 6MB of space there as compaired to the 2MB of space with hotmail. I use hotmail because it works with outlook express, otherwise it would be Yahoo.