Free Hotmail will work in Outlook (2003 or 2007) if you get the
Outlook Connector:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...225181033.aspx
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
news:ug4H5W3tIHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Some of the 'free' email services are not available in Outlook, eg Hotmail
> requires the premium hotmail service.
> When you test the account settings in OL you will receive err.msgs - post
> these when you repost to an outlook group
>
> "Luke Calvert" <LukeCalvert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:970D9D8B-66D4-462C-95C5-1D8291F1FD0F@microsoft.com...
>> In Control Panel - Mail - Mail Setup - email accounts, I type in the
>> required
>> details to set up an existing mail and it doesn't recognise it when it
>> tries
>> to read the server (red cross instead of tick). I have tried a Yahoo
>> account,
>> Windows Live account and another one, and tried using "unencrypted" and
>> since
>> my knowledge of Vista is fairly basic, I am not sure about doing it
>> manually.
>> I can't receive and send emails in Outlook 2007 because of this. What
>> would
>> be the problem?
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Luke Calvert
>>
>
>