posted on July 19, 2001 01:28:23 PM new
Hotmail just changed their looks and the way they work. Used to be you went straight to your inbox when you got into your email. Now you start at msn's home page and have to click before you get into your inbox. So I emailed and asked them how I could change it so that I could go straight into my inbox. I get a canned response that basically said thanks for writing to us and we will take your suggestions into consideration. Arrgh!
Spam mail is on its way out. I'm contacting my ISP today to see if I can get another email account from them!
Just had to vent!
Edited because I forgot to say I use Hotmail for my ebay stuff.
posted on July 19, 2001 01:52:13 PM new
You're not the only one that hates the "New Hotmail" I am going to get rid of both of my Hotmail accounts and I bet I'll have lots of company!
posted on July 19, 2001 03:57:18 PM new
I use the MSN messenger and it still goes straight to my inbox, and it seems faster now with the big blue boarder. I don't use hotmail for ebay, just for me. I have Earthlink but it's a pain to use more than one email address in Outlook becasue it will only send from one address.
fonze
Not so. You can specify both incoming and outgoing servers in Outlook. Why you would do this is another question as you're "reply to" address could always be the same no matter what the sending server is.
posted on July 19, 2001 04:08:30 PM new
Hello adone36,
How do you do it in Outlook? I know it's easy in Outlook Express, you just pull down to the right address when your writing the message but I can't figure it out for Outlook 2000. Thanks for any help.
fonze
posted on July 19, 2001 04:32:26 PM new
In Outlook, you go to accounts and then highlight the one you want. Go to properties and there will be a server tab. You can set both incoming and outgoing servers.
For example at home on your cable system both of these will be set to "mail". If you go to work you have to use the cable isp's outside POP mail server because "mail" will mean nothing outside of your direct connection.
So you set the POP mail server name to draw from, typically "mail.myisp.net" or "popx.myisp.net" etc. Similarly, you can specify an outgoing mail server which may be "smtpX.myisp.net". Be aware that your ISP may not allow sending mail from the outside. When you set up a website you're always given POP and SMTP priv. But why would you do this anyway???
At work you would set up your home account in Outlook with the POP server of your home ISP as your inbound mail server. For outbound server you use your company's mail server and use a "reply to" address of your home account. When you do this you also set Outlook to send a BCC (blind carbon copy) of the message to yourself at your home address. This way you have a record of both ins and the outbounds you send from work.
posted on July 19, 2001 04:35:59 PM new
Hi.
I know what you are talking about I saw that when I was trying to get it to work yesterday and today. Buit won't work with Earthlink it keeps asking me to sign out (dial in again big pain ) and log in with the other name. Have a nice evening.
fonze
posted on July 19, 2001 06:37:33 PM new
[QUOTE]With Hotmail being the King of spam, I have any addresses from there going directly into the Deleted Folder.[/QUOTE]
Hmmm .. so if you were ever the winning bidder on one of my auctions (or vice versa) I wouldn't be able to contact you. I see lots of sellers and buyers with hotmail accounts .. how do you handle that?
I have been frustrated with hotmail for about 4 weeks now (must have been working on the new look). Was great before that. It is sooooooooo SLOW!! I switched to hotmail when I got my new computer becuase my MSN addy wasn't working properly. Now it's a repeat with hotmail. I HATE changing my email addy .. have to change it in so many places (links, sites, etc).
