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Accessing Hotmail from IncrediMail and the Web

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide

IncrediMail includes this great feature that lets you send and receive Hotmail messages from within IncrediMail. If you don't want to lose the ability to access Hotmail from any web browser, however, you should configure IncrediMail to leave a copy of every message it downloads at Hotmail.

Accessing Hotmail from IncrediMail and the Web

To access your Hotmail account from both IncrediMail and the web:

  • Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu in IncrediMail.
  • Highlight the Hotmail account.
  • Click on Properties.
  • Go to the Advanced tab.
  • Make sure Leave a copy of messages on server is checked.
  • Click OK
  • Select Close.
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