Windows Live Hotmail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

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Forward an email message, but not its attached files with Windows Live Hotmail.

If you want (or have to) mail a lot of people from Windows Live Hotmail, be aware that there is a limit to the number of messages you can send per day.

That's where IncrediMail gets really hot: receive and send Windows Live Hotmail from within IncrediMail.

Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.

You don't have to go to AOL to get your AOL Mail. You can get all new messages in Windows Live Hotmail, too. Of course, this works beautifully with AIM Mail as well.

Download mail from a free Windows Live Hotmail account to IncrediMail comfortably.

Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.

Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.

Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.

Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.

Here are the details you need to set up a free Windows Live Hotmail account in any email program using POP.

IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.

Use FreePOPs and these settings to download mail from a free Windows Live Hotmail account to just about any email program.

You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.

You like Windows Live Hotmail but some of your mail likes to arrive at your Gmail account? Here's how to have Windows Live Hotmail convince those messages to show up in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox — or a dedicated folder if you like.

Why use Windows Live Hotmail only for Windows Live Hotmail mail? Here's how to have it download new messages from your other POP accounts — and sort them to special Inboxes if you like.

Want Sparrow to download from and send through Windows Live Hotmail? Here's how to add a Windows Live Hotmail account to Sparrow for Mac.

Since Windows Live Mail desktop and Windows Live Hotmail know each other so well, adding a new Windows Live Hotmail account for sending and receiving emails is particularly easy.

Make sure the emails you send and receive cannot be intercepted on the way from Windows Live Hotmail to your browser by using (or even enforcing) a secure HTTPS connection.

Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.

Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.

Set up a Yahoo! Mail Plus account in Windows Live Hotmail, and new messages will arrive automatically in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox — or a dedicated folder if you want.

Want to add recipients to your emails that other recipients can't see? Here's how to use the Bcc: field in Windows Live Hotmail.

If somebody has sent you an email and you want to add them to your Windows Live Hotmail address book, here's an easy way to go about doing it.

Fancy a dedicated email address for a new project, or one to throw away if it gets spam? Here's how to create a new alias address for your Windows Live Hotmail account.

If you have added an alternate email address to your Windows Live Hotmail account, you can receive a link to a personal password resetting page at it that will allow you to restore access easily should you forget your password.

An image says more than 10 signature words: here's how to add a graphic to your Windows Live Hotmail email signature.

Want new emails in your Windows Live Hotmail account pushed to your iPhone, and folders to sync automatically? Here's how to set up push Windows Live Hotmail in iPhone Mail.

There's no need to remember email addresses. Windows Live Hotmail does it for you, and makes it easy using them, too.

You can call me Berta in Windows Live Hotmail, and address your emails to me quickly using that nickname.

Have Windows Live Hotmail purge all mail from a domain automatically before it enters your inbox.

Here's how to add any email address you like (or don't like, rather) to your black list of blocked senders in Windows Live Hotmail "manually".

Creating a new message with Windows Live Hotmail has never been faster.

Open the Windows Live Hotmail message composition page with the recipient's address already filled in via a bookmark or favorite in your browser.

Yearning for a bigger font and different color in your emails but weary of changing the formatting for each new message you compose? Here's how to change the default font face, color and size for writing mail in Windows Live Hotmail.

Use bigger fonts to make your Windows Live Hotmail messages easier to read, or smaller fonts to make them look classy, or whatever you desire.

Whether your name has changed, whether you want to take off your corporate hat and be aunt Julie for a while, or whether you just seek some fun, in Windows Live Hotmail changing the name that is displayed in the From: line of emails you send is easy.

Sort your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox (and any other folder) by date, size, status, sender, subject, importance or attachment.

Windows Live Hotmail is not working? Find out whether the issue is widely spread and when the Windows Live Hotmail team is expecting a fix, or whether checking your local setup and browser might be worth the time.

Delete all messages (except those you want to keep) in a Windows Live Hotmail folder quickly.

Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)

Finishing unfinished messages from drafts is easy in Windows Live Hotmail.

No right-click context menu! No pasting text into Windows Live Hotmail messages? Fortunately, Windows Live Hotmail provides an alternate route to copying, pasting and cutting text or graphics in email messages you are composing. (This should also work in other web-based email services that lack a context menu.)

Unfortunately, not every text field has a handy right-click context menu. Fortunately, you can still cut, copy and paste text swiftly or undo your last actions.

Make sending Windows Live Hotmail messages to groups of people easier by setting up a mailing list.

Let Windows Live Hotmail help you remember.

Tidy up your Windows Live Hotmail by creating folders to file your emails in.

If a Windows Live Hotmail folder you have created is no longer needed, here's how to get rid of it.

Even if you have blocked remote images in Windows Live Hotmail for security reasons, you can selectively view messages with all their inline pictures.

When you receive files attached to emails in Windows Live Hotmail, you can downoad them easily one by one — or all in one go zipped up and compressed.

Fetch mail not only from your Inbox but from any Windows Live Hotmail folder with FreePOPs (and you can download existing mail, too).

Make sure addressing your Windows Live Hotmail classic messages is easiest and fastest for those you send mail to most often.

Get the boldness off your Windows Live Hotmail "Junk" folder, and the "Deleted" items count down to zero: here's how to empty these folders with two simple clicks each.

Want to reply to an email instantly and get an answer just as quickly, too? Here's how to chat using Live Messenger right in Windows Live Hotmail.

Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.

Want to archive mail faster or categorize it important with one click? Here's how to set up and use instant actions in Windows Live Hotmail that let you move and categorize messages swiftly.

Deletion is not the only way to keep your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox clean. Here's how to file messages to appropriate folders.

What did they write? Here's how to see a contact's recent emails in Windows Live Hotmail — without typing their address in a search field.

Want to forward more than one message in one go? The recipient needs the full message — including all header lines — of an email? Here's how to forward emails in their entirety as attachments in Windows Live Hotmail.

Windows Live Hotmail makes it easy to share great emails with friends by forwarding them.

Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).

Skip today's headlines, gossip and your storage gauge. Make Windows Live Hotmail open directly to your email inbox instead.

Don't like Windows Live Hotmail suggesting obscure names and addresses when you start filling in an email's "To:" line? Here's how to set up Windows Live Hotmail so that it auto-completes only people from your address book, not all people witch whom you've exchanged emails in the past.

Tired of deleting old (and often unread) newsletter issues? Want to archive others automatically? Here's how to set up Windows Live Hotmail to do the trashing and filing for you.

Want to migrate all the mail and email addresses you have accumulated from Windows Live Hotmail to Gmail? Here's how.

Instead of sending the photo as an attachment, why not insert it right into the email? Here's how to trick Windows Live Hotmail into allowing that.

Instead of sending the photo as an attachment, why not insert it right into the email? Here's how to trick Windows Live Hotmail into allowing that.

Share your emoticons graphically with Windows Live Hotmail by inserting cute little smileys in your email messages.

Sending maps, images, restaurants, movie times and other useful information is easy in Windows Live Hotmail: you can search and insert with easy clicks right while composing a message.

Use the "Safe List" in Windows Live Hotmail to make sure mail from people you know or newsletters you have signed up for don't end up in the "Junk" folder.

Do you have enough of seeing all the junk in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox and know all the people who will contact you? Here's how to make Windows Live Hotmail move all messages from other senders straight to the "Junk" folder.

Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.

So many emails — and you just know that half are from a few senders barely worth reading just now? Here's how to move or delete all mail from certain senders swiftly and have Windows Live Hotmail set up filters for the future, too.

Send Windows Live Hotmail messages to your printer without ads or visual clutter.

If you cannot remember the password to your Windows Live Hotmail account, here are ways to create a new one — and get to your mail, too.

Did the emails from a good friend suddenly stop coming? Maybe she has been accidentally blocked in Windows Live Hotmail. Here's how to unblock any sender again.

Has a spammer abused the address of the newsletter you whitelisted in Windows Live Hotmail? Has another sender fallen from grace with you? Here's how to delete addresses and domains from your Windows Live Hotmail "Safe List".

Somebody's trying to trick you into giving away your personal information? Here's how to report such phishing emails in and to Windows Live Hotmail.

Help Windows Live Hotmail combat and filter spam by reporting it. It's as easy as deleting the junk.

No need to keep all that spam in your Windows Live Hotmail account. Get rid of it by reviewing and deleting the unwanted, unnecessary messages in the Junk Mail folder.

Want to save an email to your local disk for archiving, to forward it or to put it in a project's file folder, for instance? Here's how to download a message as an EML email file to your hard disk from Windows Live Hotmail.

Always know what you said, to whom, and when — save copies of outgoing messages in Windows Live Hotmail. Here's how to do it.

Be safe and save your Windows Live Hotmail message as a draft so you can continue editing it later.

Don't play hide and seek with email messages. Here's how to find any message in Windows Live Hotmail.

See all the header lines in Windows Live Hotmail to trace spam, for info, or for fun.

Want to move or delete all messages in a folder and don't care to go through 300 pages of emails in Windows Live Hotmail? Here's how to select everything at once in any Windows Live Hotmail folder.

Send documents, pictures, programs, and any other file around the world in seconds easily with Windows Live Hotmail.

Concentrate the power in your words, not in their appearance. Here's how to compose and send plain text emails with Windows Live Hotmail.

Have your message delivered to a group of people with Windows Live Hotmail and with ease.

Select the desired email recipients comfortably from the Windows Live Hotmail address book, and start composing a message to them quickly.

Deliver your Windows Live Hotmail messages faster, and better with some swift keyboard action.

If you discover a great site on the web, don't you want to let you friends know? Here's how to share web sites easily via Windows Live Hotmail emails.

Obvious obscurity is fun: send an email to "undisclosed recipients" from Windows Live Hotmail.

Have you ever wanted to reply — or send a fresh email — using a different account and address, right within Windows Live Hotmail? Here's how to set up Windows Live Hotmail and any of your email addresses for just that.

Let Windows Live Hotmail reply to incoming emails while you are unable to.

Have Windows Live Hotmail organize incoming mail for you by moving it to the appropriate folder automatically.

Waste neither click nor space. Instant actions in Windows Live Hotmail act on emails with a single click without your ever opening them, and they move out of the way when they're not needed.

Want to get new emails in your Windows Live Hotmail account to appear on your Nokia phone instantly while contacts and calendar are kept in sync, too? Here's how to set up Windows Live Hotmail as an ActiveSync account using Mail for Exchange on many Nokia phones.

Active and sync: with ActiveSync, you can have new messages in your Windows Live Hotmail account appear on your Windows Mobile phone automatically and access all your folders, too.

An email signature can include contact info, witty quotations, or even some self-marketing. Here's how to set up your signature to be automatically included in messages you compose in Windows Live Hotmail.

Times are goofy in your email? It might be the Windows Live Hotmail time zone set wrongly. Here's how to fix it.

Times are goofy in your email? It might be the Windows Live Hotmail time zone set wrongly. Here's how to fix it.

Know how to make Windows Live Hotmail better? Here's how and where to let the Windows Live Hotmail team know about your feature suggestion or improvement idea.

Hotmail, parle-t-il Français? Windows Live Hotmail probably knows more languages than you.

If a message is deleted, and gone from the "Deleted" folder even, you may still be able to recover it. Windows Live Hotmail keeps backups of a few days' worth of purged mail; here's how to restore them.

Get a text formatting toolbar for Windows Live Hotmail and write your emails using custom fonts, bold face, graphical smileys, and more fun tools.

Why go to a newsletter management page in a new tab or compose an unsubscription email by hand when Windows Live Hotmail can do that for you — with but a few clicks and no guessing.

Windows Live Hotmail says good-bye Courier, hello Franklin Gothic, and Garamond, and Comic Sans, and… Here's how to use custom fonts in emails you compose in Windows Live Hotmail.

In Windows Live Hotmail, you can beef up your signature with custom fonts, with bold face and italics, with graphical smileys even.

Let Hotmail correct your spelling mistakes (and make fun of its silly suggestions in return).

Deleting mail, marking it as spam or starting a reply: all these actions and more can be commanded fast in Windows Live Hotmail using keyboard shortcuts.

Love to operate Windows Live Hotmail using swift keyboard shortcuts but wish they'd not rely so much on key combinations dear to Windows users but foreign to you? Here's how to enable some Yahoo! Mail or Gmail shortcuts for Windows Live Hotmail.

In Windows Live Hotmail, you can inspect a message's source (which contains routing information, all attachments in crude form and even HTML parts in their plain text code) without opening the message itself.

In Windows Live Hotmail, you can inspect a message's source (which contains routing information, all attachments in crude form and even HTML parts in their plain text code) without opening the message itself.

Who wants to see all replies to an email in one place and at once? If that's you, here's how to have Windows Live Hotmail arrange emails in conversations (or turn conversation view off, of course).

Be sure to log in to Windows Live Hotmail before your account (and your mail) disappears.

Get rid of a good deal of the spam in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox by making the Windows Live Hotmail spam filters be more (but not too) aggressive.

You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.

Make sure your Windows Live Hotmail messages are accessible only to you.