Hi again,
I investigated this further since Mark first asked about integrating Hotmail
with OE or Outlook. I used Outlook for years, but since I no longer have a
POP mail account I am using Hotmail  linked to my wife's cable system. I am
now using OE6 with hotmail, it works much better than Outlook 2K as it does
allow downloading and saving your mail locally along with folder management.
According to MS, it is still a beta thing, and it does have some bugs, but
for getting the mail from the lists I subscribe to and general mailing it
works pretty well. I agree with Sven, it does have it's limitations, but I
will live with them until I get to my next ISP or my own domain. The SPAM is
there, though nothing like 500, maybe one or two a day. It picked up my
address book, so that was a major plus. Any way, here is the best MSKB on
the subject Q220852
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q220852

Brad Loomis
Morro Bay, CA
----- Original Message -----

> Mark,
>
> Yes, you can use Outlook Express (also Outlook 2002) to send/receive
e-mail
> using your Hotmail account (i.e., [log in to unmask]). My up front advice is
> to forget it. There are many reasons to NOT use Hotmail (for e-mail),
which
> I'll proceed to rant on if you'll bear with me. I tried it a few years ago
> and stopped it very quickly because it wasn't worth the hassle of the
added
> MSN Ad bar at the bottom of the OE window and the added Hotmail folders to
> OE (under the OE Local Folders, as I recall) so that you could "preview"
> your e-mail from OE but in order to work with them, you had to download
them
> individually to your computer.

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