Forwarding notice on Hotmail account about to expire
LindCast13
to have a Hotmail account to do so. I have inadvertantly two live e-mails
now, but have received no notice on such on both, only one. If I can't have
two live acct's and have to delete one, will this (above) action do the
trick? Or can you tell me how to cancel one and still keep the other? I am
really confused, because I thought I was creating a Hotmail account when
opening my WinLiveMail?
Ron Sommer
How did you create this new account?
Do you only have Hotmail accounts? Any pop3 accounts?
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Ronald Sommer
"LindCast13" <LindC...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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N. Miller
> Back when I was trying to set up WinLiveMail, I didn't understand why I had
> to have a Hotmail account to do so.
You did not. Setting up Windows Live Mail presents an option to sign in to
Windows Live services, which can be ignored, if desired. And a Windows Live
sign in need not point to a Hotmail account. If you choose, a Windows Live
sign in is not necessary at all, or can be another email domain than
Hotmail. I am currently set up for a Windows Live sign in with my own
domain.
> I have inadvertantly two live e-mails now, but have received no notice on
> such on both, only one.
Did you set up email forwarding in only the one account?
> If I can't have two live acct's and have to delete one ...
I currently have four Windows Live Hotmail accounts configured in Windows
Live Hotmail. Two in the 'hotmail.com' domain, and one each in 'live.com'
and 'msn.com'.
> ... will this (above) action do the trick? Or can you tell me how to cancel
> one and still keep the other?
You could remove the one account you don't want from the WLMail account
list, and never access it again. It will, eventually, be deleted (used to be
inactive in 30 days, gone in 90 days, but I think they extended those
periods).
> I am really confused, because I thought I was creating a Hotmail account
> when opening my WinLiveMail?
I really don't understand why you thought opening an application was the
same as creating an email account with a service. When first installed, and
with no email accounts configured, Windows Live Mail offers to set up an
email account. I don't recall what the initial offer looks like; but,
normally, you are asked to enter account details, when initially setting up
a client. WLMail is, apparently, preconfigured to set up appropriate ports
and security options, based on the email domain you enter. If you enter a
'hotmail.com' email address, WLMail sets up HTTPMail access. If you enter a
'gmail.com' email address, you get the appropriate settings for (I believe)
POP3 access. If you don't enter any email information, I don't know how to
get past the setup screen; I never tried it that way.
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Norman
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