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05-26-2008 9:19 AM
asiatique Joined on 05-08-2008 Posts 17
outlook mail help please

Hello everyone, could anybody please answer these following questions:

  1. I have microsoft office outlook 2003, I also have an email account on office live and I have just downloaded outlook connector. can anybody tell me is it possible to access my email directly through officelive? If so, How?
  2. I have added an email account using outlook connector so I can view my email using MS Outlook 2003, but everytime I open outlook 2003 and enter my password and i press sign in to outlook connector it doesn't sign in. I went to my officelive account and it said email service temporar unavailable. Does this matter?

Hope you can understand my questions.

Adrian

05-26-2008 10:06 AM In reply to
RxDave Joined on 02-08-2008 Western Washington State, USA Posts 1,363
Re: outlook mail help please

Adrian, I can help with part of your problem.  The first thing you need to do is create Windows Live ID's for each of your Office Live email accounts.  Start with "Log in with a different account" on the WLID log-in screen.  Make one using each OL email address.  There may be some additional work to do inside of OL, establishing passwords, hint questions, etc. if that's not already done.  Make sure you can log into each account.

 

The next thing to do is link you WLID's.  Again from the log-in screen, click on "Account" at the bottom of the screen.  You will have to enter your password to open it.  Now click on "Manage linked ID's."  Add each email account to the list.  When you finish, you will now get multiple ID's appearing in the log-in screen.  You can save your email and password on your computer to make this all simpler.

 

Now, when you log into an email account, there will be a drop-down list in the upper right corner.  This will give you access to all of your accounts from one log-in.  As you said, I hope this is clear.

 

I am not sure, but there is a chance that this may also solve you Outlook problem.  Good luck.


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05-26-2008 10:19 AM In reply to
royster Joined on 02-12-2008 Posts 1,478
Re: outlook mail help please

It sounds to me that you have never accessed the email account that you created in Office Live. To answer your questions:

1. You need to logout from your current Windows Live ID account first (i.e., the account that you used to sign into Office Live). Next, go to http://mail.live.com and enter the email address that you created with Office Live and the password. On the next screen, it will ask you to fill out some information and agree to Microsoft T&Cs. Once you accepted those, you will be able to log into this email account.

2. Yes, again, you will not be able to use Outlook Connector if you have never logged into this new email account created with Office Live via the web interface first. Do step 1 and then try again with the Outlook Connector. This time, it will work.

Hope this helps!
Royster

09-04-2008 4:50 AM In reply to
Splodge Joined on 07-22-2008 Nottingham UK Posts 25
Re: outlook mail help please

Hi,

This almost worked for me, thank you.

I can now read my OL mail via outlook (2003) however if I try to reply it doesn't arrive at the adressee.

Outlook shows the mail as sent but there is no trace of it if I look via the internet mail site.

Everything works OK if I send and receive using the internet mail site (not using outlook)

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Ta

Splodge

09-05-2008 8:46 AM In reply to
Splodge Joined on 07-22-2008 Nottingham UK Posts 25
Re: outlook mail help please

Ah, easy when you know how.

Thank you

Splodge

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