- Posted by acxede on August 5, 2008
Office Live Mail’s webmail client comes in two versions:
Classic Version. Classic, in geek-speak, is a euphemism for simple or maimed. Whenever a new version of a program is released, the older version is called classic. That’s true with Office Live Mail too. The classic version...
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- Posted by acxede on August 5, 2008
You can sign in to your e-mail account in two ways:
From the Office Live Small Business Home page
At the Windows Live Hotmail web site
Signing In From the Office Live Small Business Home page
To sign in from the home page, click the Inbox link in the E-mail tile on the home page a...
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- Posted by acxede on July 28, 2008
Gene Huller informed me a couple of days ago that Office Live Mail (and all varieties of Hotmail, in fact) finally works with a BlackBerry. Ever since Microsoft announced the intention to do so, I've been trying periodically, but it didn't seem to work. I tried again after Gene's messa...
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- Posted by acxede on May 12, 2008
Not being able to use Office Live Mail with my BlackBerry has been one of my pet peeves with Office Live. That's about to change this summer.
Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, announced today that it's working with Microsoft to bring Windows Live Mail (of which, Office Liv...
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- Posted by acxede on January 22, 2008
When you sign in to your Office Live Mail account, a Today page shows up. It has all kinds of news and advertisements that you may not want to see. If you want to see your Inbox instead - a more logical choice, if you ask me - follow these steps:
Sign in to your mail account.
Pull down t...
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- Posted by acxede on January 21, 2008
The Office Live Small Business home page has a convenient link to go to your Inbox. But returning to the home page from your Inbox is not all that intuitive. Here's how you do it:
Click on the Office Live logo on the blue menu bar that runs across the top of your e-mail pages. A pull-do...
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- Posted by acxede on November 28, 2007
UPDATE: You can now access Office Live Mail from your BlackBerry. So I'm scratching this item off my wishlist.
There are plenty of discussions on accessing Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail, or Office Live Mail) from a BlackBerry on BlackBerry forums as well as elsewhere on the Interne...
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- Posted by Admin on November 27, 2007
Office Live Mail now allows forwarding your mail as long as the address you're forwarding it to is a hotmail.com, msn.com, live.com, a custom domain in the live system, or an Office Live Small Business domain.
In the past you couldn't forward, say, sales@acxede.net to me@acxede.net. ...
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- Posted by acxede on November 16, 2007
Despite steps that everyone seems to be taking against it, e-mail spam shows no signs of abetting. As methods to counter spam get more sophisticated, so do spammers. Here is a concise guide to combating them.
STEP 1: Turn on the junk-mail filter
Log in to your Office Live Mail account...
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- Posted by acxede on October 26, 2007
Do you have to send messages to a long list of people? Save time by creating a mailing list of your contacts. You won't have to type many e-mail addresses in the To... box every time. Follow these steps:
Sign in to your mail account.
Click on Mail on the navigation bar at the top, if ...
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- Posted by acxede on October 17, 2007
Although Office Live's e-mail is basically a glorified version of Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail at the time of this writing) and, therefore, web-based, you can use good old Microsoft Outlook as your e-mail client if you are an ardent Outlook fan. Recently, I wrote a post about how to connect O...
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- Posted by acxede on October 5, 2007
To use Outlook as your e-mail client with Office Live Mail, you’d have to use Outlook Connector.
The instructions for downloading, installing, and using Outlook Connector are in the following document:
HowToUseOutlookWiithOfficeLiveMail.pdf (1.14 mb)
- Posted by acxede on February 23, 2007
One problem with Office Live Mail (OLM) is that you can access it only when you are connected to the Internet. OLM does not allow you to use Outlook or Outlook Express to retrieve your mail for offline access like POP3 mail does. (Of course, if you are an Office Live Essentials or Office Live Prem...
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