Divert hotmail to Gmail

[swindonbob]

I want to divert new emails from my hotmail inbox to my googlemail inbox but dont know how to do this or even if it is possible. I have looked at the hotmail options and doen a search on google but have not had any success.

Anyone got any ideas?

[land_of_bo]

If you've got Outlook you can set outlook up to collect your hotmail, and then create a rule in outlook to forward the mail to gmail - means you would need to keep outlook open though and set it to send/receive every 2 minutes or so...

[Simon Pieman]

Outlook doesn't do hotmail anymore. You have to pay for that hotmail plus thing. Fucking con merchants.

[land_of_bo]

Since when sipi? I us outlook 2003 at home no probs (not outlook express!)

[Simon Pieman]

I use outlook 2003. Maybe if you already had it set up it does it but I am certain they charge now. Does it still actually work?



swindonbob,

found a utility that says it will work:
http://www.e-eeasy.com/GetMail.aspx

[Simon Pieman]

Just tried hotmail through Outlook.

"Access to Hotmail through Outlook or Outlook express requires a subscription"

That's the message I got.

[land_of_bo]

Yeah I use it every day, when you use the wizard to set up your new accounts you just tell it http mail access and point it to hotmail from the drop down list and it appears as a folder under your normal outlook stuff. Just added it to my work Outlook and is synced with my web mailbox fine...

[land_of_bo]

Just tried hotmail through Outlook.

"Access to Hotmail through Outlook or Outlook express requires a subscription"

That's the message I got.

Perhaps it's cos I've had my hotmail address for years? Like I put above, just added it to my work outlook and it's aok

[Simon Pieman]

Yeah I use it every day, when you use the wizard to set up your new accounts you just tell it http mail access and point it to hotmail from the drop down list and it appears as a folder under your normal outlook stuff. Just added it to my work Outlook and is synced with my web mailbox fine...

Nope that's exactly what I did. Maybe it's because it's your work Outlook so they subscribe or something? I don't know.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3697286.stm
There's a story about it.

[land_of_bo]

Odd, works fine from home as well, I have a cracked copy of office 2003 though so perhaps that's why?

[Simon Pieman]

Doubt it. A crack only makes the software thinks it is licensed. My copy is a fully licensed copy.

Have you ever paid for hotmail in the past just out of interest?

Anyway, like Bo says, try Outlook if you can and if that don't work you could always try the link I posted above.

[swindonbob]

Im currently trying that link as i can never get my head round the hotmail outlook thing

[land_of_bo]

No never paid for hotmail, though I've had my current hotmail address for probably 8 or 9 years, if not more

[Dazzza]

Here you go Bob, Hotmail forwarding can't be done, Leo says so.

http://ask-leo.com/can_i_automatically_forward_my_hotmail.html

My Outlook actually has a setting for Hotmail.  Tools>Mail Set-Up> E-Mail Accounts> New>HTTP and then select Hotmail and then bang in the blarney

[swindonbob]

Well then Leo is quite obviously a cunt. It should be called "ask simon" because that link thing actually works - you just have to have it running on a PC all the time, which I can live with - I only want it so i can check my emails on my mobile at work (and my mobile doesnt seem to work with hotmail).

It does an update every 3 minutes for me but you can change the rate.