11-10-2008
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RE: Live Messenger, Live Hotmail, and Windows Live Mail - Contacts
Does anyone know what the settings are for smtp servers incoming
"Bob Lucas" wrote: Quote:
> Microsoft announced that HTTP access to Hotmail accounts from Outlook
> Express would be no longer be available after June 30th. (I understand
> that implementation of that decision has been postponed.)
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> I have two "grandfathered" Hotmail accounts and one "grandfathered" MSN
> mail account - so I installed Windows Live mail on my computers. I also
> imported my all of my Live Hotmail / MSN mail addresses into Windows
> Live Mail. I have retained Outlook Express on my computers, for access
> to newsgroups and various POP3/SMTP email accounts.
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> I use my primary xxx@xxxxxx Hotmail address as my Live ID sign-in
> for Windows Live Mail and also for Windows Live Messenger.
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> I logged onto my primary Hotmail address via the Internet and imported
> my Windows address book. The Live interface synchronised the resulting
> contacts list with my Hotmail account and Windows Live Messenger. Then,
> I removed a few duplicate entries and re-created my distribution lists
> (from OE) in Windows Live Mail and Hotmail webmail. So far, so good.
>
> However, there are inconsistencies with the way Hotmail (via the webmail
> interface), Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger sort my
> contacts.
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> Hotmail (webmail) sorts contacts alphabetically - surname first. Then,
> if I use the contact list to send an email to Joe Bloggs (appears in the
> contact list as Bloggs, Joe), the outgoing email shows the addressee's
> name correctly as "Joe Bloggs".
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> I have also configured Windows Live Mail to sort contacts
> alphabetically - surname first. However, if I use the contact list to
> send a message to Joe Bloggs, the resulting email shows the addressee's
> name as Bloggs Joe. In this respect, Outlook Express and the Hotmail
> webmail interface are much better. Is there any way of configuring the
> contacts list in Windows Live Mail to sort the list by Surname - but to
> send outgoing emails with the addressee as Joe Bloggs, not Bloggs Joe?
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> Windows Live Messenger is even worse. The contacts list sorts by
> First Name only - and unless I am mistaken, the only sort options are
> "Display Name", "First and last name" or "email address". There is no
> way to to sort by Surname first. Why not?
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> Surname first is the most logical sort method. There are no less than
> seven contacts called David in my contact list - and only one "Smith".
> Need I say more? I certainly do not want to sort contacts by first
> name.
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