Vista - Signing into Hotmail account through messenger

Hello
I'm using the new beta of Windows Live Messenger and I'm having
trouble checking my mail.
Whenever I get a new email messenger alerts me. When I click the
new mail message it open then
MSN.COM page instead of going directly to my Inbox. the same thing
happen when I click the new mail from
the menu, or from the mail screen.

Anyone knows how to fix it? Or is it just a beta problem?

Thanks in advance
Dror

Greetings Dror,

Do you happen to be in the UK by chance?

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"dror" <sternberg.dror@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"dror" <sternberg.dror@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3adac57a-ccdc-4acf-94cf-9f523cde79c6@xxxxxxConfirmed here too. All links from Messenger including the 'mail received'
popup only go to the MSN main page. One can make it to Hotmail via web
links in subsequent pages (like MSN), but what a pain for this to not be
fixed for several weeks, and that we haven't been given a site to report
this and other problems. Perhaps the term 'beta' should be done away with
as most untechnical folk think it just means 'free'.

Last night (19th) I got a prompt to update Live Messenger, and proceeded to
let it attempt to download and update, tried three times, then went to bed.
Since then, it can't sign into Messenger and any attempt pops back with a
dialog that doesn't pop out in front of whatever you're doing - you have to
navigate to it to see what it is: Error 80002004 - not responding.

What's up with that?


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"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OCtIX53XJHA.208@xxxxxxUK here too. Currently the non-beta WL Messenger does not pass on the
logged-in status to IE7. If you've gotten mail in Hotmail, and click on the
menued link (right-click from the taskbar), you get a browser window that
makes it look as if you haven't signed in, if the WL Toolbar is supposed to
be of any use. When one clicks on the Sign In part of the toolbar it indeed
does so, but not to mail. You have to then do one of two things to get to
Hotmail:

1. Close the IE window and start again using the right-click Messenger menu
for messages. If you've hit Sign In before closing the previous browser
window, it will finally get to Hotmail's inbox.

2. Manually (and redundantly) type in your username/password AGAIN and
continue to Hotmail (it seems doing the Sign In and refreshing the page
doesn't correlate either).

3. Click on the "Mail" item in the toolbar in IE, wait for the popup window
to appear, click on Goto my Inbox.

Also at times the right-click menu item will not correctly report the number
of unread messages present in Hotmail. This is similar to the error
involving display of unread messages at the Windows XP Signon screen.