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[PJ5863]

Hi, I have two questions regarding my Hotmail. First, is my assumption right that only Windows Live Mail and Outlook can download ALL folders from a Hotmail-account? The other mail programs I've tried so far can either only download the inbox of Hotmail (iScribe and Thunderbird), or just nothing (Avanti), if there's not something I've overlooked. Does it make sense for me to try other programs, such as Evolution, Pegasus and Eudora to get all of my Hotmail-folders, or does Hotmail (Microsoft) allow the download of more than just the inbox only for his own programs Windows Live Mail and Outlook?

Secondly, I am looking for a way to download the hundreds of newsletters on my Hotmail-account COMPLETELY (with all the pictures, etc.) to my computer at once, so I can simply read and store them offline, without all those annoying crosses where images have stood. So far, from what I've seen with Windows Live Mail or Outlook, the pictures of the newsletters are not permanently stored on my computer, but only in the temporary Internet cache. Of course I could save these mails one by one, for example as a pdf, but that requires really too much time, because of the amount of newsletters I would like to save. So my second question is: who knows a way to completely store all those newsletters on my computer at once, within Windows Live Mail and/or Outlook, or with another program?

Many thanks in advance for your time.

 

[Concordedly]

The tool for hotmail is Outlook. I've never used any other mail client other than Outlook and Outlook Express back when it was around. Anyway, I definitely recommend Outlook for your needs. I believe if you configure your POP settings correctly there should be an option in Outlook to download the full message + attachments...

Outlook 2007 connection to Hotmail can be found here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102218231033.aspx

Outlook 2003 connection to Hotmail can be found here:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/08/receive-hotmaillive-mail-in-outlook.html

To download full messages:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010412061033.aspx

OR

On the Tools menu, point to Send/Receive, point to Send/Receive Settings, and then click Define Send/Receive Groups.
Under Group Name, select a group that contains your POP3 account.
Note If you have not created any custom Send/Receive groups, select the All Accounts group.

Click Edit.
Under Folder Options, select Download complete item including attachments.


***WARNING****
This may take several hours to download everything and your computer may become unresponsive due to the huge bandwidth and length it is going to take to download hundreds of messages in complete and full format. One might recommend to sort through the crap on the hotmail server before connecting to POP3