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Well, If you had the same good luck as I did today, you may have noticed that Hotmail in Outlook has stopped working. It has been great to me for well over 8 years now, but Microsoft has decided to make a change. Well,  Everything was fine this morning. I opened up Outlook at 2:00 PM CST and get this nice message… “Sending’ reported error (0x800CCC33) : ‘Access to the account was denied. Verify that your username and password are correct.The server responded ‘Forbidden’. ‘” I have checked all my account information, and passwords etc, but still no luck!  Logging in to the web mail works fine though…

Well, I did some digging and was able to regain access back to Hotmail and Outlook. You need to install and update to using Microsoft Office Outlook Connector. At this writing it seems to only works with Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007. I am sure that will change though.

1. Download Microsoft Office Outlook Connector and then install it.

2. Start up Microsoft Outlook-enter your Hotmail email address, password and name that you want to appear in the receiver’s inbox.

3. Left panel a new folder with your hotmail email address will appear. Simply click on Send/Receive button to start downloading all your emails from Hotmail to Outlook.

I hope this helps. Remember, we can only go forward.!!

 

There is a new phishing scam that targets Windows Live Hotmail users. If you see an e-mail message that looks like the one below, do not respond. Delete it or click Junk to mark the sender as unsafe and delete the message. 

The most important clue that this is a phishing scam is the request for personal information. The Windows Live team does not request passwords, user names, or other personal information via e-mail. This needs to be applied to all emails as well as the most recent phishing with text messages as well.