Comments on Forwarding Hotmail To Any Other Email Account

Works well in Australia. Thx.

Thanks so much for these step-by-step instructions.  I've been really frustrated by checking an organization email account that I can't change for months now, and you really solved the problem.

Thanks again!

 Emily

Strange... the ms live does have france listed there. Are you sure you went to "Mail" --> Options --> More Options? Can you provide a screenshot?

try this: Mail-->Options-->Forward 

Too bad, I get stuck at Step 2.3 where I notice there is no option "Notification of new Email on mobile devices" in my hotmail. I tried setting up my mobile directly via http://mobile.live.com and even through my Live Passport settings, but no go... It must be because I am in France and Microsoft does not have any contract with any cell provider here?

Ah, well... at least Hotway on my Ubuntu system still works :) 

Thanks for sharing your solution anyway. I hope others will be luckier than I and make it work for them ;)

I added some more info to step 2. Have you seen that?

spot on cheers mate, works a treat!!

    I've followed the article and it really worked for me, I've got the confirmation code in cellphone even I was hopeless. I'm from Brazil.

Great howto! 

"Once done, go back to the general options and now select the email forwarding. You can now forward new incoming email to another, non-Hotmail email account."

No you can't! :(

I walked through this tutorial step by step and found that after registering my cell phone, disabling all alerts, and then trying to foward to a non-MSN email account, I got the yellow alert of doom saying that I could only forward to accounts part of the MSN domain or whatever. Sorry, but this doesn't work, I wish it did! I *do* however recommend that others try it and tell me what, if anything I did wrong or if Microsoft simply figured this trick out and disabled it on there end.

Thanks for the tip and if anyone has any suggestions on how to get this working, let us know :)

Chrelad

Could you walk us all through how you got this to work?

Thanks,

Chrelad

yeah I got same error, doesn't wanna let me use non-hotmail acounts

This seems like an awful lot of work to do something already offered by hotmail. If you look at the 2nd or 3rd screen shot above you'll see "add another email account" higher up the page. This allows you to add gmail and other non MS accounts that don't restrict it. You can also set up a separate folder for the non MS account to keep emails organized. Works like a charm.

The point is not to read e-mail from another account in Hotmail, which is what that feature does, but forward incoming mail from Hotmail to another account such as GMAIL or ZOHO, which unless you pay, it does not let you do. It's the same for Yahoo Mail. 

Thanks for all the hard work on the tutorial. I have been looking for a solution and I just found it. I will try it tonight.

You don't need to do all this...just put the other email in the account forwarding box under Mail Options.

well, you can forward it to non-hotmail accounts if you have a "pay account" at hotmail/windows live.

I am not sure how you came to this but I was able to setup a email forwarding to a non-hotmail account.

You should checkout FreePOPs (windows/linux/osx/beos):

FreePOPs is an easily extensible program, which allows access to the most varied resources through the POP3 protocol.
Mainly, it can be used to download mail from the most famous webmails, but it could also be used as an aggregator for RSS feeds and much more. This way it is possible to get all your messages in your favorite email client.

Hi,

It really works.

Thanks for that.

Cheers.

You are a genius!

 It ain't supposed to work. You shouldn't be able to forward your emails from Hotmail to Gmail, but you cracked the code!

 You save my behind on a project where this absoposolutely needed to be done. I just bought you a virtual beer <cheers>.

Great write up. Thanks for the help.

Steve

been pulling-my-hair-out crazy to get hotmail to fwd to gmail. it's working now. Many many THANKS SJAU =)

Be careful, Microsoft sends three texts before you can disable the text sending service in step 11. And they charge you whatever it told you in step 9 for each of them.
The first text is the activation code, second is a "welcome" message, third is a "how to use this service" message.

This worked! I have been battling with Hotmail for months. Now I can happily and efficiently move on. Thank you thank you thank you!

It worked! But had to do extra bit at the end (bullet points after step 15)

awesome tutorial, thanks

will this emails keep coming if I delete the email account it's coming from a few weeks later?

can i close the hotmail email account after doing this?

Thank you. This is really helpful. I really don’t want to use a paid tool at this point. I already love some of these tools you suggested.

Wow, very nice! I will try do this myself.