Uploading address contacts into hormail

[Chrissirhc]

How do I take my outlook address book and then log onto hotmail and update the address book there to be the same as my outlook address book. I plan to start using web-mail and I don't want to have to type in each of my contacts individally.

Is what I am requesting possible?

Thanks in advance.

Chris

 

[GreenMilo]

No one seems to have responded to you which is sad because I am not happy with the "conversion". If you use your Outlook Address Book (click on the .wbr file) to cut and paste the e-mail address as and when you send someone from the Outlook address book and e-mail then when you Send the e-mail Hotmail will automatically allow you to update your Hotmail Address Book. Not amazing but slightly better than editing each entry.

Regards

 

[Chrissirhc]

Sorry but I didn't quite get this.

Am I using the hotmail server via outlook for this. Or am I simply sending email from any account to hotmail.

Does this email contain text that is copied and pasted from the address book? in the body or the subject.

If in the body can multiple emails be put in there. Could I update the hotmail address book with all my contacts using only one email?

You're right about sad no one posting, but could be because not many people know the answer.

Thanks for your post.

Chris

 

[GreenMilo]

Chris

I was starting from being in Hotmail and not using an e-mail client such as Outlook. Then Compose an outgoing e-mail and paste the e-mail addressses from the OE or Outlook Address Book. Send your friends a good joke and then as part of the Send Confirmation from Hotmail you get back the option to Save the (new) addresses in your Hotmail Address Book and there edit (as you save) the nickname, first and last name of the sendee.

Personally, because such things were so difficult to maintain within Hotmail I relied entirely on the OE interface. However, about two weeks ago I received a MSN Announcements that told me "Please note that MSN Hotmail provides account access to Outlook Express customers as a beta service, which means support from MSN Hotmail for Outlook Express is extremely limited." plus "Before you read our tips on Outlook Express below, did you know that MSN Hotmail now works great with Outlook 2002?"

Within a few days by OE6 interface ceased working reliably with Hotmail...

Regards


Ian

 

[Guest_imported]

Here's a link that explains how to upload your
addressbook to your Hotmail account:

http://ninemsn.com.au/support/hotmail/OE/addressbook.asp

In case the link is dead, the steps briefly are:

1) in OE, add a new mail account with your hotmail address
2) open your OE address book
3) from tools, "synchronize".