Hotmail is part of the Windows Live web application suite. Hotmail is part of the Windows Live web application HTTP Account - Hotmail

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Microsoft has a habit of changing the name of their online services.

For example, these are the goodies you will receive after connecting the Facebook social network to Outlook:

Chat will also be available when connected (you can also install the Skype plugin to make voice and video calls in online Outlook).

Personally, I’m not very sociable and all this tinsel in the mail interface seems overkill to me, but many will like this innovation from Microsoft. After connecting, the online service “People” will look slightly different:

Well, the already mentioned “Calendar” is, in fact, an organizer. Quite easy to learn and modest in functionality. But in the vast majority of cases this is exactly what is needed. In addition, it displays the weather, which is very convenient.

I won’t repeat myself about the capabilities of Skydrive (Pardom, VanDrive), because I provided a link to a full-fledged article just above. The thing is, in fact, convenient and has its own twist - remote access to any files on your computer from the OneDrive web interface. And there are still little things to look at.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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Above, to consider working with email, we looked at registration on the MAIL.RU and NAROD.RU servers, which provide POP3 and SMTP servers for working with a mailbox in Outlook.

But how to receive or send a message if Outlook features are not available, and quick access to information is necessary (you are on vacation, your computer is broken, or there is no appropriate software at the moment)? The solution is to access mail information via a Web interface using any browser. Roughly speaking, working with mail via Outlook is transferred to working with browser mail and loading special Web pages that provide an interface (essentially) similar to Outlook, i.e. the page also contains hyperlink commands: Create message, View, Send, Delete etc. Thus, the user only needs a computer with Internet access, which can always be found in any Internet cafe in the city.

Now let's move on to the specific implementation of this feature. Although the MAIL.RU mail server, on which we looked at an example of working with email, has this capability, here we will look at working with a specialized mail server - HOTMAIL.

Hotmail is an international Microsoft server that provides services similar to those provided by MAIL.RU, but in addition, registration with Hotmail gives the right to use a number of other additional services, which will be discussed below.

Registration on the Hotmail server

Registration on the Hotmail server gives the user access to all information on Microsoft servers. By registering, you receive a Microsoft passport, which uniquely identifies you online on sites such as MSN, Hotmail, PASSPORT, etc. In addition, registration with Hotmail gives the user several additional services that interact with Microsoft products, such as MS Office (Outlook, in particular) and MSN Messenger. We will not talk more about the advantages of registering with Hotmail, but will immediately move on to describing the necessary actions.

Comment

You can obtain detailed information on any issue directly on the website. The only note: Hotmail, although an international service, does not yet have a Russian-language version of the site.

Example 11.4. Registration on Hotmail

(On the Web Site panel)

Address:= www.hotmail.com(Fig. 11.12)

New user? Sign up now!

First Name:= George

Last Name:= Usarov

Country/Region Russia

Province St. Petersburg

BirthDay:= November, 25, 1978

Sing-In:= george_usarov

(Password must be longer than 8 letters and must not be the same as your username)

Password:=

Re-password:=

Secret Question:= My favorites Web-Site Answer:=

Rice. 11.12.

After successful registration, a page will appear with a corresponding notification and congratulations that you are the owner of the mailbox: Sign-in [email protected]. After clicking the button Continue at Hotmail A page will load containing information about the agreement between you and Microsoft. Scroll to the very bottom of this page and click the button I Accept. After this, a page will be displayed asking you to subscribe to the newsletters of the sites below. If you would like to receive news to this email address, check the box next to the newsletter name, otherwise, again, move to the bottom of the page and click the button Continue This will take you directly to the Hotmail email service.

Comment

Sometimes there are cases when a user entered the login of an existing user or incorrect information, Hotmail will politely warn you about this and ask you to correct the error or select a correction option from the list.

General principles of working with Hotmail

So, after registration, you have become a full-fledged user with a huge range of opportunities provided by Microsoft. Let's move on to consider working with mail through the Hotmail Web interface.

Example 11.5. Login to Hotmail

(On the Web Site panel)

Address:= www.hotmail.com

Sign-In Name:= george_usarov

Password:= ************ (Fig. 11.13)

Rice. 11.13.

Rice. 11.14.

Naturally, the interface of this site is different from the Outlook interface, but the principles of working with mail are the same; unfortunately, the scope of this book does not allow us to describe in detail the process of sending, receiving and organizing messages via the Web interface, especially since this is not necessary. The interface is intuitive. We will only describe the process of creating and sending a test message through the Hotmail Web interface (Fig. 11.14).

Example 11.6. Creating a message via the Web interface

That: = george [email protected]

Subject:= Test

Body:= Test . . .

Now, using Outlook, you can check whether the message has arrived at your email address on the MAIL.RU server.

HTTP Account - Hotmail

But in addition to the ability to work with Hotmail mail through the Web interface using a Web browser, an Outlook user can create an account similar to MAIL.RU, but not the POP3 type, but HTTP. In this section we will demonstrate the process of creating a new account.

Example 11.7. Creating an HTTP Account

>Service > Email accounts..

Add an email account Next

Your name:= George Usarov

Email address mail:= george usa£ [email protected]

Password:= (Fig. 11.15)

Rice. 11.15. Dialog window Email accounts

Rice. 11.16.

After creating the account, a new root will appear in the Outlook folder tree - Hotmail, containing subfolders Inbox, Sent Items, Delete Items and Outbox, working with which is similar to working with folders for an account of the POP3 type, discussed in Chapter 9 "Email".

Let's check for new messages for this account.

Example 11.8. Checking for new messages

> Tools > Send/Receive > Hotmail

The user should receive a standard message from Hotmail employees congratulating the new MSN user and offering to use the Hotmail services listed in the message