cannot use outlook, can't figure it out

[rico]

I had outlook for about two years and now that I need to use it I can't get
it to work for me. Would like to use my hotmail account as the server but not
as a seperate profile.
i.e I would like the outlook inbox to be the same as my hotmail inbox.All
mail sent and received with go through the hotmail account so I can use it as
I travel around and get the benefits of outlook. Altough I can access my
inbox and outbox under the folders heading I cannot acces my other saved
folders. Also if I send a message for the outlook forder to my hotmail the is
no record in the sent files but I do receive it in hotmail. This is probably
very simple for clever person but I cannot find any solution in the help
menue. No doubt I have set it up all wrong.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I had outlook for about two years and now that I need to use it I can't get
it to work for me. Would like to use my hotmail account as the server but
not
as a seperate profile.

You don't need a separate profile to use Live Mail with Outlook. Folder sets
and profiles are not the same things.

i.e I would like the outlook inbox to be the same as my hotmail inbox.All
mail sent and received with go through the hotmail account so I can use it
as
I travel around and get the benefits of outlook.

Do you have more than one account defined in your mail profile? I.e., do you
have a POP account as well as a Live Mail account?

Altough I can access my
inbox and outbox under the folders heading I cannot acces my other saved
folders. Also if I send a message for the outlook forder to my hotmail the
is
no record in the sent files but I do receive it in hotmail. This is probably
very simple for clever person but I cannot find any solution in the help
menue. No doubt I have set it up all wrong.

Describe in detail how you have it set up and we should be able to say how to
change it.