Live Mail web interface crashes Outlook 2003

[Tyson]

Hi-

I am trying to use the Office Live Mail web page (webmail interface) from
within Outlook 2003.

This should be no problem since Outlook is designed to render web pages via
the 'Home Page' feature of mail folders (Folder/Properties/Home Page tab).

I have set the 'Home Page' of a mail folder to point to the Office Live Mail
URL *http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/sbox*

The page loads, but Outlook eventually will crash when using the webmail
interface to open folders, read mail, etc. The crashes come intermittently,
then Outlook restarts.

Please help - this is a convenient way to read OfficeLive Mail from within
Outlook if you only have OfficeLive Basic (i.e. not paying for Office Live
Essentials and not using 'Outlook Connector' which allows POP3 access to
Office Live Mail)

I am not after POP3 access to Office Live Mail - I simply want to be able to
access the Office Live Mail webmail interface from within Outlook. This
*should* not be a problem.

The Office Live support team sent me here to the Outlook support forum.

There is no mention of this problem on the Office Live boards.

Thanks,
Tyson

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am trying to use the Office Live Mail web page (webmail interface)
from within Outlook 2003.

This should be no problem since Outlook is designed to render web
pages via the 'Home Page' feature of mail folders
(Folder/Properties/Home Page tab).

I have set the 'Home Page' of a mail folder to point to the Office
Live Mail URL *http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/sbox*

The page loads, but Outlook eventually will crash when using the
webmail interface to open folders, read mail, etc. The crashes come
intermittently, then Outlook restarts.

Please help - this is a convenient way to read OfficeLive Mail from
within Outlook if you only have OfficeLive Basic (i.e. not paying for
Office Live Essentials and not using 'Outlook Connector' which allows
POP3 access to Office Live Mail)

Even if this were to work, you would still not be reading the Windows Live
Mail from within Outlook - you're actually using IE's rendering engine.
Moreover, there would be no way to transfer the files from the rendered page
to any Outlook folders. You're no better off than using IE or some other
web browser.

Outlook Connector does not allow POP access to Windows Live Mail.

Another option might be http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/

 

[Tyson]

Brian -

I am aware of the limitations - see my original post.

From an ergonomical, user friendliness and productivity standpoint, it is
easier for me to stay in Outlook for all mail tasks.

I'll check out the POP3 utility you referenced.

This post is more to bring this rendering problem to the attention of MS
Outlook and Office Live folks. It is super annoying that yet another
'feature' (of Outlook) is broken when trying to use it with yet another
'service' from MS. Too bad.

Thanks,

Tyson