outlook 2007 - no alerts for my msn.com account

[Chris Mann]

i am trying to recieve aduio alerts from my msn account that i have hade for
many years. i am able to set allerts for my pop3 account but not for my msn
accout, which is an http account.
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Chris

 

[Brian Tillman]

i am trying to recieve aduio alerts from my msn account that i have
hade for many years. i am able to set allerts for my pop3 account but
not for my msn accout, which is an http account.

Right. HTTP accounts can't alert you that way.

 

[Chris Mann]

Thank you Brian,
I have upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007, and im sure i could do this with
outlook 2003? Seems a bit of a backward step.
Kind regards
Chris

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007, and im sure i could do this
with outlook 2003? Seems a bit of a backward step.

Are you using the Outlook Connector?

 

[Chris Mann]

thanks for the reply brian,
yes ive downloaded and installed the connector...
chris

 

[Brian Tillman]

thanks for the reply brian,
yes ive downloaded and installed the connector...

Are the MSN folders the delivery location folders?

 

[Chris Mann]

Brian,
not sure what you mean, however by looking into the rules and alerts page,
only my pop3 account appears in the drop down list to add rules/alerts too.
My msn email is my default account and all my msn mail gets delivered to my
msn inbox
Chris

 

[Brian Tillman]

not sure what you mean, however by looking into the rules and alerts
page, only my pop3 account appears in the drop down list to add
rules/alerts too. My msn email is my default account and all my msn
mail gets delivered to my msn inbox

While you may think your MSN account is your default account, it's not your
delivery location and unless you're using Hotmail Premium, I don't think it
can be made to be your delivery location. Alerts happen only for the
delivery location Inbox, without third-party software.