

Set it to forward all incoming emails to your Hotmail/ inbox and reply from there. This might be handy if you have one you rarely use.

Note that you can also add aliases for any of your old email addresses. Microsoft has supported Hotmail addresses since it bought the service in 1997, and I don’t expect it will ever stop supporting them. However, anything sent to your Hotmail address will still arrive in the same inbox, so it doesn’t really matter. If you email everyone from your address, most people will start using it eventually. You can now use the same inbox to send emails from both your old Hotmail and your new addresses, and switch between them.
#Hotmail inbox full#
(You can get to it via the full Settings page, Email, Sync email etc but it’s complicated.) Create an alias in the form and set this as your primary email address. To do this, log into Hotmail and then paste into the address bar. Hotmail General Manager Rick Holzli at the Microsoft offices, California, in 2002. In fact, the simplest way to remove the Hotmail “stigma” would be to add an address and use both from the same mailbox. However, if you switched to using a new address, you would still be using exactly the same email service. You are, of course, still using a Hotmail address. Technically, is newer than Gmail, though both services are updated all too frequently. Microsoft closed that service years ago, and all Hotmail users are using its current service at. Today, I can at least guarantee that you are not using Hotmail.

Unfortunately, neither Hotmail nor Gmail provides that feature free, though to some extent you can fake it with an alias. Ideally, you should use your own domain name for your main address. I now think you should have both services, with one acting as a backup, though you could also back up to Yahoo. I almost switched back in 2013, but both services have changed a lot since then. I was one of Gmail’s first public users in 2004 and spent a decade recommending Hotmail users to switch. Apart from looking like I’ve finally entered the 21st century, what are the benefits of switching from Hotmail to Gmail? And, given everyone I’ve ever known has my Hotmail address, and I have so many old emails in my Hotmail inbox, how on earth could I switch? T All my friends and family use Gmail and I feel like a dinosaur with clunky old Hotmail.
