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I just got two emails from steam telling me It is being sent in response to a query made by a Steam user to discover all account names associated with this email address.

what the hells that about never seen that before
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You sure it's from steam, and not some kind of spam or scam?

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good point

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cant tell as it was to hotmail and they wont let me viewer email headers
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goto steampowered forums and check there http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/

also find a key phrase in the email and google it if its a scam it with show up some where else.

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steampowered would let me search put key phrase in google only one result of relevance i dont think theres to much to worry about
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dont you use hotmail through outlook or outlook express?

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nope i use it through hotmail and i thought hotmail removed support for allowing pickup your email outlook
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nah ive always done it and it still works. think they removed outlook support for a short while then must have reinstated it

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nope, thats still in operatoin

basically if you have an old hotmail account, you can use it offline forever

if you have one newer than about 3-4 yrs ago, you cant



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I thought it was any hotmail account.

They made it just premium (paid) accounts for a while then went back and let any account work.

I might be wrong...



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nope - mine still works fine and i havent paid diddly squat

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they stopped free accounts working for a very short period (years ago and it definitely happened because mine didnt work). it was well publicised and they wanted everyone to pay £20 p.a for the pleasure. presumably enough people moaned/didnt use their hotmail such that they reinstated outlook support shortly after for free accounts.

it was perhaps a short enough period that you didnt use outlook in that time, but it definitely happened.

im pretty certain any hotmail account works now, regardless of its age.



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Posted: 10 December 2007 at 8:51am | IP Logged  
D is 100% correct.
Hotmail accounts over a certain age will continue to work though any email application that supports retrieval of mail over http (i.e. Outlook, outlook express, live mail, etc.).
Newer hotmail accouts will work in outlook UNLESS they are paid for. I have one of the grand-daddy email addresses myself - The first harveysharp@!
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Posted: 10 December 2007 at 5:22pm | IP Logged  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287424

i havent got a new account to try but that suggests any hotmail account works??



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Posted: 10 December 2007 at 5:52pm | IP Logged  
OK.

It's one of those rare circumstances that EVERYONE is right.

MS removed the ability for 'MSN Hotmail' users that signed up after a certain time to use 'MSN Hotmail' in any email client application.
When 'Windows LIVE Hotmail' was released not long ago, that included the ability for anyone who signed up for that to use 'LIVE Hotmail' in any email client.

All the 'MSN Hotmail' users that were without the ability to use email clients had to UPGRADE their account to 'LIVE Hotmail' to use it in email clients.

So... In the end, we were all right! - It's just differentiating between 'MSN' and 'LIVE' accounts!
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Posted: 10 December 2007 at 6:44pm | IP Logged  
ok! nice and simple  !

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Posted: 10 December 2007 at 7:27pm | IP Logged  
Ok.
Simple version...

Not ALL Hotmail accounts worked in outlook for a short while.
ALL accounts DO now.
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thats what i said all along , keep up lads



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