Hiya everyone,

Is it possible to divert my incoming mails in Outlook to hotmail?

basically I have a pop3 email and simply hate Outlook. Is there any way to still use a pop3 email but without having to use Outlook? thanks

Yes, you can set up a filter in Outlook to forward all incoming e-mails for a given account to another address. You will need Outlook running on your PC in order to transfer.

I am not familiar with Hotmail. You may want to check to see if it offers to automatically fetch mail from a POP3 server


There are other e-mail client programs for Windows besides Outlook. There is Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird, both of which are free programs.

If your ISP allows it, you can set a divert so that all incoming email is diverted to another address (such as your Hotmail address).

I have a copy of every email sent to a Gmail address, with the email still being downloaded as POP3. That gives me an on-line backup of all incoming emails.