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Name on replies is different than my account

15. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: Outlook account
Hopefully this is not as confusing as it sounds.
If I send mail from my Outlook account to someone on my contact list it shows my correct name.

If that person replies from a Gmail account to my Outlook account it has a different first name but correct last name.

I have a gmail account also and it has my correct name on all settings as does my Outlook account. I have spent 2 hours going back and forth between the two accounts to check and can't find where it is having the wrong name connected to my Outlook account.

For example:
Outlook account email address: butterflies+my last *** Email address is removed for privacy ***
If someone is reply to that same address it has my name as: (again only a example)zebras+my last *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Not sure why if the reply is not from a Outlook account its changing my first name.

Any help is appreciated.

hotmail / outlook / setting up email on MAC

14. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: email messages, hotmail, Outlook account
Hi  - I am having an issue setting up my hotmail / outlook account to my Macbook Pro

It keeps saying that the "server is unavailable" as well as not linking the email to my mac and I am not receiving my email messages - please let me know how I may fix this so I can link my email to my mac book.

thanks in advance!
 

hotmail / outlook / setting up email on MAC

14. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: email messages, hotmail, Outlook account
Hi  - I am having an issue setting up my hotmail / outlook account to my Macbook Pro

It keeps saying that the "server is unavailable" as well as not linking the email to my mac and I am not receiving my email messages - please let me know how I may fix this so I can link my email to my mac book.

thanks in advance!
 

Cannot sync Microsoft account (outlook.com) on my Lumia 920

13. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: microsoft, Microsoft account states, Outlook account
When looking in settings, my Microsoft account states, "Not up-to-date" which clearly means I don't get my e-mails.  I have troubleshot a variety of ways: double-checked my password, created an outlook account (which connected properly), tested it on a different lumia 920 (which connects properly), manually retyped the correct server name into that field (based on the working device's server name).  I've looked through everything I can think of and done everything I can think except wipe/rebuild...which I clearly don't want to do.  

Frustrated...rawr rawr rawr.  Any thoughts?

I sold my laptop with win 8 on Friday the 6th .new owwner deleted me as the admin.and my microsoft ,account and my outlook account went bye bye

12. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: microsoft, Outlook account
I cannot recover my primary account and I have had 3 chat sessions with microsoft and they send me a link to the solution but when I click on it,I get a message that my account is not the primary,so I can not get to a solution.my contact email for now is *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Email contact list stolen

12. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: contact list, Hotmail email, Outlook account
I want to report that my email account has been hacked into and my contact list stolen. I know this because some of my contacts have told me they've had spurious emails with links to websites in them. I have an outlook account with a hotmail email address. I normally access my email via Windows Live Mail. I have changed my password, reverified my account, and warned everyone on my contact list to delete any mail they receive from me that is of this spurious nature. I am concerned about what other personal information may have been stolen. 

Is there any particular person/group/company I should have reported this to?  

Security code rejected multiple times

12. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: Outlook account, security code

Tried verifying my Outlook account by sending a security code to an alternate, but the code hasn't worked despite doing it twice. Whether I type it out or copy and paste directly from the email, it makes no difference.

 

Any suggestions?

email change primary alias – what happens to old primary?

11. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: hotmail address, Outlook account
I posted this issue a few days ago. I got some replies, but they did not directly answer my question/issue. Then a site moderator locked the discussion and stated s/he would email me directly the answer within 24 hours. That did not happen. So I am asking again. I have read the help pages. So please do not merely repeat info from help pages. I have a Hotmail address (which MS has now converted to an Outlook account, although I still sign-in with my Hotmail address). Several months ago, I wanted to make a new primary alias and delete my original primary alias (the log-in, sign-in, email address I made when I opened the account, back in the years before aliases were available). A few months ago, it was not possible to delete the primary alias (or at least not the original email address that the account began with). Now the help pages seem to imply that we can change the primary alias and then even delete the former primary alias. If so, does that totally disassociate the deleted former primary alias (original email address used to create the account) from the account, so that all emails sent to that former primary (once deleted) never reach the account? Someone replied and asked why I want to delete my former primary alias, after I change the primary. That really isn't relevant to anyone else. I have my reasons. I want a direct answer from someone who knows about this issue, perhaps from someone who has been around for at least a year. When I first inquired a few months ago, an MS tech suggested I should just create a new email account, because at that time it was not possible to delete the original email address/alias that I used to originally create the current account. Is it really possible to do this now? (If so, apparently the email account is based on name and personal information and password, and not based mainly on the original email address that created the account.) Thanks in advance to anyone who can directly answer my questions.

I cannot access my Hotmail account.

10. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: Hi Brian, hotmail, Outlook account
It's done.


Hi Brian,

Glad you were able to merge Don's contacts into his Outlook account. I have updated my browser and followed instructions from other moderators and I am still unable to access my Hotmail contacts, folders or emails. Although, they have stated that they are in tact. Can you help me?

Marge

Lost hotmail folders

10. September 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: business Emails, hotmail, Outlook account, personal value
Hi there

I was hoping someone could help me. When my account was upgraded from Hotmail to Outlook I lost all of the folders connected to my Hotmail account. These contained some really important business emails, not to mention many of great sentimental and personal value.

I've tried the recovering deleted email option - however this only seems to work on deleted emails from Outlook, and also only goes as far back as July 2013. My Hotmail folders went back to 2003.

I had no reason to sign into my Hotmail account as it was already linked to my Outlook account, and I used to be able to access it through the drop down window relating to linked accounts. I just woke up one morning and this option had disappeared.

I really would be sincerely grateful if someone could help. I will be absolutely devastated if 10 years of this personal correspondence has been taken from me with no warning or reasonable amount of time to do something about it.

Many thanks.

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