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[Archangel]

Would that still work if i used outlook? I've grown accustomed to it.

[Buffalobiian]

Would that still work if i used outlook? I've grown accustomed to it.

Yes.

Let Gmail access your hotmail (or other), then use Outlook to access your gmail.

Basically set the POP3 access to gmail, and IMAP

I can see one issue, and two potential ones, however.

The first one is that POP3 will allow you to access Gmail's inbox, but anything Gmail flags as spam will go straight to the SPAM box in Gmail. You'll have to log into gmail every now and again to fish out false positives (if any).

One potential problem that can be tricky revolves around the sending of emails (since I'm not sure how Outlook handles this). Ideally, you should set outlook to only retrieve emails from gmail only, and send emails with XX@hotmail.com only.

Lastly, Gmail access your hotmail account once every hour. Depending on the frequency that your own Outlook client syncs with gmail, that could delay your knowing of new mail.