"This email address is part of a reserved domain such as live.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com. Please enter a different email address"

Anonymous
2013-05-25T14:18:46+00:00

When trying to add my old Hotmail alias to my Outlook account, I get this message: "This email address is part of a reserved domain such as live.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com. Please enter a different email address."

How can I add my Hotmail account to my Outlook?

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Anonymous
2013-07-21T15:01:19+00:00

Hi,

As I understand you want to accounts to share one mailbox. Let me assist you on this.

If you have two Outlook.com accounts, you can’t add this as an alias for the other since they are already Microsoft account.

If your third party account was already registered as Microsoft account, you cannot also add this as alias. You can only add an existing email address as an alias if it is not yet registered as Microsoft account.

If you want to manage several accounts in one mailbox, you can use mail client like Windows Live Mail. You can also use Outlook.com to send and receive emails from other account that uses POP. You may check this link for more details and how to do this: Send and receive email from other accounts in Outlook.com

I hope this helps. Should you have further questions, please let us know.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-06-26T22:58:12+00:00

    Hello my problem is that I was having issues with my Hotmail account with 10 mail. so I tried to remove my Hotmail. alias by creating another first. the removed the hot mail one.  now my computer will not boot up completely because I used a system restore point which put my old alias in . And Microsoft no longer recognizes . the removed Hotmail account name. I tried to create it back in the alias area in my account on the web with another computer but I'm not allowed to, because of this message reserved domain. how can I reset my Hotmail alias now that it has been removed. so I can use my win 10 computer . please help

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-17T11:36:40+00:00

    Dear Support, 

    i am facing issue on my hotmail account please guide main on that, 

    what i did actually i have added my gmail account to Aliases and deleted current Hotmail ID, now i am able to login with gmail account to hotmail but cannot receive and send email through that ID .. and i am not even able to login with that ID.

    Please help me with that .. as this ID is very import to me.

    omar_******@hotmail.com (not Active)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-25T04:23:44+00:00

    I have a problem. I want to create account with @live.com but I am unable to do so. Through alias manager I can create @live.in account but not @live.com account.What to do to get @live.COM account.Please help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-08-01T05:05:25+00:00

    Okay. I've now read that bit properly. Was up late last night. It's still not the same, or any where near as convenient : (

    Welcome to the new MSFT! Removing convenience from you on a daily basis! 

    I'm a "Hotmail Plus" subscriber too. I love getting shafted for services I pay for,

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