"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
    2013-08-01T06:45:12+00:00

    @ Mel,

    I'm glad to hear that your issue was sorted. You can simply mark the post as an Answer and the credit will go that moderator.

    @ etacarinae1,

    You've reached Microsoft Community forum. In order for us to assist you better with your issue, kindly provide a detailed description of your concern along with any error message that you might have encountered. This will give us an idea of what is the exact resolution will be going to provide you.

    We look forward to hearing from you.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2013-07-22T03:24:42+00:00

    Brilliant Ronaldo! You're the first moderator to actually get what I'm on about. I've done alll that in the link and tested and it all works. I'd like to give you another gold star. How do I do that?

    Thanks,

    Mel.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-07-20T23:42:08+00:00

    Well it still doesn't make any sense to me. Third party accounts all have inboxes as well, don't they?

    Regarding what you say about email forwarding, This is exactly why it's no good for me and why I'm wanting my other addresses as aliases.

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