"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
    2013-07-19T14:45:53+00:00

    Hi Macmellus,

    Please be informed that an existing Microsoft account cannot be added as an alias because an alias would be sharing the inbox of your primary account. An existing Microsoft account already has an inbox so it cannot be added as an alias, only third party accounts can be added as an alias, hence making this as a send only account.

    For Email Forwarding, when setting this up, it does not mean it would be created as an alias. You would just be forwarding your emails from account A to account B so that account B would receive account A's emails. But you would have to continue signing in to account A to keep this active.

    Please let us know if you have additional questions.

    Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-19T09:36:42+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 : (

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-07-19T06:20:40+00:00

    Also, in the article, what does this mean?;

    • Set up email forwarding, so you can read and write all your email from one account. Note: Normally you have to sign in to an account every 365 days to keep it active. Formerly-linked accounts are exempt from this requirement so you don't need to visit them regularly.

    Does this mean that these accounts will in effect be aliases of each other automatically? If so there's no problem, but otherwise this part doesn't make sense.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-07-19T06:15:20+00:00

    I know all this.

    You're still not telling me why I can't have an existing microsoft account as an alias.

    It doesn't make sense to say that if one account is hacked then the others are at risk. If I only use one account and that's hacked then I'm scuppered anyway.

    Thanks

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