"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
    2013-08-01T13:57:12+00:00

    Hi etacarinae1,

    We are sorry for the inconvenience about that.

    Please submit your feedback to this link below if you want to share your thoughts and opinion about that feature that is no longer available in this new Outlook.com.

    Microsoft- Talk to us

    If you have further questions, please let us know.

    Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-12T23:53:43+00:00

    i have problem with this what i need to do ?

    You can't add an alias with the domain windowslive.com. Try an email address that has a different domain.  ?

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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
    2014-07-15T18:26:57+00:00

    Where is my original Hotmail email address???  Not only can I not receive emails, now when I send an email, it is being sent from a different email address other than Hotmail.  On top of that, my new Hotmail address, "Outlook.com" has lost all of my contacts from my original Hotmail email address, as well as all my folders.  I want separate email addresses.

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