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

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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

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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2014-11-17T12:28:07+00:00

I added an alias to my existing hotmail account trying to get away from spam but not lose all my emails. I made it my primary and then deleted my original hotmail account under alias now I cannot sign in (says trouble signing in) so I can't see any of my email and I can't log in using my old hotmail account. I tried adding that hotmail to my alias but it says This email is part of a reserved domain. Please enter a different email address.

When I try to log in with old hotmail account says doesn't exist...please tell me I haven't lost all my emails and can't get my emails coming in there now!!! PLEASE
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Anonymous

2014-10-29T12:17:48+00:00

OK look,

I have read most of this forum (as well as many others) and i cant seem to find the answer I am looking for.

What i want to know is, is it possible to link 3 hotmail accounts and move back and forth between them with a fair amount of ease. As i used to in hotmail when my accounts were linked.

Now, from what I have read, im getting the impression that microsoft have stopped this because it is unsafe. As, if one account gets breached, all the others are then too. Now, I completely understand this, however, am also greatly missing the ability to log in to one account and easily shift through the others.

So, solution. Why not just prompt me for the passwords of the other accounts as a try to shift to them. This way i can see all my other accounts from one account and they arent anymore vulnerable. Is something like this likely to be possible? Or am i doomed to manually signing in and out between them.
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Anonymous

2014-10-07T20:13:03+00:00

You have very stooped system setup for email now i understand why People complain all the time about Microsoft

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Anonymous

2014-07-21T01:51:09+00:00

Hi killperry,

Thank you for your posting your concern in Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are having issues with adding an alias to your account. The nature of the issue may contain personal or sensitive information of your account that can't be discussed in the forum, I suggest that this be addressed through a secured environment for your privacy and ease of access to our moderator's reply.

You can visit the link provided by Kristina S. in order to get help from our Microsoft account moderators.

Regards.
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