Taking Advantage of Hotmail Automatic Replies

Hotmail automatic replies can be used by users of this service for different purposes. Usually this feature is applied, however, when one needs to stay somewhere abroad or does not have a possibility to access one's email account. After all, it is sometimes needed to spend a bit of time without internet, and it would be better to notify your colleagues and friends, in case if they will write. So, with the help of the instructions provided below, you will be able to set up automatic replies and notify your interlocutors about your temporary absence.

1. Begin the procedure by entering the MSN website, the link of which is the following one: http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   You can take advantage of Hotmail automatic replies by starting the entire procedure on the MSN page
2. Choose Outlook.com among other applications on the website, as depicted in the screenshot. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Access your account by entering your email address on this page and typing your password on the following page
3. That action will lead you to Outlook's main webpage, where you will have a need to enter your Hotmail address. After doing so, click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Click on this button for advancing further to the page of your Hotmail account
4. On the next page, you need to provide your password in a respective field and click on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   You can access the page of Hotmail automatic replies directly in the mail settings menu, without a necessity to enter the menu of options
5. Immediately after completing those actions, you will get to see the inbox of your Hotmail account. You should click on the mail settings button, prompting a menu of settings to be opened. In that menu, click on "Automatic replies." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Once you have set up your automatic reply, click on the "OK" button
6. On the right, you will get to see a window of Hotmail automatic replies. Actually, you should start setting up your automatic reply there. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You are always able to view and change your Hotmail automatic replies by accessing its page through the menu of options
7. First of all, check the box near "Send automatic replies." Then, check the box near "Send replies only during this time period", if you don't want the replies to be sent constantly. Specify the period when the replies should be sent, then. Below, there will be three options of what the system should do, acting in the name of your account. Check or uncheck certain boxes. Below, there will be two more lines. Choose whether you want the automatic reply to be sent to anyone who sends you a letter or only to those people who are included in your contact list. After all, set up an automatic reply in the window, placed at the bottom of the page. All features of formatting are available. Click on the "OK" button upon the completion of this procedure.
8. You will be able to access and view your automatic reply anytime by going to "Mail" > "Automatic processing" > "Automatic replies." The settings of your automatic replies can be changed anytime as well.

Arranging Hotmail Junk Mail Settings

If you want to avoid many unnecessary actions regarding managing your Hotmail account, you should configure the Hotmail junk mail settings. This will help you to manage spam mail as well as to avoid situations when letters from important people appear to be moved to a spam folder. Just follow our instructions and make sure that you will face no accidental errors.

1. You should start by entering the website of MSN: http://msn.com/. Once you have accessed the website, find the Outlook app in the menu of Microsoft apps and click on it. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   You should pick Outlook.com among other MSN apps
2. That action will lead you to the main page of Outlook, where you will have to enter your email address. Click on the "Next" button. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Enter your email address and access the Hotmail account
3. On the next page, you should type your password in the provided field. Click on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Type your password in this field in order to proceed further
4. After it you will access your Hotmail account, where you have to click on the "Mail settings" button (look at the image). In the pop-up menu you have just triggered, click on "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Access Hotmail junk mail settings by giving a click to this button
5. On the left, you will notice a large menu of settings. Go to the section of "Mail" > "Junk email." That's where you have to configure your settings. 
   
   
   
   
   
   In this section of the settings menu, you are able to manage hotmail junk mail settings
6. In the section of "Blocked senders", you can add certain domains or single email addresses, and so you will not receive messages from them. For instance, if you block domain john123.com, you will receive no messages from any email addresses, ending with @john123.com (such as info@john123.com, puerto@john123.com, etc.). Once you have added all domains and email addresses you wanted, click on "Save." 
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   If you want not to miss a message from any mailing list, you should add the list into this window
8. The next step is arranging your mailing lists, if you need it. If you want to receive emails from certain mailing lists (usually, ads or promotions), add them in this window: enter a mailing list in the given line and click on "+." Once you are done with adding mailing lists, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   In order to avoid messages from important people to be moved to the spam folder, add those contacts to your safe senders
9. Subsequently, start configuring the "Safe senders" section. Sometimes, emails coming from real people might be moved to a spam folder by the robots. In order to avoid this issue with the letters sent by important people, add them to the list of safe senders by adding domains and/or emails in the given field and clicking on "+." Once you have listed all safe senders, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Here, you can configure Hotmail junk mail settings
10. The last section to configure is "Filters and reporting", where you can change three main settings. The first setting determines what filter you want to use (standard is applied by default) – "Exclusive" filter means that most of mails will go to a spam folder, so be careful with this setting. "Share reports" allows you to choose whether you want to notify the people who sent you a message that you don't want to receive messages from them. The last setting allows you to choose where links, pictures, and attachments will be displayed (in what letters). After configuring it, click on "Save."
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12. https://howtocreateaccounts.weebly.com/
13. https://outlook.live.com/owa/

How to Use Hotmail Inbox Rules

Hotmail inbox rules allow the users of this email service to avoid lots of unnecessary mess and headache with spam, important letters, letters from friends, and similar stuff. Basically, you just add certain conditions that apply to all letters in your inbox, and some of those letters (that match the conditions) will be moved/deleted/pinged or whatever you action you will set. There is no need to say that such an approach highly "automatizes" the way you are running your email, and you will spend fairly less time on managing your Hotmail account. Look how to create the filters right below!

1. MSN, Microsoft's website, is the place where the entire story begins, and you need to access it by going to http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   Prior you will be able to utilize Hotmail inbox rules, you should access your Outlook account
2. There, you will get to see lots of apps produced by Microsoft, yet Outlook.com will be the first app in the list. You need to click on the icon of it. 
   
   
   
   
   
   The field for entering your Hotmail address looks like this
3. Doing so will redirect you to the main webpage of Outlook, where you will see a field for email address. Enter your Hotmail address right there and proceed further by giving a click to the "Next" button. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You need to give a click to this button after providing a password in the field above
4. The next page will require you to enter the password, which should be followed by a click on the blue button. 
   
   
   
   
   
   This menu will be triggered once you have pressed on the mail settings button
5. Now, you have just entered the Hotmail account of yours. On the page of the inbox, you should find several buttons in the right-upper corner. Click on the button of mail settings and trigger a menu, in which you should choose "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   You need to click on this "+" button in order to add a Hotmail inbox rule
6. The menu of options will appear on the left, and you should go to "Mail" > "Automatic processing" > "Inbox and sweep rules." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This way looks the window for adding Hotmail inbox rules
7. On this page, you will be able to add any rules anytime you wish and as many as you wish. The difference of sweep rules from inbox rules is that sweep rules run from time to time, whereas inbox rules are constantly working. Let's try to create an inbox rule. 
   
   
   
   
   
   All your Hotmail inbox rules will be always displayed on this page, which you can access by opening the menu of options
8. Click on the "+" button. You will see a window for rules to be opened. At first, give a name to your rule. Then, set a condition (or conditions), according to which the letters have to be sorted. If one condition is not enough, you can add more by clicking on "Add condition." Then, do the same in the field below, yet you specify what action will be done to the sorted letters, there. The third field allows you to add exceptions, i.e. the letters matching both the conditions and exceptions will not be a subject to the actions. After all, give a click to "OK".
9. In the provided example, the system will move all letters with the words "paradise" or "world" to a junk folder. If a letter with such the words will come from myfather@outlook.com (an exception), they will not be moved to a junk folder. That's the way these rules are run. You can find all the rules that you have ever added on the page of inbox rules.
10. Source: https://outlook.live.com/owa/

How to Take Advantage of Hotmail Categories

If you have to use your email address quite often, i.e. many times per day, maybe you might be glad to enable a feature that will make your life and experience of using your email address easier and more convenient. One such feature is called "Hotmail categories", which allows you to sort your mail into different folders, such as newsletters, promotions, bills, travel, etc. Moreover, there are personal categories, painted in different colors, which you are able to use the way you wish. In particular, you can add certain filters for adding mail to those categories, once the letters match certain conditions. All in all, there are great opportunities for automatization of your Hotmail account, and this guide shows how to take advantage of the feature of Hotmail categories.

1. The first step you should make is to launch the browser and go to the MSN website: http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Start arranging your Hotmail account by accessing the website of MSN and clicking on the Outlook.com app
2. On that page, you will find a menu of Microsoft apps, and you should click on the app of Outlook.com. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You should advance further and access your Outlook account by providing your email address and clicking on "Next"
3. Following that action, you will get to see the main webpage of Outlook. In the center of that page, there will be a field, in which you should enter your Outlook (or Hotmail, in other words) address. Upon the completion of it, click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Entering the password and hitting the "Sign in" button is the last step prior to accessing your Hotmail account
4. Those actions should be followed by entering the password on the next page and clicking on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   After you have opened the menu of options, you get an opportunity to take advantage of the feature of Hotmail categories
5. You will get to see the page of your account on Hotmail after doing so, and there you should click on the button of mail settings (look at the screenshot, if you are struggling to find it). In the menu that you have just triggered, choose "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This is the appearance of the page of Hotmail categories, and you can turn the feature on and add/edit the categories here
6. Once the menu of options has been opened on the left, you should go to "Mail" > "Layout" > "Categories." That is the page for arranging your categories in Hotmail.
7. If you want a certain category to be displayed in your folder pane or to be available in filters, check the respective box(es). If you want to create and utilize your own categories, we highly recommend you to scroll down to personal categories (you can't edit Outlook categories or add any more categories to them) and create new categories by clicking on "+." Whereas you can't rename "Blue category", "Green category", and so on, you will be able to add a name while creating another category. After the completion of this process, click on "Save" (at the top).
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9. https://howtocreateaccounts.weebly.com/
10. https://outlook.live.com/owa/
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Configuring Hotmail Automatic Processing

For the sake of simplicity and convenience, you might need to customize your Hotmail automatic processing settings. Even though it might sound a bit complicated and even scary, it will not take more than a couple of minutes of your precious time, if you will follow the guidelines of ours.

1. In order to configure the settings of Hotmail automatic processing, first access Outlook by going to http://msn.com/ and choosing Outlook.com among other Microsoft apps. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   If you want to customize the settings of Hotmail automatic processing, you need to access Outlook first
2. After you have got to see the main page of Hotmail, type your Hotmail address in the field on the Hotmail page and click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Accessing your Hotmail account implies providing your email address and password
3. Provide your password by entering it in the respective field and click on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Type your password here and click on the blue button
4. As you have accessed your account, click on the button of mail settings (have a look at the screenshot). There, you should give a click to "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   In this place, you can access the menu of settings
5. In the large menu located on the left, you have to go to "Mail" > "Automatic processing." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Here, you can start configuring the settings of Hotmail automatic processing
6. Let us begin with the section of "Undo send." Access that page. There, you can turn on the feature of undo send, which lets you cancel the letter you've just sent to someone. It is possible to cancel the letter within a period of time up to 30 seconds. In order to turn it on, place a tick near "Let me…" and choose the period when you can cancel a letter. After it, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This page allows you to configure when the letters in your inbox will be marked as read
7. Now, go to the "Mark as read" section. Here, you can customize the settings about what letters and when should be marked as read. After customizing the settings, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   On this page, you can configure the settings of message options
8. Access the section of "Message options." On this page, you can opt what to do after deleting or moving a certain letter, whether a sound should be played upon arrival of a new letter, whether notification should be displayed upon arrival of a new letter, and whether to clean the folder of deleted items after you have just signed out. Check or uncheck certain fields and click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   You can allow (or not) the system to respond to the requests of your interlocutors for read receipts
9. Move to the "Read receipts" section. Here, you can specify how the system should respond to the requests of your interlocutors to see read receipts (whether you have read the messages they have sent or not). After choosing a certain option, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Here, you can opt whom will you reply in the reading pane
10. Go to the section of "Reply settings." By default, this setting is set as "Reply all." If a sender, for example, sends a message not only to you, but to a few or more people at the same time, you will reply not only to him, but to the others as well. If you want to reply only to him in such a case, check "Reply." Click on the "Save" button.

Changing Layout of Your Hotmail Account

It is far better to use carefully and personally customized Hotmail account than a raw version of it that you get right after signing up for the service. This short, step-by-step guide will show you how to arrange the layout settings of your Hotmail account, whereas those settings allow you to make your inbox be tailored exactly for you.

1. You should start the entire procedure of changing the layout of your account by going to http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   You need to access your Hotmail account first
2. Among other Microsoft apps, you should give a click to Outlook.com. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Enter your email address and click on "Next"
3. Then, you will get to see the main page of Outlook, where you have to type your email address in the given field and click on the "Next" button. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Type your password in this field and click on "Sign in" for accessing your Hotmail account
4. Continue by entering the password of your account and clicking on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Go to the „Options" of your account in order to change the layout
5. That will lead to the accession of your account, and you should click on the button of mail settings in the right-upper corner. In the pop-up menu, give a click to "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   In this section of the menu of options, you are able to change the layout of your Hotmail account
6. On the left, you will get to see a quite large menu of options. There, you should go to "Mail" > "Layout." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This page allows you to make the font of your letters different than the standard version
7. The first section to customize is "Conversations." There, you have got two settings to change. The first setting allows you to choose where the newest messages should be displayed: on bottom or on top. The second setting allows you to choose whether deleted items should be displayed or not. After specifying these settings, click on the "Save" button. 
   
   
   
   
   
   The feature of quick actions makes your account more functional and easy-to-use
8. Then, go to the "Message format" section. Choose whether you want your letters to be written in the HTML format or in plain text. After all, you can customize the font of your letters: you are given to choose from more than 30 different font styles, as well as you can customize the size, color, and typical 3 main Microsoft Word settings (bold, italic, underline). Click on "Save." In the section of "Link previews", you can allow (or not) links in the letters you receive/send to be previewed. In the section of "Message list", you can customize how this list has to be displayed. Don't forget to click on "Save" after the chance in each of the categories. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You can customize the reading pane of your account up to how you like
9. Go to the section of "Quick actions." You can add or change buttons that you will get to see when composing your letters. There are 6 buttons overall. After customizing, click on "Save."
10. And the last section is "Reading pane." Here, you can customize how will your reading pane look like. The first setting allows you to place the reading pane on the right, at the bottom, or hide it at all. The second setting allows you to choose what items to open after deleting/moving the actual item. The third setting allows you to choose where to respond to emails. The last setting lets you choose what you get to read right after signing in. After specifying, click on "Save."
11. More information on how to create a Hotmail account.

Arranging Hotmail General Setting

Even though it is typically important to configure privacy and security settings at first, you should also think about arranging Hotmail general settings for the sake of comfortability and convenience. If you spend just a bit of your time on this matter, you will be able to make your account more functional and easy-to-use. Find out more about it right below.

1. Begin the procedure with accessing the MSN website: http://msn.com/. On the page, give a click to the icon of Outlook. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Start the entire process with accessing your Hotmail account
2. After you have got to see the main page of Outlook, enter your Hotmail login (email) in the field, placed in the center of that page. Then, click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Enter your login in order to access your account
3. The next step is entering your password. Type it in the provided field and click on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Type your password in this field and proceed further
4. Immediately after completing that action, you should get access to your Hotmail account. Click on the button of mail settings in the right-upper corner, thus triggering a pop-up menu. In that menu, give a click to "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   You should start configuring your Hotmail general settings by going to "Options"
5. The menu of settings will be located on the left. There, you should go to General settings. Among them, choose the "Keyboard shortcuts" settings first. 
   
   
   
   
   
   This image shows where and what Hotmail general settings you should configure
6. On this page, you are able to choose what shortcuts (or whether you want to) to use, which makes the use of your email far faster and easier. After choosing the option you want, click on "Save" at the top of the page. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Keyboard shortcuts might make your experience of using Hotmail far easier
7. Click on "Manage add-ins" in the menu leftside. Basically, these are additional features that could be added to your account. Primarily, you should have 4 or 5 add-ins to be automatically installed. In order to choose and add more add-ins, click on "Find more add-ins…" at the top. On the website that will be opened in your browser, you can browse and find add-ins you want and add them by clicking on the "Add" button near each add-in. Once you have configured all, click on "Save." 
   
   
   Built-in add-ins from Outlook allow you to add more features to your Hotmail
8. Go to "Mobile devices". On this page, you can add your mobile number, using which you can access and synchronize with your Hotmail account. Click "Edit" and so. After completing the procedure, click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   In order to make the use of Hotmail easier and more comfortable, you are able to add mobile devices here
9. Go to "Offline settings". Place a tick near "Turn on", if you want to configure settings of your Hotmail account offline. Click on "Save." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Turning this setting on will allow you to apply new settings to your Hotmail account offline
10. Go to "Region and time zone". Here, just specify your language, date format, time format, and the actual time zone. After doing so, click on "Save." 
    
    
    
    
    
    In this page, you can configure the settings of the time zone and your region