Get yourself a better email service...for free. Try out www.fastmail.fm . Even the free accounts will bring your hotmail to you. You can choose to leave it on their servers, or bring into your local machine. Still free. Paid for accounts are even more powerful and more flexible.
Thank you. I have Outlook Express and SBC but I’ve been using Hotmail for so many years now. For professional purposes, I would use one of my other services.