I know this is about using outlook, but you may want to consider Thunderbird
as an alternative. It's free and it's a pretty darn good replacement for
Outlook.

Currently Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos (Europe), MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero, and AOL
domains are supported.



"Eddie" wrote in message
...
I have Office 2000 installed on my laptop and I am trying to link hotmail
to
my mail service. I am not able to import my hotmail account or send
messages and would like guidance on how I can get this set up. I am using
a
cable connection, thanks for the help!