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A web based email service operated by Microsoft, Windows Live Hotmail or just Hotmail features calendars, contacts, security measures, 5GB expandable storage space and incorporated with Windows Live Messenger.

Hotmail allows us to create single or multiple calendars with different permission levels and with different view modes such as weekly, monthly, daily. You can organize, schedule appointments, set reminders, and you can tell people when you will be busy and when you will be free by sharing the information.

How to Share a Personal Calendar in Hotmail

There are two options available for the hotmail users for sharing their calendar with others.

Sharing Calendar with a Single Person:

1. Sign into your account and click the ‘Options’ button on the top right hand corner.
2. On the left side of the page ‘Calendar’, click on the third link.
3. Clink on the ‘calendar Options’. Choose the ‘Manage Shared Calendars’ and click on it.
4. Click on the link titled ‘Share Your Calendar.’
5. Type the email address of the person with whom you want to share the calendar. If you did not remember, you can choose from ‘My Contacts’ list. Scroll down and click on ‘Next.’
6. Select the information you want to display for the person. Select whether you want to display all the appointment details or just the timings when you will be free and when you will be busy. And click ‘Next.’
7. With a personal note which is not mandatory, click ‘Finish’ and the ‘Ok.’

Sharing Calendars with Everyone:

1. Follow the same procedure till you choose the option ‘Manage Shared Calendars.’
2. Click the link called ‘Publish Your Calendar’ that enables others to see your calendar.
3. Choose the appointment information you want to display and copy down the link, which acts as a website allowing everyone to view your calendar.
4. Save changes.

If a user has multiple emails accounts and wishes to check all his accounts from the hotmail account it is perfectly possible with the features provided in Hotmail. In this way the user do not have to access different accounts to check the email he or she might have received from desired contacts.

Checking Process

Logging on to the Hotmail Account the user should click on the “options” button and then go on to “send and receive mail from other email accounts”. Next he or she would select “add a POP3 account”. Thereafter entering the settings for the new email account it has to be saved. In result the mails from other accounts will get transported to the Hotmail account. It depends on the user whether the messages so received would be retained or forwarded or even deleted.

Points to Check out

It is absolutely necessary that the other email account from which the messages are being transferred has the ability to forward mails to the Hotmail account. Otherwise the “forward to Hotmail” option may also work for the users. Going to the email account that the user desires to check out he or she should open it. Thereafter selecting the “options” tab they could also select “email forwarding”. When prompted, the Hotmail account address has to be entered in the box provided and thereafter the user would select the option “forward”. Mails can be forwarded and stored or deleted on the server.

Warnings for users

When the user does not desire logging on to the accounts from which the emails are being forwarded to Hotmail account, they should select the option “Forward and Delete”. Necessity of this step is as a precautionary measure to prevent your inbox being filled with emails from the other account.