Anyone else having problems with Hotmail?

[twosoups1972]

Having problems getting Hotmail to work on my iMac. It works fine on my iPhone and other websites are ok on the iMac, it just the combination that seems cause problems.

Any advice please?

Honestly?

Set up a gmail account. Use that instead. Hotmail is so slow as to be unusable on the majority of modern computers.

If I transfer to gmail, will my emails be re-directed automatically?

They have been having problems and have said they are working on it. Emails I send to hotmail addresses have been bouncing back as undeliverable. Hopefully it will be sorted soon.

I tried to log in to Outlook about half an hour ago and it said there was a problem.

I don't understand, it seems to work ok on my phone...?

Hotmail is so slow as to be unusable on the majority of modern computers

Really? I have a hotmail account and it 's fine on my computer, admittedly I haven't tried it on lots of other computers but mine is a modern one. In what way is it slow?

What computer do you have @PleasantVille?

Whenever I see Hotmail address I know my work email will end up in the spam folder. Gmail is really good, I use the calendar and can share documents with my partner like our wedding invite list, so he can alter nd we both see the most up to date one. You can set up an auto forward so your hotmail emails go in to your gmail. I did it when I transferred from Yahoo years ago.

That's interesting @Glendaruel I'm not too fussed about the calendar etc but I would like to use my email without waiting around for hours waiting for it to load! Is it easy to set up? I am VERY un-techy.

I'm completely untechy and managed it!!

Right I've done it, set up Gmail!

But now I'm having problems transferring from Hotmail to Gmail. Just googled instructions and it says there should be 'email settings' under settings. But it's not there!

This is what I’ve got under settings

Can you have folders on gmail?