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Windows Live Hotmail  & Messenger on your mobile

Windows Live Hotmail & Messenger on your mobile

Stay connected to your world with Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on your Vodafone mobile.

With Windows Live Hotmail you can send and receive emails on the go, keeping you in touch easily. And with Windows Live Messenger you can instant message your friends from your mobile any time.

Simply hit the Vodafone live! button on your mobile and click on the Hotmail or Messenger icons. And its really affordable – from $1 a day to get internet on your mobile, with up to 10MB allowance, & $1 per MB after the 10MB allowance is exceed that day. Or, if you are on a data plan you will be charged at that rate.

Never miss an important email again

Windows Live Hotmail TXT alerts let you know as soon as you receive an email by sending a TXT to your mobile- so you can keep up to date with your inbox when you're out and about.

You can customise Hotmail TXT alerts to your preferences, based on the sender's name, email address or keywords in the Subject, To or Cc line. For example, you may choose to only receive alerts for emails from your mum, your bank or Trade Me.

The Hotmail TXT service costs 20c to receive each TXT alert and 20c to reply by TXT. You cannot use TXTs included in your pricing plan or Add-Ons

Hotmail TXT alerts show you the start of an email and a link that takes you straight to Hotmail on your mobile so you can read the email in full. Standard data rates apply to use the internet on your mobile.

Other email commands

You can also manage your email by using commands in your TXT, by using the codes below. TXT the command below to the shortcode 8555 to perform the appropriate function. For example, to view your inbox TXT 'I' to 8555.

  • View Inbox — I
  • Compose an email — C (Recipient email address) (Type message)
  • Read an email — (Type message number) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.
  • Read more of an email — M
  • Reply to an email — R (Type message)
  • Delete an email — D
  • Forward an email — F (Recipient email address)
  • Read next email — N
  • Read previous email — P
  • Turn alerts off — STOP
  • Turn alerts on — A ON

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