Much as hate this and I hate hotmail... this actually works! Which amazes me... and yes gmail will still be my e-mail of choice so dont even mention it.

You can even put your settings back to NZ afterwards!


1) at your settings just go to private and change your city. now you com from US, California with ZIP code 94102.
2)now if you quit your account and with that i mean go to this page http://memberservices.passport.net/memberservice.srf and close your account there.
3) go to the login page and login with your old username and password.
4) choose wich mail-offers you want to receive and stay clicking still you reach your account.
5) now you got 25MB and your account doesn't lose its mail.

wikkid, I'm a bit nervous to close my account though. my little borther managed to get 250mb by signing up to hotmail.com.au somehow. I'm not sure how that worked.

You hate hotmail yet you go to the effort to a) find out this information and B ) try it out....

:shrugs:

Further reading says after 30 days you get the 250Mb

Aaah but only because someone is selling the information here on trademe!!!

So I did a google search... tested it ... and then asked the seller whether it was the information at the site I found it on.

Think I should ask him on every auction he's running?

If he's like me, he keeps his hotmail account around because some people still have that address.

Yea no doubt he keeps his hotmail for his secret drug or sex orders :P

I see why u get 25mb:

Yeah thought as much. So I wonder what happens if you change your details back. I'll let you now in 30 days

So if I do this I won't lose my emails? I have like 800 and really don't want to lose them. However it means my inbox is like 70% full all the time which is a pain in the ass, especially with 100kb+ spam mail.

All mail untouched. Cross my heart (if I had one)

Youre without a heart? explains a lot... especially the pale skin :naughty:

i did that ages ago :)

Just get gmail man.

yahoo.com.au's given me 1Gb. More than that is excessive.

I have more than enough room on yahoo.. I generally sit on 0%-1% even with heaps of emails in my inbox

Awesome, thanks for the info, I'll immediately fix up my shit on Hotmail.

Hopefully I'm talking for more than myself here when I say that I am stuck using Hotmail for so many things, and my attempts to migrate to Gmail are never going to get past 50% of my e-mails.

I generally use my hotmail account for whenever I need to give something my email address but don't want to get spam in my gmail account.

As a result, I get no spam in my gmail (well, none that gets past the spam filtering, and even that gets very little) and I don't care how much I get in my hotmail because I check it infrequently... I don't get much in there anyway.

That thing didn't work, Old Man Wisdom! I changed it to California and it never gave me the option after following those instructions sadly :(

did you do the delete your account and then recreate it thingy?

Despite Hotmail's 25Mb, I still stick to Gmail (because 2.6Gb whoops arse). I just use Hotmail for MSN; no more, no less.

Both Hotmail and Yahoo are trialing new gmail'esque interfaces so it'll be an interesting year this year as more users are allowed access to them. Finally competition is back in the webmail market! Personally I still keep all my email on my local machine, I don't like the lack of easy backup for webmail providers.

Is that what you need to do? I don't want to risk my entire account though... I didn't realise that's what you guys meant before. I use my hotmail account pretty heavily.

yeah thats why I haven't done it yet