Boy, the lengths people will travel so that they're perpetually connected. I have a hard enough time with the email that arrives on my office computer, let alone having email on my cellphone!
But you probably don't care about that, and I can't blame you.
To answer your question I did some digging around on various Microsoft Web sites and found out that the site NineMSN has lots of good information and Q&A about Mobile services, IM, SMS, and, yes, Hotmail.
Their recommendation is that the only command you really need to remember is help: send H to your Hotmail service number and the response should be a nice list of commands.
Not enough? Here's a full list:
| Command | Explanation |
| A ON | Set all alerts to ON status |
| A OFF | Set all alerts to OFF status |
| I | See all unread email messages in your inbox |
| IA | See all messages, unread or otherwise, in your inbox |
| Msg # | The specific message you want to read (replace the "#" with a message number, like "3" or "17" or, if you're a glutton for punishment and have a HUGE inbox, "34324") |
| C quickname message |
Send a message to the person you specify. Quicknames are friendly names you assign to contacts in your Hotmail Address Book. If you are not using Hotmail quicknames, you can use the person's email address instead. |
| M | Read more of the current message |
| R message |
Reply to the current email with the specified message |
| RA message |
Same as R, but copies the original email message in the response too. |
| D # | Delete the specified message. |
| F quickname |
Forward the current email to the specified quickname or email address. |
| N | Show the next email message in your inbox |
| P | Show the previous email message in your inbox |
| H | Send help message |
Got all that? If your wallet has space, you can also print out a handy pocket reference (PDF) from Microsoft.
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