Re: Hotmail spam

On 5/13/2006 8:15 PM N. Miller scribbled:

> On Sat, 13 May 2006 19:39:47 -0700, jg wrote:
> 
>> I don't use OE - what does this mean - hotmail shut off OE??  OE is an
>> email client - yes?
> 
> MSN Hotmail does not have POP3 servers. You access Hotmail accounts by
> using a client with HTTPMail. Only MS Outlook, and MS Outlook Express
> have the capability of HTTPMail access; no other client, not even
> Thunderbird, can access a Hotmail account. And then only for MSN Hotmail
> Plus accounts, or those older Hotmail accounts which were grandfathered.
> 
I posted last msg before reading this.  I'm not aware of the hotmail
idiosyncrasies - never received any email from a hotmail account either,
for that matter.  I've always thought hotmail to be just another freebie
email address...