Re: Hotmail spam

N. Miller wrote:

> MSN Hotmail does not have POP3 servers. You access Hotmail accounts by
> using a client with HTTPMail.

Yes.

> Only MS Outlook, and MS Outlook Express
> have the capability of HTTPMail access; no other client, not even
> Thunderbird, can access a Hotmail account.

by http mail.

But Tbird can access webmail accounts, including Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos,
MailDotCom, Gmail, Libero,  & AOL using its plugin described at
http://webmail.mozdev.org/

There's also a forum for discussing at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=207024  Hotmail / Yahoo
Extension Beta Testing

> And then only for MSN
> Hotmail Plus accounts, or those older Hotmail accounts which were
> grandfathered.

That's a good description of the hotmail httpmail situation.

I didn't know about the Tbird webmail extension until I was reading
about hotmail httpmail in wikipedia just now.  That wiki is amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail  While Hotmail does not have POP3
email access, it is possible to check one's own e-mail using Microsoft
Outlook and Outlook Express on PC and Microsoft Entourage on Mac, using
the WebDAV protocol and an extention for Mozilla Thunderbird [5]


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin