Re: Hotmail spam

  N. Miller wrote:
> 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 use Thunderbird and I pop my hotmail into it.

You need the webmail 1.0.5 and webmail hotmail 0.10.7 extentions.

There are extensions also for yahoo and gmail.