Re: Hotmail spam

"jg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> 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...

HM did not 'notify' anyone about the change - you just found out about it 
when you tried to add another hm account to OE - then you got the message 
that ONLY paid hm accounts could be accessed from OE.

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