Re: Hotmail spam

On Sun, 14 May 2006 08:56:49 +0200, Ejo wrote:

> 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 don't know whether this helps you, but, yahoo offers free mail 
> accounts as well, and, it allows forwarding plus pop3 access.

Not with a 'yahoo.com' account; you will need Yahoo! Mail Plus for
POP3/SMTP access and forwarding if your account is '@yahoo.com'.

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