Re: Hotmail spam

On Sun, 14 May 2006 06:45:33 -0400, Jim 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 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.

You can't _POP_ MSN Hotmail. Period. You can use third party kludges to
_HTTP_ your Hotmail; for as long as the kludges work with MSN Hotmail.
They rely on HTTP tricks. The Post Office Protocol just won't work.

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Norman
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