Re: Hotmail spam

"N. Miller" <[email protected]> Sun, 14 May 2006 14:14:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.user
Organization Sahara Specific Lumbar Co., Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 14 May 2006 13:37:04 +1000, Petzl wrote:

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

>> 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.

> Of course SpamCop email will download from your hotmail account for 
> automatic sorting of legit mail from spam
> http://www.spamcop.net/ces/individuals.shtml
> I just use SpamCop Email's IMAP to drag spam to my VER page for reporting

That would be an HTTP access, not a POP3 access. You can use any browser
to get into an MSN Hotmail account. You can use third party HTTP kludges
to pull email from an MSN Hotmail account. Only MSFT written mail
clients can access an MSN Hotmail account natively, using WebDAV.

-- 
Norman
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