Re: Hotmail spam

N. Miller wrote:
> 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'.
> 

Ok, then take a @yahoo.co.uk account. Under mail options -> management 
-> pop access and forwarding you find what I mean. The premium service 
offers more storage, spam filtering etc etc.