Re: Hotmail spam

"N. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
> -- 
> Norman
> ~Oh Lord, why have you come
> ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum


Norman, you have a good understanding of Hotmail.  I think there is so much 
confusion about POP because Hotmail and Yahoo can _fetch_ mail from POP 
mailboxes.  Not at all the same as _being_ POP mailboxes.