On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:17:38 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 01:44:23 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
> <snip> >> Tonight I brought the machine back installed passwords, telephone >> numbers, etc. All went fine, but... >> They were not using the provider with POP3 and SMTP for e-mail but: >> www.hotmail.com >> No way for Arachne... total lock up with switching off the mains as a >> remedy. How to explain this to your neighbours? >> Is there a way to use Arachne for hotmail? > The simple answer..... no. > Ever since MicroSoft took-over hotmail. > It now requires wincrap to access it. > See if they might be interested in using http://www.xms.ms/ for eMail. > POP3, SMTP and WebMail all work perfectly with ALL eMail clients > and ALL web browsers. > The only requirement for doing SMTP is that you first 'login' by doing > POP3 before attempting to do SMTP. > All of this also applies to http://www.myrealbox.com/ BTW, Hotmail is looked upon with great scorn by many sysadmins at US military bases and aboard ships. Service members are allowed to use some government computers on their own time for doing private email correspondence. In many cases they are allowed to access any web-based email service EXCEPT Hotmail. Hotmail causes problems for their computers so they say. Using government computers for doing Hotmail is prohibited on many US military installations and offices where accessing alternative web-based email services is allowed. Not all US military installations and offices prohibit Hotmail access by government computers, but many do. US service members should not use Hotmail because it is prohibited in many places where they might get assigned. I don't know if the military services of other countries have experienced having problems with their systems as a result of using Hotmail. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
