This is excellent news! 2009/5/2 Maury Markowitz <[email protected]>
> > I realize this is a little OT, but I think many users here will find > this useful. > > As of late last month, MS has re-enabled POP3 access to Hotmail and > Live Mail. This means you can add your account to GMail's "accounts" > and get all your mail in Mailplane. > > The story here is a little amusing. Hotmail had been losing users to > GMail, as I'm sure you all know, so they came out with Live Mail to > try to improve things. However, Live Mail was paid for by advertising, > so if you used an offline reader like Mailplane you wouldn't be seeing > the ads and they wouldn't be making their money. So they turned off > POP3 and WebDAV access. > > The backlash was huge. Long time users who had been using Outlook > Express with Hotmail for many years were suddenly tossed off the > system. Then the iPhone came out, and everyone that was still using > Hotmail couldn't get their mail on the iPhone. Apparently there was a > rush for the exits. > > So now we have Hotmail in Mailplane. Why do I care? Because now that > all of my mail has been copied into GMail, I can close down my Live > Mail account for good. Their spam checking is utterly useless, and 90% > of all mail I get there is spam. But I couldn't close down my account > because I had about 1000 messages of "historical interest". > > I'm sure many of you are in a similar situation, so go for it! > > Maury > > > -- Richard Sheppard Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Acquia Silver Partner http://acquia.com/partners/showcase/silicon-meadow LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/RichardSheppard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
