Interviewed by CNN on 11/02/2012 19:28, sean nathan bean told the world: > further google searching reveals hotmail/live doesn't support imap at > all... my mistrust of all things google sent me back to microsoft > looking for an alternative... > > only to find, windows mail solutions still suck... c'est la vie...
Yeah, I had a look around too. Apparently they are deliberately holding on IMAP in order to push for their proprietary DeltaSync protocol. But I remembered I have an old Hotmail account I no longer use. I checked it -- yeah, it is still active. So I tried to set it up in Seamonkey according to these instructions: http://www.liveside.net/2009/03/13/pop3-technology-has-now-rolled-out-to-hotmail-customers-worldwide/ ...but actually, I just followed the SM new-account wizard and filled in the blanks. Turns out it download the messages with no problems using the default POP3 port 110, with no encryption. (Although that might have been my antivirus, Avast -- there's a gateway to live.com on port 995 that I don't remember setting up, so it might be that it auto-configures these gateways for known services, so I might be using SSL on port 995 without knowing it.) Manually changing the options for Connection Security SSL/TLS (port 995) didn't seem to cause any problems. I also set up SMTP on port 587 (with STARTTLS) and it worked fine, except for a message telling me to log on and do a CAPTCHA -- which I wasn't able to find. Now I remember why I never liked Hotmail... -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my IBM PC-XT. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.7 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
