MCBastos wrote:
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...
i did get [email protected] to download mail once or twice into seamonkey,
but they want more frequent checkins to their webmail portal apparently...
thanks for taking time to poke around MC... i never used to like
hotmail... and i've never used it previosly... but thought i'd give the
new windowslive features a look see...
me no likeee
sean
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