Maury says that his account is one of the old WebDav accounts. In this case, he would be best to use the WebDav option in the Hotmail extension,at least until Hotmail finally turn WebDav off. POP and SMTP settings will still be needed for Thunderbird and the extension to communicate with each other. If Maury is using Windows, these can be left at default settings.
alanrf wrote: > These extensions to Thunderbird exist to provide conversion of emails > delivered via html (in a Web browser) to/from POP/SMTP which is the > communication method needed by Thunderbird. Yes, they are effectively > scaping HTML and the POP/SMTP settings are essential to allow the > extension to communicate with Thunderbird. > > As far as Thunderbird is concerned these extensions are acting as POP > and SMTP servers. > > On Oct 16, 12:48 pm, Maury Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Sorry if this is a double post, I'm not sure if my last one went >> through... >> >> I'm trying to download my entire Hotmail account for backup on my >> local machine. I have one of the older WebDAV accounts, but can't >> figure out how that helps me. Someone suggested I tried Webmail, so >> here I am. >> >> When I looked over the instructions I saw lots of screens and setup >> for POP and SMTP. So then I thought that Webmail was simply another >> POP client. POP is turned off on Hotmail, so that's out. >> >> But then I saw threads here that had debug logs that seem to have HTML >> in it. So now I'm confused. Is Webmail a HTML scraper, or POP client? >> >> If it is an HTML scraper, what is all the POP and SMTP setup for? >> >> Maury >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.1/1730 - Release Date: 10/17/2008 > 8:07 AM > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" 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/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
