Couple of thoughts. Hotmail is now rolling out free POP and SMTP servers country by country. If you reside in on the countries where they are now available you should use these servers. (Current list: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands)
To set up Hotmail using the free servers see this post: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1095465 If you wish to continue trying to get the Hotmail extension to work then for your Hotmail account to be seen by the Hotmail extension you must make sure that in the Server Settings panel of the Hotmail account in Thunderbird you have entered the User Name in full ... for example ... [email protected] On Mar 3, 2:03 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've found several of simular topics but non yet replied. > I'm having the exact same problem, makes me think the plugins are > outdated or smt. > If anyone has an answer on how to fix, there will be many people > gratefull. > > On 21 feb, 09:54, Feanor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Folks, > > > I haveThunderbird2.0.0.19 (20081209), and I downloaded ('save as') > > Webmail add-on 1.3.2, and then used the Tools->Add-on->Install feature > > to install the Webmail .xpi. I've managed to setup the IMAP, POP and > > SMTP servers and green buttons appear at the bottom ofThunderbird. > > > I downloaded similarly and installed theHotmailadd-on 1.2.21, but > > again donotsee any options for configuring aHotmailaccount. I > > tried selecting theHotmailadd-on in the Add-on window->Options but > > that just said that noHotmailaccount wasfound. Where do I find the > > "communication method the extension will use to connect to Microsoft's > > servers", as described in thehttp://webmail.mozdev.org/screenshots.html > > page? Is there something else that needs enabling first? > > > Thanks, > > F. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
