For Last Months, Email Warnings to change settings for Hotmail by 1st Sept 2009, to be able still access them, after 1st sept, just went over my head, assuming any changes will will be born into another version of this Webmail extension. However, now, on the 2nd of Sept, I cannot access Hotmail, via Wemail, saying Negative Vibes. I looked at the last warning, which said to access have to do one of three things. I get the impression may be limited to only getting it via POP not IMAP.
I appologise, as I have not looked further than a few posts, if this has been covered before, but I will Post 2 Items, Below. 1> Last email Received, with instructions on, and links. >2 One of the links with instructions with POP/SMTP Ports etc for receiving. If is only POP, for Thunderbird, I will copy my Hotmail in and out to another location for safe keeping. The last time I used POP for Hotmail, I lost half the folders, and had to keep signing on to webmail to check my Spam, and other folders. Are there plans to fix the Hotmail Plugin, to still work, as was, or is this just a coincidence that Hotmail went down on the 2nd of September? Email followed by Instructions for POP & SMTP... Good Luck.. Dear Windows Live Hotmail Customer, You are receiving this note because you have used Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage to view your Windows Live Hotmail®. Microsoft is changing the way these programs access Hotmail e-mail which will require you to take action. To continue to receive e-mail from your Hotmail account, please select one of the alternative solutions below before September 1, 2009. After this day, new e-mail can only be delivered to your mail programs through the following alternative solutions. If you use Microsoft Office Outlook to view Hotmail, you can download free Office Outlook Connector to continue accessing your Windows Live Hotmail within Outlook 2003 or 2007. If you're using Outlook 2002, you will need to change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail. Click here to learn more. If you use Outlook Express to view Hotmail, you can choose to download free Windows Live Mail (recommended) or change the settings on your program to access your Hotmail within Outlook Express. Click here to learn more about your options. If you use Entourage to view Hotmail, you can change the settings in your program to view your e-mail. Click here to learn more. Why is this happening? Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage use a legacy communications method (known as the DAV protocol) to access Hotmail. Because the DAV protocol is not optimally suited for programs to access large inboxes such as Hotmail which now provides users ever- growing storage*, new alternatives have been built. Last year, customers asked us to postpone plans to retire the DAV protocol until more options were available. Now that these options (including the POP3 protocol) are available, we are ready to retire the DAV protocol. Thank you for using Windows Live Hotmail. Sincerely, Your Windows Live Hotmail Team *Assumes a reasonable growth rate. Microsoft respects your privacy. To learn more, please read our online Privacy Statement. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 . Message-Id: <[email protected]> _____________________________________________ Alternatives to DAV if you use Entourage If you currently use Microsoft Entourage to access Hotmail, you can change your settings to use POP3 (POP3, or Post Office Protocol 3, is a protocol that's used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.) instead of DAV. POP3 is another method for Entourage to communicate with Hotmail. Important There are a few differences between DAV and POP3. For example, if you read an e-mail message in Entourage, the message still displays as unread in your Hotmail account on the web. Also, only messages in your Hotmail inbox appear in Entourage. Other folders, and any messages in them, aren't shown. Add a Hotmail POP3 account in Entourage 1. In Entourage, on the Tools menu, click Accounts. 2. Click New, and then click Mail. 3. If the Account Setup Assistant displays, clear the contents of the E-mail address field, and then click Configure Account Manually. 4. In the New Account window, choose POP, and then click OK. Note Don't choose Windows Live Hotmail as the account type. 5. In the Edit Account window, click the Account Settings tab, type the following Hotmail account information: * In the Account name field, type a name to identify your account. * Verify that Include this account in my “Send & Receive All” schedule is not selected. * Under Personal Information: o In the Name field, type your name. o In the E-mail address field, type your Windows Live ID (for example: [email protected]). * Under Receiving mail: o In the Account ID field, type your Windows Live ID (for example: [email protected]). o In the POP server field, type pop3.live.com. If you don't see the POP server field, click Cancel and go back to Step 2. o In the Password field, type the password you use with your Windows Live ID. o Click the Click here for advanced receiving options button. o Select the This POP service requires a secure connection (SSL) check box. o Verify that the default port is 995. If it isn't, select the Override default POP port check box and type 995. o Verify that the Always use secure password check box is not selected. o Close the advanced receiving options. * Under Sending mail: o In the SMTP server field, type smtp.live.com. o Click the Click here for advanced sending options button. o Select the SMTP service requires a secure connection (SSL) check box. o Verify that the default port is 25. If it isn't, select the Override default SMTP port check box and type 25. o Select the SMTP server requires authentication check box. o Select the Use the same settings as receiving mail server check box. o Close the advanced sending options. 6. On the Options tab, select the Leave a copy of each message on the server check box if you want to see your messages when you use Hotmail on the web, on your mobile phone, or in another e-mail program. 7. Select the Delete messages from the server after they are deleted from this computer check box. 8. Click OK. Your account has been created. Create a schedule to send and receive messages 1. In your main Entourage view, on the Tools menu, click Schedules. 2. In the Schedules window, click New. 3. In the Name box, type a name for the schedule, (for example: Hotmail Send and Receive). 4. Under When, create a new Repeating Schedule with a frequency you want. 5. Under Action, on the pop-up menu on the left, click Receive Mail, and then in the from pop-up menu, click your Hotmail POP account. 6. Click Add Action. 7. In the new row, click Send All on the pop-up menu. 8. Click OK. 9. To test your schedule, on the Tools menu, click Run Schedule, and then click the schedule name. 10. Your e-mail messages will be downloaded to the Inbox under On My Computer. Note Existing rules you created for your Hotmail account (under Rules on the Tools menu) won't work for the new POP3 account. You'll need to re- create them as POP account rules. Related topic About alternatives to DAV if you use Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage :-( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. 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