Thank you for your answer alanrf. But I'm using Linux, so Windows Live
Mail is not an option for me.

But, I still can't understand, why I can't switch to Windows Live
under the WebMail option.

On Sep 7, 9:41 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only way you will get an IMAP experience with Hotmail (now that
> Microsoft has terminated WebDav access) is to use the Windows Live
> Mail client.  With that email client Microsoft allows their newer
> proprietary DeltaSync access which provides the IMAP type experience.
> You cannot have IMAP for Hotmail with Thunderbird as the mail client.
>
> On Sep 6, 12:23 am, abbotxie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > it's stiil not working for me. I switched the Dev to Windows Live, but
> > I still get the message "login to the server localhost failed". And
> > it's weird, after I got the error, in the preference of Webmail
> > Hotmail it will change back to Dev. Does anyone have the same problem?
> > Any solution? Thanks!
>
> > P.S I use imap in webmail hotmail. And I don't like the solution of
> > pop3 with pop3.live.com, I want to be able to use imap with my hotmail.
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