Hotmail's (Livemail) POP service is probably the best option now for most users. Some people accessing their mail using their employer's systems may find that firewalls block access to Hotmails POP servers, they will want to continue with the extensions. Others may want to download mail from folders other than the Inbox on Hotmail, they will also need the features provided by the extensions. POP, by definition, can only download from the Inbox on the server, other folders are invisible to the POP protocol. I think that it's unlikely that Microsoft will do a U-turn and start charging again for POP (or POP-like access as Webdav was), but you never know. I agree, Webmail Author has worked and still works very hard to provide and maintain these extensions. A job made harder by service providers who don't want people to use their services in this way.
disc_over wrote: > A very clean solution... now live.com provides POP/SMTP server access, > as gmail does. We have been waiting this since.. can't remember ^_^ So > no need for a hotmail plugin for TB. > Just two comments: > 1) I hope microsoft doesn't turn POP to a paid feature, which wouldn't > be surprising, though it would be also a very bad move in favor of > competence (gmail service) > 2) We should be very thankful to the author for the work he or she had > done with webmail extension. I 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
